MP3s Library Organization

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MP3s Library Organization

OK guys.. after expressing my frustration in a previous post when I found out there’s no ID3 tags backward compatibility between Traktor and Traktor Pro, a serious dilemma came to my mind… I need to re-organize my huge collection.

Every once in a while this particular issue comes to my mind, but I guess just thinking about all the work and time involved… drives me away.

Just so you get an idea… I have a 4 x 1Tb drives full of remixes, of various genres. My collection is organized in the following way:

Root folder contains several folders, based on genres:

  • HipHop -
  • Club -
  • Tribal -

Then within those, sub-folders of each album. Songs have been analyzed by XmixedInKey and Platinum Notes, therefore have the key and BPM at the en of each file name.

So a folder structure would look like this:
E:- HipHop -\Mariah Carey - Touch My Body (Remixes) [2008]

And the songs structure would look like this:
01 - Mariah Carey - Touch My Body (Ean Golden Club MIx) - 8A - 130.mp3
02 - Mariah Carey - Touch My Body (DJTT Famous Mix) - 8A - 130.mp3

So.. you get the idea. I believe this keeps my collection organized, and looking clean, besides allowing me to keep full albums. Now… since my collection keeps growing every week, keeping this organizations takes a LOT of time from my part, and there’s also a big amount of songs I have not had the time to hear.

A friend of mine suggested to get rid of the albums folders, get rid about the track numbers, hear the tracks, delete those I don’t like and just keep the songs that are really worth… this will allow me to keep just the hottest tracks, minimize disk space ,etc.

So if I were only to keep the “Ean Golden Club Mix” of the song previously posted…
I would move the track to the root folder and delete the Mariah Carey - Touch My Body (Remixes) [2008] folder. It would look like:

E:- Hip Hop\Mariah Carey - Touch My Body (Ean Golden Club MIx) - 8A - 130.mp3

I am still not convinced this is the route to go… what do you guys suggest?
How are you organizing your collections? I know many of you have smaller collections due to only one or two genres, but I have many, though making it a huge collection.

I also ripped my original CDs and Vinyls to MP3s so I could have more space, etc.

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I’d say organize them in keys, and that’s it. Since you should really know all your mp3’s and if you don’t you have too many. just use mixed in keys.

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And then create 24 folders for your different keys.