[mythtv-users] Best strategy for organizing MP3s for MythMusic?

[James L. Paul]

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On Monday 15 December 2003 13:20, Dale Weber wrote:
> On Monday 15 December 2003 12:57 pm, Romel Llarena wrote:
> > Curious to know what file
> > organization strategies are out there.
>
> 	I organize my music in directories - the only practical way to do it, IMO.
>  I go by artist, album, and song for my setup.
>
> 	8-Dale

I use tags, not directory structure. I find it more practical and flexible. I 
have a straightforward artist/album/title directory structure, which makes it 
very easy to manage the files, but all my files are tagged with category and 
genre information as well. This is very flexible and practical, and really 
cuts down on my need to make tons of playlists.

For example, I can go straight to "Keola Beamer" and play one or more of his 
albums, or I can just as easily play all music tagged as "Slack Key Guitar" 
which will play all the songs on all the albums I have of slack key 
guitarists.

All that is required is to pick a consistent tagging scheme and tag all your 
files. Under Linux, I find easytag to be a great tool for that. Then set up 
mythmusic to use the tags appropriate for your tagging scheme.

I have also run all my ogg files (I don't use mp3) through vorbisgain to tag 
them with loudness information to be used by the player to play everything 
back at a consistent volume. (This is better than normalization, and more 
effective.) So far is seems that mythmusic's player does use these tags, but 
I haven't convinced myself of that yet. I need to do a test with some files 
that have dramatically different volumes and see if they are indeed adjusted.
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