[mythtv-users] Moderately OT...How do you organize your music?

Daniel Agar daniel at agar.ca
Thu Feb 5 17:42:47 UTC 2009


On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 12:28, Robert Johnston <anaerin at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 11:13, Chad <masterclc at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 9:58 AM, James Oltman <cnlibmyth at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> This is my tree for a regular album:
>>>> "Artist or Band Name" / "Year - Album" / ("Optional CD Nr"/)  "Track Nr.
>>>> Artist Name - Song Title.extension"
>>>>
>>>> Loose songs:
>>>> "Singles" / "Year" / "Year.Week Nr"/ "Artist Name - Song Title.extension"
>>> Anyone else?
>>>
>>> Jim
>>
>> I'm a little simpler.
>>
>> For music I know all the information about:
>> Artist / Album / Title by Artist.extension
>>
>> For music I just know artist and title I have a flat directory of:
>>
>> Title by Artist.extension
>>
>> The problem with my method is sorting.  If early on I had decided to
>> be more traditional and use:
>>
>> Artist - Title.extension
>>
>> As I imagine most people do... Sorting by artist in a directory
>> listing would be a no brainer.
>>
>> If you are going to take the time, I'd suggest a minimum of Artist -
>> Title.extension but probably more ideally would be a minimum of Artist
>> / Artist - Title.extension
>
> Personally, I have 3 sections:
>
> Full Albums/Album Artist/Album Name/[Disc #]/Track# -[ Track Artist -] Title.ext
> Single Tracks/Artist/Artist - Title.ext
> Unsorted/Who Knows.ext
>
> So if it's a compilation album, it ends up in:
>
> Full Albums/Various Artists/...
>
> This works well for me, at least.
> --
> Robert "Anaerin" Johnston


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