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Harun:
i think I already said it but I don't think anybody noticed/cared: foobar2000's built in file operations plug-in is so awesome. It's basically a manual version of iTunes' 'keep my folder organized' feature, so it can order/rename your files any way you like.
sunexplodes:
OKAY DUDES I HAVE A QUESTION
My collection which I sort by /<ARTIST>/<YEAR> - <ALBUM> in the folder structure is becoming large enough that I'd like to structure it like /<GENRE>/<ARTIST>/<YEAR>-<ALBUM> but I'm having a lot of trouble with genre distinctions.
I'd like to keep it kind of simple, but not mindnumbingly simple as /rock/pop/hiphop/etc. But it's hard to make the distinctions like post-rock, avant, jazz, shoegaze, etc, without a lot of overlap and shit like that.
Do any of you guys sort by genre? and if so, HOW?
Touch Me Im Sick:
Whatever is on iTunes, is under C:/My Music, in m4a format.
Whatever albums I haven't listened to yet are together in one giant folder on my desktop.
Hat:
--- Quote from: sunexplodes on 23 Jul 2009, 15:07 ---OKAY DUDES I HAVE A QUESTION
My collection which I sort by /<ARTIST>/<YEAR> - <ALBUM> in the folder structure is becoming large enough that I'd like to structure it like /<GENRE>/<ARTIST>/<YEAR>-<ALBUM> but I'm having a lot of trouble with genre distinctions.
I'd like to keep it kind of simple, but not mindnumbingly simple as /rock/pop/hiphop/etc. But it's hard to make the distinctions like post-rock, avant, jazz, shoegaze, etc, without a lot of overlap and shit like that.
Do any of you guys sort by genre? and if so, HOW?
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I've recently had a similar problem and the best way to do it is just go by what genre YOU think they're in, you're going to be the one accessing them so you need to be intimate with the system. Don't overspecialise either, my basic genre distinctions for organizational purposes are "siiiiiiiiiiiiiiick beats", "gee-tars" "beep beep boop" "bubbles and kittens and shit" "funky shit" and "mashups and other", to make the distinction between hip-hop, rock music, electronic music, pop music, funk/soul music and miscellaneous.
Genre lines are so arbitrary that being too specific for the purposes of organising your music library is often pretty counter productive unless you have a lot of spare time and unimpeachable music geek knowledge.
Maybe if you're REALLY keen to do this, just start of with a really simple system like mine (maybe minus silly names?) to begin with, and then as you look at the artists you have in those genres you might intuitively know that certain artists should be split up more and so you can build on that slowly, without the demand of retagging and reclassifying your ENTIRE MUSIC LIBRARY as part of a giant project because you will almost certainly get bored and give up
celticgeek:
I tend to organize by <Genre><Artist><Album> myself, with the genre list kept fairly short:
Celtic
Christmas
Classical
Compilations (compilations I have made)
Country
Flamenco
Folk
Guitar
Humor
Jazz
Miscellaneous
Popular
Renaissance
Rock
ShowTunes
I also have no problem with keeping albums in two different genre folders, such as Classical and Christmas, or Classical and Guitar, for example.
Occasionally it occurs to me to separate a genre folder into two folders within the genre folder, but I actually have never done it.
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