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The Joker:
I have my music folder, and all my music is in there, organized alphabetically by artist, album, and track number. The file name is just the song name, no artist.
Moo Cow:
--- Quote from: jeph on 27 Feb 2009, 00:18 ---itunes does everything for me.
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In all honestly, I totally agree. All I really need is Itunes, and Last.fm also i have Time Machine to backup my music.
MrBlu:
--- 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 couldn't possibly do that.
sunexplodes:
--- Quote from: Hat on 23 Jul 2009, 16:28 ---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
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This what I'm leaning toward, something simple like this, I just have trouble with a lot of bands really overlapping genre.. Oh well. I'll figure it out, and I won't have to retag, as I'm pretty anal about using the artist/album/songtitle/date/tracknumber convention as the ONLY tags I use.
Fuck it, I'm giving it a go. Not like I can't go back.
Zingoleb:
--- Quote from: Touch Me Im Sick on 23 Jul 2009, 16:19 ---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.
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I fucking hate m4a formatting because I've run into so many incompatibility issues with it. I realized once a couple years ago that everything I was ripping was m4a and promptly switched over to mp3, and then had to convert several thousand songs into mp3.
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