[mythtv-users] Moderately OT...How do you organize your music?
Robert Johnston
anaerin at gmail.com
Thu Feb 5 17:28:14 UTC 2009
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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