How Do You Organize Your Music?

[Original Saku 1593]

Well I used to divide by asian and western music, then artists, then releases. but I I got so behind on tagging music that I just have random "new folders" just chilling in my music folder each with hundreds of un-tagged/un-categorized releases...

 

 

it's pretty bad, but I would have to work on tagging and organizing, and that could take months

[Chi 2624]

10 minutes ago, Original Saku said:

Well I used to divide by asian and western music, then artists, then releases. but I I got so behind on tagging music that I just have random "new folders" just chilling in my music folder each with hundreds of un-tagged/un-categorized releases...

 

it's pretty bad, but I would have to work on tagging and organizing, and that could take months

 

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[platy 3018]

All my music is just dumped into a folder for the year I downloaded right now. But I keep everything in .zip files to save space since most of it is on my ipod.  When I organise my folders I sort the files by artist, with the year of release either at the end or start of the file name. 

[paradoxal 2948]

I used to have my music collection separated into East and West folders, but since then I've completely ditched my West folder because I so rarely listen to anything other than visual kei.

 

I usually organize my collection first by artist, and then by album. I try to keep my folder names in romaji only, so that I can write file paths without too much hassle. My syntax looks pretty much like this:

F:\Musiikki\Purple stone\[2014.11.26] Amazuppai mango (Limited edition)

 

I use Foobar2000, so I usually fix the tags and add album arts right after downloading something. JAM, the skin I'm using, just looks so ugly without album arts but absolutely fabulous with them.

 

I must've spent thousands of hours organizing my music collection... And still it isn't finished XD But at least most of the stuff I regularly listen to is super neat!

 

 

[gekiai 231]

All of my music is on a large flashdrive.

 

And honestly my organization is getting quite questionable now...

 

I organize by

 

Year > Month > Album or Single > Songs

 

And by these dates, I don't mean release dates I mean days that I actually downloaded or ripped them 

[diryangrey 121]

i wonder if i'm the only one who does this, i love B-sides but hate having so many singles in my iTunes or playing thru them 2 tracks at a time, so i take all an artist's B-sides from a set of years and arrange them into a custom album....
so i'll have like the 'album' Vermilion by ナイトメア, and it'll look like
 

Spoiler

1- Love Addict
2- Romeo
3- Rover
4- Trauma
5- ByeBye
6- Star Spangled Breaker
7- Dazzle
8- Ugly Duck's Will
9- アイリス
10- Paranoid
11- Rubbish
12- Honesty

and i'll do the same w/ rereleases, unplugged vers, and demotapes....

[Komorebi 2193]

Music 

 - Instrumental stuff

 - j-pop

 - western pop 'n' stuff

 - western rock 'n' stuff

 - non-vishual jrock 'n' stuff

 - "sexy vishual chinese-boys" (in spanish. yes, I am aware they aren't chinese)

 

Then subdivide those folders by artist name, then album. I don't bother with dates, though half of my downloaded files already included the date.

 

I keep videos somewhere else.

[d4rkie 5]

Using Apple's ecosystem right now (iPhone, iTunes, AirPlay)

 

I have a special Windows setup to tag and manage the music I get/buy.

Most of the software I'm using is pretty dated and needs Windows to run: 

- QMPlayer for Gracenote lookup (needs to be in a format QMP can read and tag)

- foobar2000 for conversion from anything to ALAC/AAC

- MusicBrainz Picard for tagging

- mp3tag to copy/paste tags between files or just fix the tags in old files

 

My day to day machine is a MacBook Pro, hence I use some OSX tools too:

- XLD to rip the CDs (can use iTunes' lookup data, musicbrainz or CDDB)

- vox/XLD to convert from obscure formats to ALAC/AAC

- Metadatics to edit the tags

 

btw, if you're a fan of j-music, use XLD on OSX (or cdparanoia on linux) to rip old CDs from big japanese labels. some of them have rootkits to prevent audio ripping on windows.

[Valicious 572]

I put all mine on a bookshelf, but I also have a 'Master List' spreadsheet.  The Master List has fields for band, release, SKU, condition notes (OBI or no OBI, PV DVD or not, etc), then what shelf it is on.  

[chemicalpictures 1888]

Music folder/Artist Name folder/Y.M.D - Release Name folder\In case of multiple discs or scans folder

[oxbxjxe 39]

I have a folder structure with the following form:

 

Music

>>Japan

>>>>Anime

>>>>Doujin

>>>>Jpop

>>>>Jrock

>>>>Visual Rock

>>>>>>1. [Bands]

>>>>>>2. [V.A. Omnibus]

>>>>>>3. [Zipped]

>>>>>>4. [V.A. Couplings]

>>>>>>5. [Lossless rips]

>>>>>>6. [TEREKO]

 

And rename the files as follows:

[yyyy.mm.dd] album title / artist - album title - track number - track title.mp3 (flac or m4a)