Original Saku 1593 Posted May 3, 2016 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 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Chi 2624 Posted May 3, 2016 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 new fold 1 Original Saku reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
platy 3018 Posted May 3, 2016 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. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
paradoxal 2948 Posted May 4, 2016 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! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gekiai 231 Posted May 4, 2016 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 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
diryangrey 121 Posted May 5, 2016 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.... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Komorebi 2193 Posted October 6, 2016 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. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
d4rkie 5 Posted November 21, 2016 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. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Valicious 572 Posted December 12, 2016 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. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
chemicalpictures 1888 Posted December 12, 2016 Music folder/Artist Name folder/Y.M.D - Release Name folder\In case of multiple discs or scans folder Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
oxbxjxe 39 Posted December 24, 2016 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) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
