Music Library Organization

Ok, I have a question for everyone here: How do you organize your music?
Do you use Itunes(or w/e) and have all your music files in one large folder?
Do you organize your files into folders by artist, by album, or by type(mp3/wav/wma/flac/ogg)?
Also, what do you do about artwork - Windows XP folders can take a custom image, and MP3 files *can* have artwork embedded in them.
What do you do about music tracks gotten from different sources, and differences in tagging(for example, an album off Jamendo is not going to be tagged the same as one off Itunes)?

Also, if you buy a physical CD, and rip it to some file format, do you put those files with ones you don't have a physical copy of, or do you use a separate system for them?

What about multiple file formats - Say you keep files as OGG, but your MP3 player can only handle MP3/WMA - How do you handle the multiple sets? Also, what if, to save space, you encoded your MP3 player music as a lower bitrate?

Filenames - how do you organize them? track - Title? Do you always use two-digit numbering (i.e. 02 12 15 03)? Also, what about title-capitalization - do you use all lowercase, all uppercase, first-letter capitalized, first letter of each word capitalized... what?

Also, what about MIDIs, project files(like if you made/edited the track yourself), and album data(lyrics, information, booklet-scans)?



I need to figure out a really good way to store all my music, and so I am asking these questions to get some ideas.

-RobbieThe1st

My Music... then various categories.

Classical, Film Albums, Personal, Voice Recordings, Sound Effects, Funny, Rock, Clansite Music, etc...

Within those, another category. For example, film music will be broken down into movie folders, classical broken down into composers, rock broken down into artists.

Within those, the various music, usually no track number, just the name of the song.

I just use itunes and a big folder.

When I need to find song, I just search for the artist/song name etc

iTUnes has a search feature, I just bang all my files/downloaded albums(normally has its own folder) then import it into iTunes.

Idk, its shoved in the music folder and I pick it out when I want.

Its alphabetical though (because windows did it)

One big folder.
In this order -
Song Name - Band Name

Yahoo Jukebox is awesome I have one big folder with everything in it then I make my own playlists for like moods I am in I have a folder for music friends share with me I have Artist playlists also I have created my own radio stations for myself I list the artists I want to hear within about 6 stations plus they have stations available to listen to as well I listen to the fan playlist alot too


I keep most of my playlists private but have two that I share

Highly reccommend Yahoo Jukebox Subscription I can sign in on any computer and it is there not just on my home pc Like at work or the library or at a friends house Anywhere

I use iTunes, it's great when it comes to files arrangement and putting your songs in the order you wish.