05-16-2004, 01:12 PM
Organizing music is one of my main hobbies.
I have a seperate Hard Drive just for music.
The folders in it are...
Cutting Room
Downloaded
Music
Unfiled
The Cutting Room is full album stream dumps from Adobe Audition that I later use Audacity to split into individual songs.
Downloaded is exactly what it sounds like. If it's a free MP3 and the band sounds interesting, or whatever, I'll just put it in here to listen to later. I currently have about 100 songs in here
Unfiled is where the songs from Downloaded go once I've decided that I like them enough to keep. I start slapping proper ID3 tags (incredibly important that all songs in Music folder all have the same ID3 system) on them and making sure they work from start to finish.
Music is the end result. Inside are 27 folders, one for each letter of the alphabet (plus #). Inside each of those directories is a subdirectory for each artist or band, and then inside of each of those folders, there will be folders for more or less complete albums, or just MP3 files themselves.
When you have almost 5000 mp3's and about 4000 of them don't fit nicely into "genres" you kinda giveup on that idea. Music is music.
I have a seperate Hard Drive just for music.
The folders in it are...
Cutting Room
Downloaded
Music
Unfiled
The Cutting Room is full album stream dumps from Adobe Audition that I later use Audacity to split into individual songs.
Downloaded is exactly what it sounds like. If it's a free MP3 and the band sounds interesting, or whatever, I'll just put it in here to listen to later. I currently have about 100 songs in here
Unfiled is where the songs from Downloaded go once I've decided that I like them enough to keep. I start slapping proper ID3 tags (incredibly important that all songs in Music folder all have the same ID3 system) on them and making sure they work from start to finish.
Music is the end result. Inside are 27 folders, one for each letter of the alphabet (plus #). Inside each of those directories is a subdirectory for each artist or band, and then inside of each of those folders, there will be folders for more or less complete albums, or just MP3 files themselves.
When you have almost 5000 mp3's and about 4000 of them don't fit nicely into "genres" you kinda giveup on that idea. Music is music.
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