How are your music files organized?
 

I need ideas ....because I have music everywhere in my docs...and it's crazy...I need to find a good organizing method :3 so share yours! [please ^^-]

I just put all my songs directly from my CDs to my mp3 player. I think I only have 2 or 3 mp3s in the 'My Music' folder on my computer right now...><;

But I'd just go By Artist and then By Albums/Singles in subgroups (By Name)inside those folders....

Here's a good example:
Ayumi Hamasaki (Folder in My Music)

Albums (Folder in Ayumi Hamasaki):
-A Song For XX (Folder in Albums)
-I am... (Same)
-MY STORY (Same)

Singles(Folder in Ayumi Hamasaki):
-And (&) (Folder in Singles)
-appears (Same)
-CAROLS (Same)
-INSPIRE (Same)

Mine goes like this:

My Computer -> D Drive -> My Music -> (Big list of Artist) -> Albums(folders) -> Tracks

Video:

My Computer -> D Drive -> My Video -> (Big list of Artist) -> Concerts/PV -> Video

I use the crappy program Ares, and it somewhat has my songs in order. Just by artist thouh, so my ayumi folder and a few others are gigantic and have no order to them

i do the samething...........but i use the pic on the album cover as an icon so i know what is what........



i put every thing ayu realated (pics,music,pv,clips......ect) in a folder called ayu and sub folders

I used to sort everything just by artist and plunge every song into just one folder per artist so I wouldn't have dupes. Got really annoyed with that though as I'm a completist and I hate having incomplete stuff. So right now I have only full albums and singles and such (leave for a folder called APop that has some individual songs by artist), which are organized as:

My Music > A > and then the albums by artists with an A alphabetically

And then so on for every letter and a folder called +Various Artists+ which has compilations and such. I added the +'s so it's automatically on top.

Like acimahs, I use cover pics on the folders so it looks cool. Like this:

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Works fine for me.

If you have single mp3's of different pplz this is wht I do. I name a CD called New CD 1 and put as many a CD can hold hten burn it... Its not the best but I like my method. :yes

I just have one big folder and I throw all my music in there in alphabetical order!

But I don't have a lot of music now. When I have more I typically make folders for a few of my favorite artists that have more mp3s, otherwise everthing else is lumped in one folder. Oh, and usually I'll have one seperate folder for videos too.

the pic idea is interesting ^_^

You're pretty anal, Sven. :laugh

For me, I just have things organized by artists.

Program Files > Ares Lite Edition > My Shared Folder > mp3s > Artist > tracks

Program Files > Ares Lite Edition > My Shared Folder > Videos > Artist > video
Except, with my Ayu videos, I have them organized in these catgeories:
ayupan
Behind the Scenes
CM
Concerts
DVDs
Making of
Performances
PV
Young Ayu

I'm not very organized.

I try my best. :laugh

I just throw everything in a folder. I used to organize but I don't even listen to my old songs anymore.

My songs are organize by Country>Artist>Album or Single. I always add a picture to the folder. Quite simple. It's very easy to find what I want. *I love to organize things* I'm crazy Xpppp lol
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hahaha. :laugh what a international village!
but thats a great idea. :yes

wow, haha. nice :D

cool :O! ^

anyways, great ideas everyone :), I mostly like sxesven's, BanFan's, and Acimahs's ideas :) mooore ideas :D!!!

I put everything (MP3s, PVs, lives, etc) in one big folder. But, I do have a sub folder for lyrics and one for pictures and photobooks. =)

I love the picture folder idea... I may have to copy that :)

haahahaha I eventualy dicovered that I could add pics to the folders. lol It's very useful to find albums without reading all the names. \(´¬`")>

desktop >> music >> albums
jus ave them as folder names...
singles that i get, usually go to my "recieved files" on msn...
and i put singles on my desktop, untill i feel like cleaning dem, make a new folder.. put dem in, then in the map albums...
but the pic idea is nice yah

H:\My Documents\My Music\{Artist}/{Album/Single}/

I dont have too much music on the computer so this does me fine.

Annoying problem lol.

Desktop >> My Mp3's >>My songs (I share with my sister)

I keep a folder with albums and a folder with just random MP3's. Then another folder of Old Songs, just in case I get in the mood to hear somethin old, or If I get tired of a song, i Move it there.

Works nice if you use winamp. Too many folders bug me >< I just keep really organized by giving em proper names. *Artist - Title*

After few years of trying to sort my music, I've found this system to be the best, have a look:

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I don't like many folders - Artist, album/single. So I'm using this very simple system. Artist album/signle/vinyl - Title. And when I want to play all these files in winamp, I just use right click on the button "open", then choose that folder and thats all :)

About the picture thing I don't know why my mp3 folder shows a picture of Mariah Carey when I don't have any of her files or pictures in the folder...

Anyway, I just go
C:/Mp3/Artist Name - Single/album name

If it's just misc. songs from an artist and there's several of them, I'll just create a folder with just the artist's name.

And there's a:
C:/Mp3/C-pop misc
C:/Mp3/J-pop misc
C:/Mp3/English misc

Just to put songs of an artist I only have one or two of.

Then there's:
C:/Mp3/Radio Pre-release
For radio/PV rips and such.

I'd like to organise it more...but I'd mess up all the links and have to put everything back onto my winamp list.

I use iTunes to keep everything organized. I just make sure the mp3s are tagged correctly and iTunes puts them nicely in Artist/Album/## - song.mp3 order. Easy and efficient.

wow! cool, how do you put the Letters in between the songs?

My Documents->Music->Ayumi *Sorted by name*
I keep them all in playlists in Windows Media Player

Correct, but I liked this one better. :laugh

Oh, thanks :)
Right click on the folders background, view, details. And then right click again, manage icons, view in groups. But it works only in Windows XP.

Thank you! so much!

Everyone as well! thanks for your input :3

My Documents/My Music/Music Archive/Artist Folder/Album or Single Folder/etc.

It's primarily stored that way, but recently I've been using iTunes more just for convenience (I actually don't like the program though.)

:thumbsup Me too! It's a good way to keep organized your files and find them easily.

I use iTunes too. I really recommend this to everyone because not only does it keep everything organized, but it has a quick search function for all of us with massive mp3 libraries. People w/ single MP3s can just make playlists as well if it's not inlcluded in an album.

since my mp3 lists got english/japanese/korean/chinese.......etc
i organize by

D:> Japanese> (folders in alphabetical orders) > (album/single title)
then
D:> Japanese(new ones go here..usually monthly) >(date) Name - Title (single/album)
..and then the same with the other languages

and a seperate folder for Trance/Techno/HardTrance only

hmmm... itunes does all my organizing for me assuming you're using their CDDB option.

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my music files are oraganised into different folders for albums

and i also have a misc folder for ayumi's remix songs i dunot know

I went ahead and copied the picture idea anyways :P

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I always burn the files in CD, and I put all CD with a code. I have 400 CDs so I create a database to organize my files.

Here is what I have
Total CM = 1274 files
Total CD(Album/Single) = 594
Total TV live = 439 (MPEG2, HDTV MPEG2, HDTV TS only)
Total PV DVDVOB = 130 (All DVDVOB MPEG2)

a1strank that's cool :3 I don't know if i'd want to do that >>; too many folders...soo many albums X_x :P