How organized are you with your music files?

[Incog Neato]

Completely random topic! I just found myself thinking back to the Direct Connect hubs and how some people were scary organized.

Anyway, I'm semi-organized, I think, in that I don't just throw every album and such into one single folder. ^^;

How do you guys arrange your directories/folders for your music files? :o

I pretty much have two partitions dedicated to music -- one for game music and iTunes stuff and the other for everything else. ^^

The MUSIC partition is roughly like this:

extractions ->
==> iTunes rips
==> iTunes convert
==> stuff to burn onto CD (I rarely use this directory anymore since I have mp3 players)

incoming ->
all music downloads go here first!

MIDI ->
used to have a bunch of MIDI in here but now there are only 4 tunes. ^^;

music-backup ->
==> friend music (i.e. stuff created/sung by friends)
==> game music (this is sorted by series, company, game title, or composer. ^^ For multi-disc soundtracks, each disc gets its own folders. I also have a bunch of stray tunes that didn't fit anywhere or I was just too lazy to sort.)

The BUH_OTTERS partition has all the non-gaming stuff which is sorted alphabetically by letters by the first name of the artist group (^^). Then there are the following folders:

4chan_insanity
anime
classical
Homstarrunner
karaoke
movie_tv_music_broadway
songs in Chinese Korean Other languages
various-jpop-jrock
YTMND

Each of those directories may have subdirectories for series, titles, artists, etc. plus a lot of single tracks littered everywhere. XD

[Gamemusicfreak]

For me, every album is in a separate folder, and placed in another folder for whoever composed it. Any rips I have like SPC, HES, or GYM, etc. is also backed up on individual CD-Rs.

[schlagwerk]

categories:
Japanese Music
Music Game Music
Real Music
Video Game Music
Temp (for recent acquisitions that I don't know if I want to keep or not)
to Encode (for recent acquisitions that I'm going to keep but haven't re-encoded or tagged)

At the root of each category are just random songs, entire albums go in a sub-folder under the proper category.
You can tell how long I've had a song by the following chart:
oldest
-no tags. Song is encoded in 128kbps. Artist and title are in file name alone
-tags
-192kbps
-256kbps VBR V0 (only for stuff that I have ripped from a CD myself)
newest

[Mutagene]

I have three folders: one for music downloaded from websites/blogs, one for music downloaded with torrents, and one for music ripped from CDs in 320kbps by me. And I have one for my midis too, if that counts.

I keep each album in a seperate folder in each.

Other than that, I'm not really very organized.

[AllenSmithee]

They're in my torrent folders

[Ashurei]

The only folder that's horribly unorganized is my assortment of J/K-pop mp3s from back when I used to frequent those rotation sites that were once all the rage. Everything in there is titled Artist - Song Title, but albums tags are often wrong or empty, and nothing has it's own folder. That's 1240 files.

Then there's my "Full Albums" folder, which contains all of my rips of music not related to gaming or animu. Those are organized in folders as such; Parent -> Artist Name -> Album Title, unless I only have one album, in which case the folder in the parent is simply Artist - Album Title. I painstakingly made sure everything here was tagged right, complete with album art embedded i nthe file and everything.

Game/Anime soundtrack have their own folder, and are organized simply by title in thier own folders. The only games that have their own subfolder are Falcom ones, since I've got like 30 Falcom soundtracks.

Ah, I lied. There is more unorganized stuff, indeed.
Video Game remixes are simply in this one MASSIVE folder of everything I've gotten from OCR and VGMix over the past... what, 6 years? No organization whatsoever, except in the case of release albums.

Chiptune folder is the same as the remixes one. Very disorganized except in the case of albums. Many cases here, the files are completely untagged as well. Downloaded as-is, if you will.

I've also got this folder set aside for all of the radio recordings of Armin Van Buuren's A State of Trance. I can never catch it on thursdays, so I just download it! I guess that's questionalby legal, but it's a radio show - which was streaming free - so I don't care too much. I actually do go back and listen to old shows alot, though. Alot of times it's my only way of finding specific trance songs I like~

AND THAT IS MY MUSIC.

[Varion]

Not.

I frequently have to do a search just to find any of my soundtracks. They're everywhere.

[Lumi]

Like so:

Music >
Then the following genre divisions:
Anime - J-POP
<<<J-POP
Classical
Comedy
Dance
Disney
Game --- (Mostly by album; extensive series like Final Fantasy get their own sub folder. Falcom has ITS own which is then divided into series, then game/album folders.)

MIDI Music
Movies (Soundtracks go here)
Musicals and Vocalists (by vocalists, I mean folks like Josh Groban, Sarah Brightman, and so on.)
New Age >
<<<Celtic
<<<New Age
<<<World
NEW MUSIC (Unsorted/unlistened to downloads go here)
Rock (Dark Wave and misc pop also go here.)
Seasonal

Ultimately everything is in its own album folder, or some relevant 'misc' folder if the tracks are a few selections.

A few things are unorganized to some degree, but I'm a bit of a stickler as to keeping my stuff well-sorted or I'd NEVER find anything, ever.

[psybuster]

Folder named by band/game/whatever -> folder named by disc/album, singles and miscellaneous stuff I don't care to sort all in the root folder. I don't even bother tagging my stuff, because I never uses playlists or anything, just double click on whatever I feel like playing at the moment.