slyk

Get album >> drop folder of album into Music

I mean sometimes I'll go the extra step and make a folder for the artist/band and drop all the album folders of said artist into its folder, but other than that, I am lazy.

crukster

masturbationally.

Guybrush

Reading the latest posts in this thread, I think some people are missing the point.

Try reading the first post!

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Carded

I think the main advantage of using specialized software before just “putting in right folder” is the interface and the ability to choose and playback wanted song instantly.
As The Virgin said:
Even in this case the program can read ID3 tags and sort such a mess by Artist or Album or other criteria.
Besides this, as for me, information about album or artist is important, so I chose the program, that downloads it and shows while playback. Unfortunately, such “intelligent” software is rather rare.

Carded

I wonder has anybody tried to test Musicnizer and to add an album to the database by the barcode? It is claimed on their website that it works with a web camera. I don’t have one and I’d like to know whether it recognizes albums fine.

Carded

My friend gave me his webcam for a couple of days, so I’ve been playing with it. Tried “barcode scanning” function, works fine. Sometimes you need to put an effort to make it scan, but normally it goes without a problem.
But now it's another question: how to disable downloading of so many pictures. I have a traffic limit and can’t find this setting…

GuitarBizarre

My folders adhere to this format:

D:\My Documents\My Music\Captain Dan And The Scurvy Crew\Rimes of the Hip Hop Mariners\05. Captain Dan And The Scurvy Crew - It's All About the Booty.mp3

Soundtracks, Classical music, OCRemix stuff, my "Assorted" folder (Individual tracks where I don't want or can't find the full album) and a large Psytrance Collection I have, they all have their own folders, so the format there runs like this:

D:\My Documents\My Music\Soundtracks\Baccano\Baccano! Original Soundtrack - Spiral Melodies\13. Yoshimori Makoto - Abikyoukan no Kurutta Butai.mp3

All downloads get their tags checked and updated, and any extra tags that the ripper has added get removed. I don't do anything about album art because I don't have a use for it. I never use it for reference, I don't have a convenient method of finding it, and I'm not going through 280GB of music manually adding album covers into the relevant folders just so I can ignore it entirely. Some of my music has it in the folders, some of it has it in the metadata, none of it is there through my intervention.

Also, I manually add Disc Number and Total Discs to all my music, even 1 disc albums have those fields filled in. If an album has multiple discs, I put each disc in its own folder and update the metadata to append "[Disc x]" to the album name. I also change the filename format from "05. Captain Dan And The Scurvy Crew - It's All About the Booty.mp3" to "1.05. Captain Dan And The Scurvy Crew - It's All About the Booty.mp3"

The reason I do that last thing is because it ensures that when I just use library view to add my whole music collection, it appears with the discs in order, rather than having both discs in a single folder, which results in BOTH first tracks appearing, then both second tracks, etc, one after the other. Obviously thats a pain if the album is a double disc and you want to listen start to finish, like War Of The Worlds.

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Mrd00d

Captain Dan is sick.... Yahrrrr :P

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Guybrush

Wow, a proper on-topic post on file organization .. Thanks GB

One thing I don't like is putting information in places where it's not supposed to be. For example, you put disc number in album title. In my collection, the total amount of discs and the number of any particular discs is stored in it's own tag. My sorting script makes sure they appear in order.

My collection is bigger than yours and I'm happy that I have album art for just about everything in there that I could find it for. Often, I have grabbed it manually, but I've also had scripts that downloaded it for me. With foobar, that's easy - and so is sorting your music by any tag you like - but what media player is it you use?

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That’s why I began my search for automatic organizer software. Didn’t want to make it all manually so I found a way for a lazy one I retrieved all needed covers and info with Musicnizer in one click and wished everything in my life could be so easy