How do you organize your music files?

Zarko · 04-19-2010, 08:12 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Conan

tsk tsk...

I actually have a very similar approach. It's just a windows explorer folder like yours, but I have all of my albums in it arranged for example like...

50 Cent - Get Rich or Die Tryin
A.B Cretsil - The Osooku Stars

etc

I tried ages ago, and if you go up one folder it contains the majority of my albums which have been organised to some fair degree eg

But one day, approximately a year ago, I created the mystical '-01' folder, in which all zipped downloads are unzipped into, possibly for future organisation. That day has never come, and I doubt it ever will (Currently has 23GB worth of albums in there

)

~~someonecompletelyrandom~~ · 04-19-2010, 08:19 PM

Haha, i've got the same thing. It's called ZX - The Processing Bay ... I thought the name was pretty badass. My main folder for all my music is called "The Vault"

Seltzer · 04-21-2010, 08:26 AM

Bad news for me. Rockbox isn't supported on iPod Classics so I'm stuck with bilious iTunes and its single genre restrictions (amongst other things)! And it's got me thinking that I wouldn't mind working on the Rockbox project but I don't think I have enough hardware knowledge (my degree is software oriented).

Btw, I've been using your script today Tore and it seems to work pretty well. The only modification I've made is adding .replace('&','%26') so that it can handle artists/albums with ampersands.

And so far, the genre categorisation at discogs.com seems to be reasonable except for when it comes to metal. They don't consider it a top-level genre so that means that every metal band gets tagged with Rock whether it's Burzum, Wormphlegm or Stratovarius. Occasionally ambiguity causes amusing genre tagging such as Death - Human being industrial/power electronics and Freak Kitchen being house.

Now to wait ~20 hours for another 5000 hits (not to sound like a crack addict).

Guybrush · 04-21-2010, 08:33 AM

Ah, brilliant idea Seltzer

I'll add that to my own. Glad it could be of use!

I've noticed on a few occasions, it's done a search for artist and album with the script where it found the wrong album and then tagged it with wrong genre and styles. This is a problem with the genre / style scripts I merged and modified to make my own and I'm not sure how to get past it. Anyways, if you see Burzum tagged as disco, you know something's up!

edit :

Thinking about it, it should be easy to modify the script so that it works better with compilation albums. Just make a copy of the script and make it use %album artist% instead of %artist%, then if you tag VA compilations with "Various Artists", try to add .replace('Various Artists','Various') .. Oh, and change the title of the script!

edit :

The modifications would be in this bit :

Code:

artist = handle.Format("[%album artist%]").replace('Various Artists','Various').replace('&','%26')

noise · 04-29-2010, 10:00 AM

how do you guys tag disc names?

lots of box sets have disc names. like New Order's Retro box, or Bjork's Family Tree...

Seltzer · 04-29-2010, 10:17 AM

With regards to tagging, I ignore the special disc names so that they're treated exactly like unnamed discs. I do acknowledge them in their folder names but that's almost completely irrelevant given that I use Foobar.

noise · 04-29-2010, 10:54 AM

how does using foobar make it completely irrelevant?

Seltzer · 04-29-2010, 11:05 AM

Sorry, that was a bit vague and I should have clarified it (that's what I get for posting at 4 am).

Back in the day, I used to play music by navigating through hierarchies of folders and selecting the mp3s I wanted to listen to (the barbarian approach as Tore calls it

), so the folder structure was crucial. Now that I'm using Foobar, I rely entirely on tags for structure and for music metadata in general and I rarely use folder structure view, so the fact that I acknowledge special disc names in the folder names is irrelevant. The only reason I still include them is for the sake of consistency.

So how are you dealing with named discs atm?

noise · 04-29-2010, 11:51 AM

ah, ok

well i used to add the disc name to the %discnumber% tag in foobar, but it's not very practical since most of the time the tag is just filled with a number. so if i want to display it anywhere, i need a big space.

so i switched the name to the %comments% field, which i'm not so happy with, but i can't think of anything better. which is why i asked here

Guybrush · 05-02-2010, 02:01 AM

I did like you, noise, except I added it to it's own tag instead of comments. I call it %subtitle% for now as I figured it's a title, but lower down in the title hierarchy.

I realize using too many custom tags can get a bit troublesome to keep track of after a while though.

04-21-2010, 08:26 AM	#73 (permalink)
Seltzer Fish in the percolator! Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Hobbit Land NZ Posts: 2,870	Bad news for me. Rockbox isn't supported on iPod Classics so I'm stuck with bilious iTunes and its single genre restrictions (amongst other things)! And it's got me thinking that I wouldn't mind working on the Rockbox project but I don't think I have enough hardware knowledge (my degree is software oriented). Btw, I've been using your script today Tore and it seems to work pretty well. The only modification I've made is adding .replace('&','%26') so that it can handle artists/albums with ampersands. And so far, the genre categorisation at discogs.com seems to be reasonable except for when it comes to metal. They don't consider it a top-level genre so that means that every metal band gets tagged with Rock whether it's Burzum, Wormphlegm or Stratovarius. Occasionally ambiguity causes amusing genre tagging such as Death - Human being industrial/power electronics and Freak Kitchen being house. Now to wait ~20 hours for another 5000 hits (not to sound like a crack addict). __________________ In the Court of King Crimson \| Last.fm \| RYM

04-21-2010, 08:33 AM	#74 (permalink)
Guybrush Juicious Maximus III Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Scabb Island Posts: 6,525	Ah, brilliant idea Seltzer I'll add that to my own. Glad it could be of use! I've noticed on a few occasions, it's done a search for artist and album with the script where it found the wrong album and then tagged it with wrong genre and styles. This is a problem with the genre / style scripts I merged and modified to make my own and I'm not sure how to get past it. Anyways, if you see Burzum tagged as disco, you know something's up! edit : Thinking about it, it should be easy to modify the script so that it works better with compilation albums. Just make a copy of the script and make it use %album artist% instead of %artist%, then if you tag VA compilations with "Various Artists", try to add .replace('Various Artists','Various') .. Oh, and change the title of the script! edit : The modifications would be in this bit : Code: artist = handle.Format("[%album artist%]").replace('Various Artists','Various').replace('&','%26') __________________ Something Completely Different

04-29-2010, 10:00 AM	#75 (permalink)
noise thirsty ears Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Boulder Posts: 742	how do you guys tag disc names? lots of box sets have disc names. like New Order's Retro box, or Bjork's Family Tree... __________________ my flac collection

04-29-2010, 10:17 AM	#76 (permalink)
Seltzer Fish in the percolator! Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Hobbit Land NZ Posts: 2,870	With regards to tagging, I ignore the special disc names so that they're treated exactly like unnamed discs. I do acknowledge them in their folder names but that's almost completely irrelevant given that I use Foobar. __________________ In the Court of King Crimson \| Last.fm \| RYM

04-29-2010, 10:54 AM	#77 (permalink)
noise thirsty ears Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Boulder Posts: 742	how does using foobar make it completely irrelevant? __________________ my flac collection

04-19-2010, 08:19 PM	#72 (permalink)
~~someonecompletelyrandom~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Nov 2008 Posts: 4,538	Haha, i've got the same thing. It's called ZX - The Processing Bay ... I thought the name was pretty badass. My main folder for all my music is called "The Vault"

04-29-2010, 11:05 AM	#78 (permalink)
Seltzer Fish in the percolator! Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Hobbit Land NZ Posts: 2,870	Sorry, that was a bit vague and I should have clarified it (that's what I get for posting at 4 am). Back in the day, I used to play music by navigating through hierarchies of folders and selecting the mp3s I wanted to listen to (the barbarian approach as Tore calls it ), so the folder structure was crucial. Now that I'm using Foobar, I rely entirely on tags for structure and for music metadata in general and I rarely use folder structure view, so the fact that I acknowledge special disc names in the folder names is irrelevant. The only reason I still include them is for the sake of consistency. So how are you dealing with named discs atm? __________________ In the Court of King Crimson \| Last.fm \| RYM

04-29-2010, 11:51 AM	#79 (permalink)
noise thirsty ears Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Boulder Posts: 742	ah, ok well i used to add the disc name to the %discnumber% tag in foobar, but it's not very practical since most of the time the tag is just filled with a number. so if i want to display it anywhere, i need a big space. so i switched the name to the %comments% field, which i'm not so happy with, but i can't think of anything better. which is why i asked here __________________ my flac collection

05-02-2010, 02:01 AM	#80 (permalink)
Guybrush Juicious Maximus III Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Scabb Island Posts: 6,525	I did like you, noise, except I added it to it's own tag instead of comments. I call it %subtitle% for now as I figured it's a title, but lower down in the title hierarchy. I realize using too many custom tags can get a bit troublesome to keep track of after a while though. __________________ Something Completely Different