How Do You Sort Your .MP3's??

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  1. Aenygma

    Aenygma Member

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    Hi,

    Ok I would like to know how most people sort their music collection.
    Here is what I am asking.

    Is your music folder set up like this-

    Aerosmith - (Then ALL their music in that folder)
    Billy Joel - (Then ALL his music in that folder)


    Or like this-

    Aerosmith - Dream On
    Aerosmith - Jaded
    Aerosmith - Walk This Way

    Billy Joel - An Innocent Man
    Billy Joel - My Life
    Billy Joel - Pressure

    One other question.
    Does anyone use MediaMonkey? Is it a recommended piece of software to do all my tagging with. Currently I use MP3Tag

    Thanks.
     
    Aenygma, Dec 31, 2008
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  2. Mez

    Mez Active member

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    I use mp3tag to do bulk tag editing and when using freedb or Amazon as a source. MM does these processes as well but not as easily. I use Media Monkey (MM) if I want to use filenames of folder names as the source. I have not tried the script that uses the folder name as a source. I discovered that only rescently. The UI for MM is far superior when using the file name as a source.

    I organize first by a few types. In the biggest type the tunes are organized by artist/album/tune. Some types do not lend to the other structure such as sound tracks and VA collections.

    With large librarys the less complicated structure will hurt performance and will be cumbersome to use. Once you get over 1000 objects in a folder performance degrades quickly. If you think you will never have more than 1,000 albums you can use either method.

    From MM you can pick several sorts.
     
    Mez, Dec 31, 2008
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  3. kmp_tm

    kmp_tm Guest

    I tend to gravitate towards RealPlayer or iTunes.

    I don't like iTunes much, but you can Consolidate Libarary to get a nice, structured list

    Artist > Album > Songs

    And RealPlayer, you can move all music into nice little folders, and sort however you please.

    I have no experience with MediaMonkey, sorry.
     
    kmp_tm, Jan 1, 2009
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  4. scorpNZ

    scorpNZ Active member

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    At the mo a mix of folders from cd's i ripped & a stack of mp3's all jumbled so to speak,it's not until i got my xbox 1's modded & saw what xbmc can do that i've installed the OS version into all my computers,tho i have'nt set the music up in xbmc in the comp's yet when i do all i can say is holy crap this is brilliant & why don't microsoft forget their version of it on the 360 & use this one instead
     
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  5. olyteddy

    olyteddy Regular member

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    Meh. Organizing them is a PITA so I name them 'SongTitle - Artist - Album.MP3' and keep them all in a folder called 'MP3'. Works for me. I use WinAmp to sort and select them as needed.
     
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  6. zonedout

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    I sort my folders like this

    My Music
    Aerosmith - Album Name [Year]
    Aerosmith - Album Name [Year}
    Aerosmith - Album Name [Year]
    Billy Joel - Album Name [Year]
    Billy Joel - Album Name [Year]
    Billy Joel - Album Name [Year]

    I used to do it the other way with a sperate folder for each artist but I find this way more convenient now especially in Vista which has all the sort and search tools right there in the folder
     
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