Organize your music

[aegis]

I use headphones to download my music from newsgroups, which automatically looks up the musicbrainz.org info to download the correct albums in flac. once the files are downloaded I run a program called Beets which looks up the ID3 tags on musicbrainz.org according to audio fingerprint or meta en folder data writes the correct info to the file, and change the folder layout to match the metadata.

this all happens automatically with out my input, in headphones i only have to add the artist or album i want to download.

MOD: The above links are to github and are free to download although donations are accepted

[ghost5]

This is how I organise my music:

Top Level Folders

[Albums]
[Compilations]
[Podcasts]
[Singles]
[Unsorted]

Then under there for albums & singles I have
[Artist] / [Album Name] / Track Number Title

And for compilations it is just
[Album Name] / Track Number Title

The reason I split it up is because in the past when I used the itunes structure on my android phone it would annoy me when I wanted to randomly play a album but it would pick a single instead and like wise a compilation. The unsorted folder is there for when I've quickly added some music just before I go out and haven't had time to tag it correctly.

Multi disk albums are a pain though. I don't know if this has changed but the disk number field was not a proper ID tag and is something that Apple made up so a lot of music players don't know it exists and ignore it. I also don't like splitting the album up into [CD1] [CD2] [CD3] folders.
What I do is start the track numbering at 101 for disk 1 and 201 for disk 2 etc and also name the files based on this. I also name the whole album with the same album name, even if CD2 has a special name. This keeps all of the tracks in order both in Windows and playlists and works with every music player that I've come across, including Windows Media Center and the 'offline' android subsonic app.

Finally the reason I only name my music with track number and title is because in the past I have run into problems with long file names when having the artist name in there.

I use mediamonkey to rip my music and then tag & rename to change the information to my liking and to add cover art.

Edit: I also make sure that all compilations have the album artist set as 'Various Artists' and that with multi CD albums I still fill in the disk number tag.

[BKKKPewsey]

SS does appear to use the disc# tag <TPOS> (but not displayed) so if you have all the tracks in one folder it will sort correctly.

[ghost5]

It does if you are connected to the server but not if you play the files locally on your android phone.
The main reason for me numbering the tracks as 101, 201 is becuase windows media center does not read the disk number