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[jackofallgeeks]

So, I'm trying to re-sort my music. The way I have had it is one big folder (aptly named 'The Library') with all of my files listed as Artist-Title. This is actually a bit unweildy and hard to maneuver, since we're talking LOTS of songs, all filed together, and the names run together after a while; it's easy to misplace songs.

I thought about splitting them up into subfolders of The Library by Artist; unfortunately, there's a bunch of artist I only have one song for (and giving them a whole folder seems excessive), and it seems redundant, as each song is already denoted by artist. I also thought to do them by genre, such as techno, rock, alternative, country... What I'd like to do is sort them by archetype, such as 'Angry', 'Happy', 'Melancholic', but that's almost more difficult than trying to sort out rock, alternative, punk, and emo...

Anyways, I'm curious -- for those of you who have songs laying about, how do you file them? Alphabetically by album release date? Sorted by Record Label? Categories of 'Good', 'Bad', and 'Why Do I HAVE This?' Or are they just randomly placed around where ever you happened to drop them?

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[metis2be.livejournal.com]

The way I have mine is split into genres. It's a pretty annoying system, some time a band seems like one thing and sometimes something else, but I can do whatever I want, so it's cool. The problem is so much of my music I’ve never listened to, I just went straight down a ftp site so I have some really random stuff, which ends up in my uncategorized folder being the biggest one I have. The more vague the categories, the easier it is to split them into. Still, despite all the flaws, it works well enough for me, and I have over 5,000 or 6,000 mp3s ^^;