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jackofallgeeksSo, 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?
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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Date: 2004-10-21 05:42 pm (UTC)I start out with four categories:
Comedy
English, Misc.
Italian
Japanese
That sorts the music by music-not music, and then the different languages I primarily listen to music in. English, Misc does contain some songs in Spanish, Gaelic, etc...languages in which I don't typically listen to music. Since I have rather a lot of Italian and Japanese music, I think they're worthy of their own categories.
Under English, Misc. I start setting things up under artists by whom I have more than five songs. Since I have rather a lot of these, I also have the sub-categories of
Celtic
Folk-Rock
Game Music
Oldies (pre-1980's)
Rap, Hip-Hop, R&B
Techno, Electronic, and Dance
In these sub-categories, I place artists that fit in them, ie
Celtic - Enya, Loreena McKennitt
Folk-Rock - Ani DiFranco
Game Music - Silent Hill, The 7th Guest
Oldies - ABBA, Stevie Wonder
Rap, etc - Aesop Rock, Eminem
Techno, etc - Lo Fidelity Allstars, Moby
Also, I like to keep certain soundtracks together, ie, the Matrix soundtracks, so I have a seperate folder for Matrix music, Lord of the Rings music, etc.
A good deal of my music remains uncategorized, either sitting in English, Misc. or in Techno, etc., but I manage to keep everything pretty well organized this way. Hope all that didn't hurt your head.