How do we organize our music folders ?

[AUDIODIDAKT]

btw. Is it possible to get a album discription in each album folder is there a db that does that ?  because with movies I can

Like the one below ? yes. Has been broken for a long time, but will be back in 0.9z-3.

Yes thats nice, but now I want a txt file in every music folder, because well, the dedicated audio-pc would be off-line

[PeterSt]

I don't understand ?

[PeterSt]

My albums are like D:\Music\Jazz\Frank Zappa\1971 - Hot Rats.

No redundant data and easy to find.
For the option 2 possibility I would recommend an option in the tree to open all branches at once.

Aha ! See, this would already be a "golden" solution. That is ... I assume you meant "option 1", so your structure would expand to all the underlaying albums at once - *if* there is something to expand, or otherwise they keep close. See my own (good messy) example, and watch e.g. ACDC and Achoustic Alchemy (don't forget the Aart album at the bottom of that Acoustic Alchemy list).

I think this can be done ...

[AUDIODIDAKT]

ah, its a .html file, its a web page, is it possible to get that data in a txt file, so the pc can stay off-line.
or can this page be used offline, will this remain in memory.

Or is it just me!

Can Discogs be intregated too ?

[PeterSt]

Can Discogs be intregated too ?

Theoretically yes. But there's no efficiency in there (far too few on board; for dutch people it would be good though (IIRC)).

or can this page be used offline

Yes, of course it can !
See the picture I added later to the post where the html attachment is in. It's just stored in the album folder (if you want).

[AUDIODIDAKT]

Thought so, because its just a offline webpage.

GOOD, to see that back and working, thnx

[Calibrator]

hey Peter,

I use folder structure no. 1

I don't need to put the artists into genre's as I know the style of music each artist I have falls under, and sometimes an artist may have albums that span different genre's and that would just add another layer of complexity trying to figure out where to put them.

When choosing music for listening I tend to focus on the actual artist I want to be "entertained" by, rather than having a "rock" afternoon, or perhaps a "classical" evening.

If you are thinking of having the renaming based upon internal tags, please make that a de-selectable option, as data provided by CDDB and their kind don't always fall into line with how I like things. An example of this is the year field. Quite often it's depicted as year of release, whereas I normally use the year of recording. I also haven't bothered tagging my music for a number of years now since XXHE was released.

I normally append the year of recording to the album name just for reference. I would not want the year data as a prefix as it makes it harder to find a particular album if they are sorted by year order.

Cheers,

Russ

[AUDIODIDAKT]

Yes, the year would be a problem as I also like the recording date not the release date.

Doing things in mass and make use of tags is to risky, make use of the folder names would be better.
We must asume that the folder names are the correct ones not the tags.

[AUDIODIDAKT]

Or mass tag your music files using the info from the foldernames for eg.

[PeterSt]

Roy, I'm not sure how to see that related, although you may be right. Now, in order to have this all decent (meaning not loosing anything, and don't make a mess of it), can you show me an example (preferrably a screenshot) of where you think that will go wrong with those "singles" ?

[AUDIODIDAKT]

I removed the messages of aart and the massive attack example,
because this wouldnt be a problem, if you rename within the folder, so you never loose a folder.

What i ment is that if you rename YOUR complete example folder to option 1, the aart album outside the acoustic alchemy folder will "drop" IN the acoustic alchemy folder, this is good !

So no problems, so far

But then again, Tag&Rename does this too, so what would be the "extra" in this for xx ?

[AUDIODIDAKT]

I mean, whats your goal ?

just adding those 2 rename options from the first post can be handy, though, with some kind of "mask"

[AUDIODIDAKT]

But if you only rename within the folder, you dont solve the problem.

you will go from jazz\artist\year - album to  jazz\artist\artist - year - album

what you want to get is this: jazz\artist - year - album

This can only be done if you loose the folder above, in the massive attack case this would be the "singles" folder.
if you loose the singles folder, you mix-up the albums with the singles.
accually you need to loose 2 folders nl. singles and massive attack, to get on the artists-level of: electronic\massive attack - year - album (electronic\massive attack\singles\year- album)

Hope this makes sense, think not

[AUDIODIDAKT]

btw this is my Cuetools Template:

Y:\Music\%artist% - [%year% - ]%album%[ - %edition%]$ifgreater($max(%discnumber%,%totaldiscs%),1, - cd %discnumber%,)[' ('%unique%')']\%artist% - %album%[ - %edition%].cue