Digital Collection Organization

Always Band>Album>Song
If I have demos for an album I put it in the album folder
Singles get their own folder

What do you do if two bands have the same name?

>>70627860
you gotta preface the album with the release year

>>70628131
What about remasters?

band/[year] album/ song

>>70627932
for example, if two bands are named Bleacheater, you'd go by what year they were formed, like:
Bleacheater [1981]
Bleacheater [2004]
That's how I would do it at least

>>70628147
I use the original album release year since the music reflects the year, not the remastering

>>70628432
That's fair

>>70627860

eyetoonz does it for me

(Band) -> (year) - (Album) -> (track #) - Title

I only separate collaborations if they're listed as "x and/& y" and not "x with y," as the latter suggests it's the effort of x primarily with y's contribution; in that case, it goes in x's folder and the addition is noted in the title.

I sometimes add my own info to folder/track titles, and I use square brackets exclusively for that. Usually just what kind of release it is if it isn't a studio album, i.e. EP, live, bootleg, compilation, etc. If a band goes through name changes but it's mostly the same, I include the original name here too and keep the album in a collective folder. (Steven Wilson's album "The Joke's On You," released under the name Karma, is in his folder as "The Jokes On You [as Karma]" for instance.) I'll also include the quality of a bootleg recording if It's listed on the site I got it from, otherwise I don't worry about it. (I'm not going to grade it myself.)

The same bracket scheme goes for tracks too - hidden tracks, live bonus tracks, demo versions, etc. If the title is in another language, I'll try to get either a translation or English pronunciation for the first part, with the original language in parenthesis afterward.

I've never been formally diagnosed with autism.

>>70629459
I like this

Artist/Artist - Album (year) [format]/track Artist - Song

>>70629057
Itunes fucks up the quality of your music

Fuck having music on your computer

Even if you record it, do it analog you plebs

>>70629557
What about artists who only release digitally?

>>70629591
Put the song file straight onto a CD yourself, don't use any programs and then listen to it from a CD player

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>>70629656

>>70629669
every program for playing music on a computer I've ever known alters the quality of the actual song
Itunes compresses it
That's why they say if you record something on Logic or Garageband, audacity, reaper or Protools or whatever don't export it to iTunes, burn straight on to a CD

>>70629719
I've never heard of that. Your DAC would take care of everything just fine if you're using the same data on the same system

>>70627860
hey my fellow mint user

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>>70627860
no organization, i really screwed myself

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>>70629764

>>70629057
same desu, I just make sure all the metadata is up to date.

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Genre/Album/Song. There's a seperate folder for songs that were the only ones that I liked in their albums, which have a lot of files randomly thrown in.

MP3tag to organize all my shit.

>>70629459
>I've never been formally diagnosed with autism.
Kek. Music is easy man, trying to organize my 4chan folder made me want to kill myself.

>>70629806
As long as it's tagged right, foobar can sort that out for you with file operations.