I don't mean physical things like cds or vinyl, but mp3's and such.


My music is pretty messy. I get my music through warez and some torrents, and usually leave the files in the folders they were downloaded in, then move it to the My Music folder.

All in all it's very illogical and disorganized.


What about you?

I try and keep it pretty organised, I'm almost anal about it.
In My Music I have it sorted up into the artists, then their albums sorted by year and then the songs inside named by track number and name.
IE: My Music > Black Sabbath > 1972 - Vol 4 > 06 Snowblind
I hve all tags filled and I try and have the album art for all of it, but I can't always find it.

My CDs I have arranged alphabetically by artist after I got bored one day and had nothing better to do.

My CDs are just stacked up in piles.

My digital stuff is organised meticulously, each album in it's own folder with full tags and album art, naming scheme etc.

My Music is just folders full of properly organised deathcore albums.

Then I have one "Various Artists" folder for everything else.

I like suprises, so I tend to have it fairly random.

i don't download music, so when i save my cd's to the computer, it alphabetizes and does all that shit for me.

i try and keep it organized by artist's last name but its such a bitch to change the directory in my torrent program so there are a bunch of albums that havent been sorted yet

For the sake of quick browsing (my computer hesitates a bit when you open a folder and it has to load hundreds of others right away) I have it separated alphabetically into four folders (A-G, H-M, N-S, T-Z), and then basically the usual.. A folder for each artist that contains folders for each album.

And of course the obligatory folder for various songs when I don't have the whole album for whatever reason.

For a long time I only kept it that neat and organized for the benefit of other SoulSeek users, but I've become used to it now. It's pretty easy to keep up once you've started.

My music collection is spread throughout many random folders on my hard drive. It all shows up nice and pretty on my itunes though. Thanks to TuneUp (http://www.tuneupmedia.com/).

I spent twelve hours organizing 30 gigs of music. Lyrics, album covers, etc.

It's probably not a good sign that I took that as an accomplishment.

Organized by genre, then bands.

Ive got 1200 unique artists across 36,000 songs and itunes has it organized by artists name in one folder. Now that lags a decent computer ill tell you hwhat.

Mine's all in one big folder, named *artist* - *title*. They've been stripped of all ID3 tags except for artist and title with MP3Tag, which can automatically rename files according to the tag. No nasty numbers and lowercase letters here...I'm a bit OCD with my music.

I browse it using Foobar2000's music library, organised by artist.

I need to find a different way of doing it now my music collection has grown to a few hundred artists though. Genre sounds like a good idea.

I just have mine in a folder tree going Music -> Artist -> album/random songs

Ive got 1200 unique artists across 36,000 songs and itunes has it organized by artists name in one folder. Now that lags a decent computer ill tell you hwhat.
My current computer couldn't even think about holding that much music. I have to go through every month and delete a bunch of albums, or I'll be out of space and unable to get new music.

It's quasi-organized, the songs with their appropriate bands, for the most part. I just have several massive folders with a bunch of albums in it, nothing like it used to be when I used Limewire. With that, I just had one folder with a bunch of mp3s, most of them were badly tagged. Now that I use torrents its much better, since my torrent client just puts the songs into an album folder as soon as it begins downloading.

im OCD about mine


Music > Artist > (year) album name > track number - song name - artist


everything properly capitalized and fully tagged, sorted alphabetic order except albums which are sorted in year they were released from oldest to newest

I'm probably one of the most unorganized people out there, but my music is something I like to keep semi-organized in itunes / mediamonkey (which is 800x better than itunes, just doesn't have that Genius bullshit.)

I download most of my music through torrents because it actually has the correct id3 tags or w/e so that when I use Tag and Rename sorts the info out and shit and makes it so that the song titles aren't like "Track Number, Track Title, Artist, Album" I fucking hate that. I just want to see the name of the song, not the track number, I don't give a shit about that. It can't be in all undercase or capitals either, each word in the song title has to start with a capital, then go to lowercase.

Its the only thing I'm basically OCD about, if I can't get all the information for a song in its tag so that it can be sorted then I won't put it on my ipod / in my library.

iTunes is all. A lot easier with the search function for me, keeps my analness programmed.

I have four folders on my desktop. One is Artists A-J, one is artists K-P, the third artists Q-Z, and the fourth folder is random single mp3s that don't fit into my colleciton. Artists that I only like one or two songs from end up in the fourth folder.

The three alphabetically organized folder's interiors are arranged alphabetically by artist, then Each artist folder has various albums in it, which are sorted by release date.

And it all goes on itunes.

i got em in alphabetical order.I've got six folders A-C D-F G-I J-L M-P Q-Z.I have one folder called band music that i keep classical, jazz and marching band music in
that's pretty much it

Limewire > Unorganised iTunes

genre > artist > album

Lone songs in their own file
Downloaded albums in their own files

For the sake of quick browsing (my computer hesitates a bit when you open a folder and it has to load hundreds of others right away) I have it separated alphabetically into four folders (A-G, H-M, N-S, T-Z), and then basically the usual.. A folder for each artist that contains folders for each album.

And of course the obligatory folder for various songs when I don't have the whole album for whatever reason.



My post was oddly similar to yours.

All Music torrents are downloaded to a music folder and I use Cog to browse through that and find an album I want. All V0 or FLAC.

After downloading MP3's into a temporary folder I'll rename the file by artist and song, e.g. "Sublime - What I Got.mp3" and then move it into my desktop Music folder, which is where my WMP library comes from. After that it's always organized by artist, and then the songs are either by album or in alphabetical order - depending on the artist. For instance I think The Beatles and Pink Floyd were album-based artists where its best to listen to the whole thing, whereas for other artists it doesn't really matter - the latter's songs are in alphabetical order.

Are you guys actually filling in the tags by hand/making the folders and cut & pasting the music into it?

There are programs that do that shit for you, google it.

Sorted in iTunes by album in alphabetic order. Everything starts with a capital letter and since getting a touch, all the album artwork is there (almost).

The actual music folder is on an external HDD, I let iTunes do whatever it does in there.Whenever I add something new I consolidate the whole libary to keep everything in one place.

It's very tidy.

This. I can't say how useful it is. I used to fill in tags and rename files by hand until I found software that could do it for me...

MP3Tag is free and can do a lot of tag/filename operations automatically. I use it for any new music that comes in to remove tags I don't want and clean up the filename.

I would like to find a program that simply organizes my music that i can then delete cause i'm not sorting through 30+ gigs of music completely randomly sorted

I tunes organizes it for me.

I like CTTS :)