My music collection is 90% classical so how I organise my HDD folders, filenames, tags is centred on classical.
As the composer is much more important than artist for classical, I have two main folders "CDs by Composer" and "CDs by Performer" (for performer based collections or boxed sets). My usual subfolder structure is principally based on the CDs: - "Composer - Work - Conductor/Main Artist" (e.g. Mahler - Symph No 1 - Haitink) - > CD1 - > CD2 My album names are of actual compositions, rather than the CD albums, e.g.: Shostakovich - Symphony No 10 - Petrenko, RLPO and CDs containing more than one sustantial work I would rip to one folder but retag the Album tags to separate the works. E.g. the Prokofiev Sinfonia Concertante and Cello Sonata Han-Na Chang/LSO/Pappano CD I tagged as two separate "albums": Prokofiev - Cello Sonata - Han-Na Chang, Pappano Prokofiev - Sinfonia Concertante - Han-Na Chang, LSO, Pappano This means that when I search albums on Shostakovich I get all Shostakovich works listed and can see the pieces and performers If there is a collection of smaller pieces on a CD I use a general album name, e.g. Barbara Bonney - 'Diamonds in the Snow' (Nordic Songs) Gabrieli - 'A Venetian Coronation 1595' - McCreesh This system works for me (but the standard recommended setup would not suit me at all). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JohnB's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=31553 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=94014 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/ripping
