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-- How to organise your trance mp3s

Posted by Aquascape on Apr-17-2005 22:29:

How to organise your trance mp3s

I used to organise my trance mp3s like this:

Ferry Corsten > System F > Original tracks
> Remixes
> Gouryella > Original tracks
> Remixes

Which WAS fine.

Now I have a lot of CD/Vinyl singles on my hard disk which can't be organised in such a way because additional remixes by other artists are included. At the minute I am split between the old method and the new method which involves organising by CD titles. I therefore don't have a system, so I can't always find what I want easily.

There's probably no solution and itll just come across like I'm having a whinge, but I just thought it was worth a try to get other peoples' opinions.

Posted by Fresh Prince on Apr-17-2005 22:52:

I'm crazy about dates, but name is important too so you need to include both somehow, so what I do for example is
A 2002-06-17 Armin van Buuren - Sunburn
and if it's a remix, it's simple too
R 2002-07-06 Riva - Time Is The Healer (Incl. Armin van Buuren Remix)
I know it's probably not perfect, but it works for me.

Posted by Phil r on Apr-17-2005 22:56:

my live mixes are by DJ, then date, in CD-sized directories.

Posted by meLon on Apr-17-2005 23:06:

Artist/Album/## - Trackname.xxx

For live shit...

[Live]/Artist/MMDDYY - Location - Name.xxx

http://www.neoretro.net

Posted by nss on Apr-18-2005 01:44:

Re: How to organise your trance mp3s

quote:
Originally posted by Aquascape

I have a small collection and i cant be arsed to do it so i just pile my songs in the same folder... works for me but you obviously wont like this method

Posted by PlasticSoul on Apr-18-2005 03:27:

I separate traxs only for artist names, I dont make folder for each aliases...
and a root folder for artists with so few trax...

dont forget"!
try'n'buy...
rofl.

Posted by humilis on Apr-18-2005 05:33:

quote:
Originally posted by meLon
Artist/Album/## - Trackname.xxx

I use iTunes. It does that automatically.

Posted by sigmanova on Apr-18-2005 05:38:

Artist-Title.mp3

folders are organized similarly but with year. Artist-Title-Year All with proper underscores and such and such

Posted by r5a on Apr-18-2005 05:40:

I have alot of albums and digial downloads, my ID3 tags are all messed up, and im trying to find a program that reads from the filename and puts that in the ID3v2 tag. Anyone know of a program that does this?

PHP:

Mp3 name: Arist - Title [Remix]

Rather complex, filenames are fine and complete, just gotta get them into the IDv3 tags, hence my question above.

Posted by Ariah on Apr-18-2005 07:23:

yeah i would like that as well ^

Posted by Aquascape on Apr-18-2005 07:46:

quote:
Originally posted by PlasticSoul
dont forget"!
try'n'buy...
rofl.

Hehe well I have an mp3 player in my car so most of my CD collection is now on my hard disk

Posted by Dickie-T on Apr-18-2005 11:37:

i spend 20 hours a week sorting and renaming my mp3s in this format:

Artist - Track Title (Name Of The Remixer Remix).mp3

then i have a directory structure like this:

2001
Subdirectories: TRANCE-HOUSE-CLUB-COMMERCIAL VOCAL-HARDSTYLE
SubSubDirectories: 1 Average-2 Good-3 Very Good-4 My Playlist

2002
Subdirectories: TRANCE-HOUSE-CLUB-COMMERCIAL VOCAL-HARDSTYLE
SubSubDirectories: 1 Average-2 Good-3 Very Good-4 My Playlist

2003
Subdirectories: TRANCE-HOUSE-CLUB-COMMERCIAL VOCAL-HARDSTYLE
SubSubDirectories: 1 Average-2 Good-3 Very Good-4 My Playlist

2004
Subdirectories: TRANCE-HOUSE-CLUB-COMMERCIAL VOCAL-HARDSTYLE
SubSubDirectories: 1 Average-2 Good-3 Very Good-4 My Playlist

2005
Subdirectories: TRANCE-HOUSE-CLUB-COMMERCIAL VOCAL-HARDSTYLE
SubSubDirectories: 1 Average-2 Good-3 Very Good-4 My Playlist

Posted by Philby on Apr-18-2005 12:27:

quote:
Originally posted by Dickie-T
i spend 20 hours a week sorting and renaming my mp3s in this format:

Artist - Track Title (Name Of The Remixer Remix).mp3

mine are like that too. i just have 3 folders, one for dance singles, dance livesets and other singles. nice and easy

Posted by Litheon on Apr-18-2005 12:43:

I organize my mp3's on the year.
I find that already so many work that i'm not going to sort them on different things, and for sets it's easy, everything in that folder that is bigger then 50mb is a set...

Posted by Sincerest_Sheep on Apr-18-2005 16:11:

quote:
Originally posted by r5a
I have alot of albums and digial downloads, my ID3 tags are all messed up, and im trying to find a program that reads from the filename and puts that in the ID3v2 tag. Anyone know of a program that does this?

yep, its called quintessential player and can be found at www.quinnware.com

its the best player around and best of all, its free!

Posted by E-vangelist on Apr-18-2005 18:24:

I sort mine by size then reverse alphabetical

Posted by meLon on Apr-18-2005 18:47:

I use something called "Media Tagger" to fix my tags. I highly recomend it. You can convert filenames using tags, or grab tags from the filenames. It's very flexable and smart and allows you to preview changes before you do them. :]

Posted by djdimensions on Apr-18-2005 18:49:

quote:
Originally posted by [PCO]sigmanova
Artist-Title.mp3

folders are organized similarly but with year. Artist-Title-Year All with proper underscores and such and such

have a folder for every artist

singles go in one folder
cd go in another
live sets in
and compliations go in one

Posted by Project 7 on Apr-18-2005 18:58:

Artist Name
^^^
Singles<>Livesets(If any)<>Videos
Trackname<>Year<>Trackname

Posted by Rhand on Apr-18-2005 19:11:

Got 4 maps.

Trance (Not the right name actually cause everything electronically goes in the map :P)
Livesets
Rap & Hiphop
Other Music

Musicfiles are named like this:

Artist - Track Title (Name Of The Remixer Remix).mp3

Livesets like this:

Artist Live @ location year (Ex: Paul Van Dyck live @ Mayday 2004)