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My audio is a bit of a mess for now, except for the live material. Here's how it's set for now (Downbeat is all Ambient-Space/Chill Out stuff and Upbeat is all "Club" material or any material that can be danced):
C:\ADMIN\Audio\Electronic\Downbeat\Albums\(Artist Name)\(Album Name)\CD Number\(Tracks are in here, with this format: 01 - Artist - Song name). For "Various Artists" albums, I make seperate folders in the ...\Albums folder called "Various Artists (Compiled by [Name]).
It goes the same way with the Upbeat directory for albums. For live material, I have a folder labeled "Live Bootlegs" in both the Upbeat and Downbeat folders. In there, I just have all of the long files in this format: Artist - Date in YYYY-MM-DD format - Live at (Event name)
I name tracklists after the MP3 files and put "tracklist" at the end of the name. For the A State of Trance series, I have a special format: A State of Trance - Episode ### (YYYY-MM-DD) - (Artist name) - Part #.
I'm thinking about simplifying all of this by just getting rid of the Upbeat/Downbeat thing because many artists make BOTH now. Also, for single tracks, I have a folder labeled "Singles" and I make sure that "The" does NOT come before the name of the artist (like "The Thrillseekers". I rename those files to "Thrillseekers, The - TRACK TITLE") because in English, "the" isn't a word to sort by.
Here's what the new directories ar going to look like:
...\Audio\Electronic\Albums\Artist Name\Album Title\CD # - CD Title (Like CD 2 - Bright Side)\MP3s, CUE files, TXT files (tracklist/information) of the tracks of the album. CUE and TXT files will be named in "Artist Name - Album Name - CD # - CD Title" format.
...\Audio\Electronic\Live Bootlegs\Name (depending on the circumstances, this can either be in "Artist - YYYY-MM-DD - Live at (Event or Location) - Part number" or "Title (like in series) - Episode, Segment, etc. number (YYYY-MM-DD) - Artist - Part, Hour, etc. number" format. Examples here include: "DJ Tiesto - 2002-02-02 - Live at Dutch Dimension - Part 1" and "A State of Trance - Episode 42 (2002-04-04) - Armin van Buuren - Part 1".
...\Audio\Electronic\Singles\Name (Either in "Artist Name - Song Title" format or "Artist Name, The - Song Title" format)
As far is the organisation of the singles is concerned (hundreds to thousands of tracks in one directory), I'll be making Winamp Playlists (M3U files) so, that I can play specific material in a certain order. I'll title those in either this format: 00 - Playlist - Artist Name - Order Name (examples here could include Chronological, Vinyl/CD/Cassette/DAT/MD/DVD/etc. title, etc.) Or this format: 00 - (Genre) Singles - CD ##.
I'm doing all of this so that it's easier to for people on DC and other places to find all of my material. For other genres, it'll follow either the same (for albums) or a VERY similar structure.
I hope this was easy to understand, however there was really NO easy way for me to put it, as all of what I said above applies to the way I organise my audio. If anyone can't understand, I'll just create a legend and label everything using simple 3-or-less-letter abbreviations (for here ONLY, not on DC, etc.).
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