music How do you organize your music

[Envy 6,162]

I only have about 50Gb of music, but it's organised as: Music -> [Genre] -> [subgenre] -> [song information]

 

The collection is small enough I can just search for each song or artist if looking for something in particular, and since each subgenre folder is read as an album, I can play it as if it were its own playlist.

 

Only 50GB of music?! That's twice as much as I have!

[SombrasCourtMusician 55]

 

 

Only 50GB of music?! That's twice as much as I have!

About 4.5 Gb are Fandom music and the rest are the musicians I listen to on a regular basis. I have all my music on a shared hard drive with a group of friends, and together that is about 470Gb. 

[Blackened 512]

My CD collection is arranged randomly, but I put all of the artist's albums together in chronological order.

[Pastel 7,630]

I have over 500 songs but I sort and listen to them by artist.

[Kylo Ren 58]

Oh my GOD. I'm OBSESSIVE about this.
I have an individual folder for every single band I listen to. In addition, I have a separate one for all the Star Wars music in my library. That one gets the most playing on daily basis, so I always have it handy on my desktop. Everything else is neatly organized as sub folders within a music super folder.

Edited May 18, 2015 by Kylo Ren

[Haven Celestii 9,385]

Genre is my biggest way to go about my music. I have playlists with all (or at least what should be all of that specific genre) of the music in that genre and at least like, 7 or so different playlists with at least one or two similar genres in it. Like, my Electro/House/4/4 has everything from progressive house to Electro to Big Room to Melbourne. I split Jumpstyle/Hardstyle/Hardcore/Gabber and its other variants off due to the speed and general sound difference. Same would apply for Dubstep/Drumstep/Liquid Dubstep and DnB/Drumstep/Liquid DnB etc.

 

Pony songs are generally mixed in with their respective genre areas unless I'm going to specifically listen to that one exact album at that time.

[Scootaloodle 1,622]

Well it depends on format:

 

With MP3 and digital, I have a folder with the artist name and I put the artists song’s in the specific folder.

 

With vinyl I separate them by genre, and have a certain shelf for records of a certain genre.

[DJ Onex 1,674]

Sorted by genre and then by Artist.

 

[Pastel 7,630]

The problem when sorting by genre is that sometimes, it's hard to tell what genre is a song... :s (plus there are so many genres)

[Tom Snyder 4,112]

I just play them all at once, so i'm not concern in what order they are.

[SpiderDiscord 145]

The problem when sorting by genre is that sometimes, it's hard to tell what genre is a song... :s (plus there are so many genres)

Yeah true! ...so my original idea to orgagnize by theme might be better

 

I just play them all at once, so i'm not concern in what order they are.

I would, but hitting skip when not in the mood for a sertain type too often isn't fun

[Tom Snyder 4,112]

I would, but hitting skip when not in the mood for a sertain type too often isn't fun

Yeah, but its all music i really like; so no problems on my end,

[SpiderDiscord 145]

Yeah, but its all music i really like; so no problems on my end,

I do like all mine too, I just get picky if in a certain mood or doing a certain task

[Kyoshi Frost Wolf 41,478]

Mine is mostly just alphabetized, though I do want to start organizing the music on my laptop by artist specifically. On a mobile device I like the more random artist nature of it being in alphabetical order.

[Blue Moon 6,341]

I have everything sorted by artists, but I do have a few playlists for albums. I do, however, have a playlist that contains all my electronic music.

[Princess Periwinkle 3,775]

I always organize my music by date downloaded, because I'm usually more interested in listening to what I more recently put on my computer than the older stuff.

[Ashen Pathfinder 16,161]

@@SpiderDiscord

 

Just letting you know I moved this to Media Discussion as it deals with music; also added the Music prefix.

 

Thanks.

[Raritas 6,820]

Honestly, I just let ITunes sort my music out for me From there I pick an order I want. It's manageable and keeps all your music in one convenient place.

[A Black Circle 1,586]

There is no organiazation. There is only chaos.

[Guest]

I just let Spotify organize my music. Pretty simple. 

[Knight Hadron 372]

There is no organiazation. There is only chaos.

Chaos is a wonderful thing! But did you know you can organize chaos?

 

Edit: Actually, a better wording would be "did you know you can have organized chaos?"

Edited May 23, 2015 by Knight Hadron

[The Plum 10]

As of Comiket 85, by the albums' respective events they were released at. If they were not released at Comiket or M3 or some other kind of event, they're just floating around together.

[catnet 9,356]

I... don't. I used to organize my music by its origins, but now, I don't even bother to do that; it doesn't matter that much to me either way, since I don't switch around what I'm listening to very often. :l

[TimeyMarey007 110]

I organize my music by the subject.

 

My Windows Media Player playlists are classified as:

 

• James Bond: Basically, all 007 theme songs. Well, I classify this as the theme song to the movie, so all other 007 music goes to the Other playlist. (Example: a-ha - The Living Daylights)
• Brony: Fan music made by bronies. Never added a new song since 2013 or something since I can't find any good songs. (Example: The Living Tombstone - Discord)
• Other: Basically, everything else. Includes other 007 songs, theme songs to other stuff, and totally random songs I like. (Example: Kraftwerk - Autobahn)

[Paianis 489]

I have two directories: 'Albums' (for songs that are part of albums) and 'Artists' (individual songs with no album link). The Albuns directory is relatively consistent; inside there is a list of artists with their own directories, opening one will reveal more directories of albums for that artist. The only exception is compilation albums, I put those directly on the Albums directory with no artist affiliation.

 

The Artists directory on the other hand, has the usual list of Artists inside them, but beyond that it becomes a mess; not all songs have artwork, some have instrumentals and stems, some have their own directories but not all. I also never bothered to update the metadata so in a media player some tracks can be impossible to find.

 

But at least it's something, and I'm not about to change it now.