How do you have your rockbox music library set up / organized?

[RenatoN]

Here how I do it.

Music
         A-F
            Artist
                Year-Album
                       Track#-Title
         G-M
              Artist
                Year-Album
                       Track#-Title
          N-S
              Artist
                Year-Album
                       Track#-Title
          T-Z
              Artist
                Year-Album
                       Track#-Title

I put compilations into a "Various" Folder

Renato
   

[Chronon]

Music\Artist\ (Year) Album\01- Song title
Audiobook\Name of Book.mp3
Radio Show\Date-Subject (txt file matching name explaining whom is speaking and other info)

I never use Genre with music as that labeling is pretty vague when I get a Heavy Metal album with a popish tune in the middle or an Adult Contemporary like ballad.

I agree.  I think genre should be a per track attribute.

[cool_walking_]

Also, I think most music comes under multiple genres.  Classifications like "doom/drone/death/avant-garde/post-rock/psychedelic" aren't uncommon.

Okay maybe they are.. I think I threw too many in there... how about "doom drone sludge psychedelic post-rock"?

[Sherv]

I have a similar system to your older system of organization:

Root directory has:

-= Playlists =-
MP3s
Podcasts
Uploads (a vestigial name from when I used to run an FTP server, now it just houses the recent rips I've made)

In MP3s I have the following folders:

Anime & Movie soundtracks
Bootlegs & Demos
Choral & Classical
Electronic
Ethnic
Fusion
Hardcore, Heavy Metal, & Industrial
Humor, Interviews & Miscellaneous
Indie
Jazz
Nostalgia
Punk Rock & Ska
Rap & Hip-Hop
Rock, Alternative, & Pop
Video Game

I don't use the Genre tag but I may start soon...I find that most music fits under these folders, with "Fusion" being a total cop out

For me, I have it folders by genre, but very general genre. Like for example a Rock folder and all kinds of rock goes into that folder. From metal rock to indie rock. And so on, but than i find some songs that are completely in between 2 genre so this system isn't working out.
So instead I have this new set up with 4 Folders (followed by subfolders)
-Alpha (Folders A-Z each artist alphabetized going in their correct folder)
-NOW (new songs i want to listen to that I will sort when it gets old)
-Soundtrack (soundtrack folder)
-Compilations (a folder for artist where I only have a few songs and too little to put in my alpha folder)



What's your set up?

[Zardoz]

I think I threw too many in there... how about "doom drone sludge psychedelic post-rock"?

That pretty much describes Sunn O))) to me!
But yea genres are silly for the most part. I try to avoid using them and put in the country of origin and the year instead.

[cool_walking_]

The first attempt was just me pulling genres out of my ass so for the second one I had Boris in mind.  Can't blame you for thinking Sunn O))) - I probably could have added some more genres to narrow it down to Boris.

I think genres could be useful, you just need to be able to assign an arbitrary amount of them to any given song, which of course you can't represent in the filesystem unless you use one that supports hard or soft links.  I'd probably use the database if it supported multiple genres.

I think I'm going to have to add an A-Z layer in my structure because it's getting to be a pain in the ass scrolling through all the artists.

[Zardoz]

Boris rock my world. I consider them Japanese craziness genre

[mad]

always file/folder
genre
         artist - album
                               track
         artist with more than 2 albums
                     album
                               track
         

[szteto]

I still use itunes

[GodEater]

Which is of course your right

[LambdaCalculus]

There's no right or wrong with Rockbox. As long as there's music on your player, it's all good.

[bascule]

Mine's very flat. In my 'Audio' folder I have:
ArtistName-AlbumName / ##-TrackName

And in a podcast folder I just have a bunch of un-listened-to podcasts and radio rips. As I listen to them, they get deleted...

[NorTheBear]

About one year ago I changed my entire structure
from 3 levels

ArtistName  /  AlbumName  /  ## TrackName

down to 2 levels (like bascule)

ArtistName - AlbumName  /  ## TrackName

taking the fact into account that I seldom own more than one album of the same music formation.

I found that especially Jazz albums and Classic albums are very hard to categorize anyway.
Jazz musicians tend to play in different formations, so who shall be named first given the fact that the musicians are on a par?
With classic music it is sometimes not easy to decide if you want to have the files sorted after the the composer (say Bach) or the interpreter (say Glenn Gould).

[Daveybaby]

The genre tag can be very useful, particularly because it's so personal what you call something. You dont have to conform to any rules, just tag the music in a way that means something to you.

I use it to group music so that i dont have to faff around generating playlists etc. If i want to listen to a random selection of (say) chill out music i can browse to that genre and then play all the tracks in that genre (randomised of course).

Doing this by genre beats playlists hands-down IMO because as you add and remove tracks from your player youre going to have to update your playlists to handle that, but if you tag your music by genre then no need to bother.

[Sherv]

Man, getting a consistent list of genres down is impossible for me

Sure, it's easy distinguish between ska and punk, but some bands tread right in between...

Then with electronic music, I still don't know the difference between house or D&B or trance or IDM...so I tried to tag some spastic Autechre songs with "Acid" and more mellow Amon Tobin tracks with "D&B" but then I ended up with something like 50 genres!