This setup also works flawlessly with Plex. I'll try and make a better write up at some point and share my script. flacīeen using this for about a year and it's solid. Music/Soundtrack/L/(2001) The Lord of the Rings_ The Fellowship of the Ring - The Complete Recordings ~/Music/Soundtrack/A/Artist/(YYYY) Title / Title. Eg: /Music/M/Michael Jackson/Compilation/(2004) The Ultimate Collection If an album contains multiple disks, there's an extra folder. I have special categories for: Compilations Music/P/Phil Collins/Singles/(1981) In the Air Tonight eg: /Music/B/Bruce Springsteen/Compilation/(1996) The Lost Masters I_ Alone in Colts Neck (The Complete Nebraska Session) If the album isn't a studio album, theres an extra folder. Music/B/Bruce Springsteen/(2019) Western Stars If you have any tagging or naming tips and tricks, or just want to argue about the right way to organize music, leave me a comment.I've been meaning to write a guide for how it works. To edit the presets you have to make a copy, Picard won’t actually let you edit the presets. You can edit these in Picard under Options -> File naming script editor. The last line has an if statement to add the disk number if there’s more than 1 disc, otherwise it just uses the track number and doesn’t add a disk number to the scheme. Picard’s file-naming scripts have a lot of flexibility. The default scripts that ship with Picard don’t quite match that, so I tweaked one to get a custom script that gets what I want: %albumartist%/ The utility of Picard is very useful and allows you to organize your music collection in a mostly automated way. To start off, MusicBrainz Picard supports a number of different music files including the two most popular: FLAC and MP3. The NN is the track number with the optional structure of DD-NN where DD is the disc number and then the track number. MusicBrainz Picard completely simplifies the automation of tagging and renaming your collection of music files. Song title, again, is pretty self explanatory. (Deluxe editions are a special case and that’s a different discussion.) I want the original year of the album’s release. The Beatles catalog may not have made it to CD until the late 80s, but I don’t care about that. The (Year) should be the original release year of the album, not the release year of the album on whatever media it was digitized from. Rename Files refers to Picard changing file names, typically based on artist and track names. If it’s a single, I just use the single’s name as the album name or whatever is in MusicBrainz or Discogs as the canonical title for the release. The Rename Files and Move Files options are independent of one another. If it’s a compilation with multiple artists, it gets “Various Artists.” Album should be pretty much self-explanatory. To break that down, Album Artist is the overall release’s artist. The structure that works best for me, and is therefore the correct structure, is:Īlbum Artist/Album name (Year)/NN – song title.mp3 The correct directory (folder) and filename scheme for MP3s, FLACs, and other music filesĪt some point, after the collection passed the 200GB mark, the digital mess started bugging me and I started experimenting with naming schemes and attempts to clean up the structure and tagging of all the files. Eventually I got an iPod and kept adding to the collection. It had, I think, a whopping 6GB of space. Eventually I got a Creative Nomad player the size of portable CD player. My collection grew slowly and organically, and there wasn’t much organization to it. Digital downloads were just for novelty or rarities that I couldn’t get on CD like some unofficial Tori Amos tracks off a fan page. My MP3 collection grew pretty slowly, since portable MP3 players were still a few years off and CDs were still the most convenient way to listen to music. This was when you had to have a download manager for huge downloads that measured in the multiple megabytes, and a 1GB disk drive would be consider spacious. I think I downloaded my first MP3 somewhere around 1997, using a super-speedy 56K modem. columns, themes, long filename support, image converter, regex renaming. You know, the right way to name and organize music files. These apps allows you to batch rename MP3 files through the use of ID3 metadata. As an added bonus, it’ll rename the files so that the folder and filenames all match the same scheme. Most of the time I can just look up an album and it finds the correct info automagically. The MusicBrainz database is fantastic, and it saves me a lot of time tweaking metadata. MusicBrainz Picard is a free music tagger available for Windows. Last year I got deep into using MusicBrainz Picard to help tag music before I add it to my collection. Cant edit properties or tags for newly created.
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