How i organise my mp3's

[fordman]

Goldie,

If you have a CD set that has multiple CD's, when you rip them, make sure you Rip them with the Album name then CD 1 or Volume 1. When You change the Volume number, depending on how you rip them, it should create a new folder for Volume or CD 2 and so on.

Example:

Hit Me With Your Best 80's 3 CD Box Set.

CD 1 would be named: Hit Me with Your Best 80's Vol 1
Then all the songs on CD 1 will have Hit Me With Your Best 80's Vol 1 in the Album part of the ID3 tag. This will be placed in c:\Music\Hit Me With Your 80's\Hit Me With Your Best 80's Vol 1
Then all the songs will be in c:\Music\Hit Me With Your 80's\Hit Me With Your 80's Vol 1\Artist - 01 - song.mp3

Then rip CD 2 to c:\Music\Hit Me With Your 80's\Hit Me With Your 80's Vol 2. This will create a spearate folder within the c:\Music\Hit Me With Your 80's\Hit Me With Your 80's Vol 2 folder. When you rip the songs, your songs ID3 Album tags will reflect the same.

And so on.....

Di this make sence?  

Hope this helps.  

Fordman

[fordman]

I do this


c:\music
c:\music\artist
c:\music\artist\album1
c:\music\artist\album1\01 - artist - song1.mp3
c:\music\artist\album1\02 - artist - song2.mp3
c:\music\artist\album1\03 - artist - song3.mp3
c:\music\artist\album1\Folder.jpg
c:\music\artist\album1\coversmall.jpg

c:\music
c:\music\Aerosmith
c:\music\Aerosmith\Greatest Hits
c:\music\Aerosmith\Greatest Hits\01 - Aerosmith - Dream On.mp3
c:\music\Aerosmith\Greatest Hits\02 - Aerosmith - Toys In The Attic.mp3
c:\music\Aerosmith\Greatest Hits\03 - Aerosmith - Love In An Elevator.mp3
c:\music\Aerosmith\Greatest Hits\Folder.jpg
c:\music\Aerosmith\Greatest Hits\coversmall.jpg

Either way as long as the Folder.jpg & coversmall.jpg is named the same in every folder! Also, as long as the 01 is in there also so it knows what song is number 1 on the actual album.


Fordman

[goldie]

thanks very much for all yor help guys!

some of my compilation cds for example ministry of sound get place in folder such as

c:\music
c:\music\ministry of sound
c:\music\ministry of sound\Chilled 1991-2008 (CD1)\01 - artist - song1.mp3
c:\music\ministry of sound\Chilled 1991-2008 (CD2)\01 - artist - song1.mp3
c:\music\ministry of sound\Clubbers Guide Summer 2008 (CD1)\01 - artist - song1.mp3

how will it know cds such as CD1, CD2 belong to the same collection

but when a different folder such as clubbers guide is mentioned its a different set of cds?

Thanks very much

[fordman]

Alot of us use Audiograbber and similar programs to rip songs (it's Free & Fast! - Give it a google!). In Audiograbber (and similar programs),



you have to make sure you have it set like the pic below in the settings.



Create File Names From:

A=Artist Name, B=Track Number & C=Track Name all checked.

This will give you c:\music\ministry of sound\Chilled 1991-2008 (CD1)\A-Artist - B-01 - C-song1.mp3

Then you need to have Sub Directores checked also:

X=Artist as Directory & Y=Album as directory.

This will give you c:\music\X-ministry of sound\Y-Chilled 1991-2008 (CD1)

Audiograbber is smart enough to know that when you have a second album from the same artist, it keeps the original Artist folder, without re-writing it, then creates a new folder within the Artist folder for the second album.

Most ripping programs have these features and makes the Folder structure and ID3 tagging much easier.

Hope this helps! 

Fordman

[Novalak]

bad example goldie

thanks very much for all yor help guys!

some of my compilation cds for example ministry of sound get place in folder such as

c:\music
c:\music\ministry of sound
c:\music\ministry of sound\Chilled 1991-2008 (CD1)\01 - artist - song1.mp3
c:\music\ministry of sound\Chilled 1991-2008 (CD2)\01 - artist - song1.mp3
c:\music\ministry of sound\Clubbers Guide Summer 2008 (CD1)\01 - artist - song1.mp3

how will it know cds such as CD1, CD2 belong to the same collection

but when a different folder such as clubbers guide is mentioned its a different set of cds?

Thanks very much

i do this for ministry of sound

c:\music
c:\music\various artists\
c:\music\various artists\ministry of sound
c:\music\various artists\ministry of sound\Chilled 1991-2008\Chilled 1991-2008\01 - artist - song1.mp3
c:\music\various artists\ministry of sound\Chilled 1991-2008\Chilled 1991-2008\01 - artist - song1.mp3
c:\music\various artists\ministry of sound\Chilled 1991-2008\Clubbers Guide Summer 2008\01 - artist - song1.mp3

i personally dont break up discs, so if there is cd1 and cd2 i just give them track numbers accordinly
ie. if cd 1 goes from 1-15, then cd2 starts at 16

[Barcrest]

and what do you do about cds that have multiple cds and are product by the same company, do you just just put them in a seperate folder?

Put each CD in it's own folder and have the CD number in the album title.

Like
\greatest hits\CD 1\01 track.mp3
\greatest hits\CD 2\01 track.mp3

For the tag put "Greatest Hits CD1" and "Greatest Hits CD2" respectively.

[Christen]

When I use "Album Art Downloader" it works wird.

If I use manual mode an select normal, then the program freezes, and nothing comes up. This also happens in Auto cover mode? Have anyone tried the same? Or do I not understand something?

[Christen]

Test, ohh read above.

[Barcrest]

I don't use that app so i can't help sorry.