Morning everyone,
obviously after registering E-touch, I've been spending hours in organizing my music cause I'm a slob when it comes to folder structure.
I'm following the suggested structure: \music\artist\album\tracks.mp3
It's working out well but what would be the best way to deal with stragglers? (multiple individual mp3's?) Should I just create the album they originated from OR build an "UNSORTED" folder in each artist?
Also, how can I structure 80's 90's, compilation albums? Is freebox smart enough to read this structure:
\music\<decade/Genre>\album\tracks? or should I just let the genre setting take over.
Thanks in advance everyone.
You havw two choices here:
1) Place each individual song in a folder by itself, make a cover.jpg and coversmall.jpg for each folder.
here is what I did:
2) For singles, such as 90's pop tunes where there are alot of one hit wonders, I placed 18 (more or less) songs per folder. Make the 'master folder', call it 90's Pop Favorites. Then a 'sub folder' and call it 90's Pop Favorites Vol 1. Then places the songs in the sub folder like this: Artist - Song.mp3
(http://www.ppcomponents.com/etouch/file.jpg)
In the ID3 tag, Artist, Song title as normal. In Album Title I named it '90's Pop Favorites Vol 1' for all 18 songs and so on and so on........
(http://www.ppcomponents.com/etouch/id3.jpg)
Made a Generic Cover for them, added them to the sub folders.
(http://www.ppcomponents.com/etouch/cover.jpg)
(I know, but I cant Photoshop worth a damn!)
I hope this helps!
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Fordman
Thank for the reply, it does help. Why stop at 18 tracks? Just to give it the authentic look?
Also, how did you handle multiple CDs under 1 album?
Thanks for your help again.
-D
I stopped at 18 to have just 2 full pages of songs (9 per page). Plus if you do only 18, the more albums you have in your E-Touch, looks like there is more to offer. Plus scrolling the same album becomes cumbersome and boring.
If I read your question correctly, you mean an artist that has 2 or more cd's within the album set, like:
The Beach Boys Greatest Hits Vol 1 and 2
(http://www.ppcomponents.com/etouch/file2.jpg)
Hope this helps again!
:beer
Fordman
That's exactly what I mean. Do I just keep the structure as:
\musicfolder\artist\album CD 1
\musicfolder\artist\album CD 2 ?
Also, as I'm going through the sludge, What would happen if I leave the some files in:
\musicfolder\artist\song.mp3 (no album associated)
I'm asking cause I'm starting to create unsorted folders for stragglers:
\musicfolder\artist\artist-unsorted\songs.mp3
I appreciate your help. I'm starting to see some light behind all this mess. I'm thinking I'm going to finally install E-Touch and start playing with it, but I'm afraid I'll never go back to my cleaning process.
-D
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That's exactly what I mean. Do I just keep the structure as:
\musicfolder\artist\album CD 1
\musicfolder\artist\album CD 2 ?
That should do it!
The stragglers will show up as 'Various Artist' and a selection box will be there for them. If you have 100 stragglers in the same folder then you will have a single selection box with 100 or so choices. Thats why you should take the time, put them in a folder with 15-20 songs per album vs 100 or so in one album.
See Below:
(http://www.ppcomponents.com/etouch/album.jpg)
More choices vs. selection with 100 or so songs.
:beer
Fordman
Thanks for your time. I'm going to play with it some more. I just recieved my touch screen!! elo 19'. This could be a bad for my dedication to cleaning =)
It took me weeks to clean up my collection. Now I make sure that any new album I add is tagged, gained with coverart before I let it anywhere near my collection. Takes all of about 1 minute now.
brad
Fordman,
Do you by chance have the psd's for the custom made album covers? They look good and would be nice to have a template to use. Thanks
I get my cover art from good 'ole google images. Here is the original and all I did was crop and add the Vol #
Here is the original:
(http://ak.buy.com/db_assets/large_images/818/60569818.jpg)
And here is my final product without the Vol #
(http://www.ppcomponents.com/etouch/90pophits.jpg)
its 400 X 400. Then I add the Vol # text to it.
(http://www.ppcomponents.com/etouch/90pophits2.jpg)
They look good to me. I do the same with 50's, 60's, 70's 80's Pop and Classic Rock. I'll post them too shortly.
:beer
Fordman