Directory structure for Classical Music Albums etc.

[lyapounov]

There is no common thinking. There is a balance between file based structure, and tag based structure. I have almost 6500 albums, so no way I correct the bad tags. Fortunatly, MinimServer is clever enough to allow you both philosphy (tag and files) to co-exist.

My own choice is the following structure:
- Test & samplers
- Renaissance
- Baroque
- Classical
- Operas
- XXth Century
- Jazz
- Pop Rock Folk Electro
- World Music
- French music
- Movie music
- Tales and spoken things

Then 2nd level:
- jazz is the most simple: purely main artist (Earl Hines, Tord Gustavsen, etc..)
- Renaissance is the most complex; it is a mixture of composers, labels (Alia Vox, Ricercare, Harmonia Mundi, Alpha, etc.) and Interprets (Ariana Savall, Christina Pluhar, Alfred Deller, etc..) plus Early music, Elisabethan, etc...
- Baroque, Classical, Opera and XXth Centiry: second level is composer. Fortunatly, I have very few albums with multiple composers. I always add a Interpret subfolder, as an example all about Richter, or Glenn Gould or.. Of course, some albums could be in one place or another. But I tend to know where things are.

In a nutshell: do what your feelings tell you to do; this is the best way. And as many friends told me "everytime I browse your library, I have the feeling to be in your brain" :-)