Directory structure for Classical Music Albums etc.

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(09-11-2019 15:46)DavidL Wrote:  This previous thread may be of use:
https://forum.minimserver.com/showthread.php?tid=4268

Hi and many thanks for the link.

Having revisited this subject and searched further than my nose I find there are many sites giving more than sufficient information on this topic including MusicBrainz and BBC. I will study them together with the above thread and return if I have anything I can add.

Meanwhile I am noting a few technical issues which have caused me some problems which may be of interest:-

Long file names.
File names can easily break the limits imposed by some applications or operating systems when they make use of the fully qualified address within the file name which might include a NAS directories etc. Some tags I have received cause this if they include all the details in the filename including the artists or if they include the first line of text from a liturgical work as an additional 20 or more characters may be added but hidden from what is usually shown.

Illegal characters.
Although my NAS (and many others) run on Linux operating systems which can tolerate so called illegal characters, the NAS system deliberately forbids these so that the NAS can work with windoze systems. My tagging application addresses this problem but I can still get caught out by punctuation such as colons and some illegal characters are illegal even in linux based systems.

Character sets.
I still have some difficulty with these and the strange results I get from mismatches between the tagging received from databases and my system and also the care needed when entering names with diacritical marks.

Will stop now and do some more reading as I doubt I can add much given the experience of those writing with much larger collections.