Limit of 65000 folders

[simbun]

If your files are tagged accurately it should be trivial to automate the reorganisation - assuming you want to - with tools such as foobar (using File Operations), having said that, the fact you have Genre in your tree hierarchy will make it difficult to replicate unless you only have one genre in your music tags too.

Today, folder structure is largely irrelevant (at least for me) as all browsing is via tags, so I decided that as long as it was consistent (so it could easily be checked), choosing a simple structure that was driven wholly from the tags (so I could easily change it should I need to) met all my needs.

I use the following naming standard.

Code:

/music/%ALBUMARTISTSORT%/albumartist.jpg                                    no use for this yet
/music/%ALBUMARTISTSORT%/%DATE% - %ALBUM%/
/music/%ALBUMARTISTSORT%/%DATE% - %ALBUM%/%DISCNUMBER%.%TRACKNUMBER%.flac
/music/%ALBUMARTISTSORT%/%DATE% - %ALBUM%/folder.jpg                        probably not needed as most players will pull it from tags
/music/%ALBUMARTISTSORT%/%DATE% - %ALBUM%cd$DISCNUMBER%.cue                 used for AccurateRip verification

An advantage of having the music files simply called %DISCNUMBER%.%TRACKNUMBER%.flac is that you don't need to worry about all the characters that aren't valid in filenames on your OS, plus it probably helps with indexing (Sonos had a 65,000 track limit but your tags and filenames could reduce that).

I understand there's no one right way to do this, so I hope I haven't caused any offense by offering up my implementation.