How to best organise your music?

[RSJ]

(10-04-2021 09:46)paultaylor Wrote:  For a music library with good tagging metadata it shouldn't be necessary to browse by folder, so from that point of view it is not important. However in order to ensure your music is tagged correctly it is important, and I would suggest you always use albumartist/album/disc within the folder structure this helps music taggers/organizers and players to identify the original album in the absense of good metadata.

Additionally depending on the make up of your music library you could break down your collection by browse genre

e.g

/classical/albumartist/album/disc
/poprock/albumartist/album/disc

Or if you have alot of Hires, you may want to split between hires and non hires

/hires/albumartist/album/disc
/nonhires/albumartist/album/disc

or you could do both

/hires/classical/albumartist/album/disc
/hires/poprock/albumartist/album/disc
/nonhires/classical/albumartist/album/disc
/nonhires/poprock/albumartist/album/disc

I think for classical music, the better folder structure is classical/composer/album[conductor]. Albumartist is a slightly problematic concept when tagging classical music - does it refer to conductor, orchestra, group or soloists - or all of those? It makes even less sense in a folder structure.