How to best organise your music?

[paultaylor]

(10-04-2021 11:36)RSJ Wrote:  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.

AlbumArtist is not so difficult, I just consider it to mean those people credited on the front cover of the album, they are likely to be a combination of conductor, soloist, orchestra and be involved in all/the majority of the pieces (the composer should not normally be the album artist), the key thing is the album artist(s) should always be the same for all tracks on an album.

I certainly would not divide by composer, since many albums have works by different composers and so you are splitting up your albums with no hope of getting the complete album back at a later date if you want. Using MinimServers metatags it easy to use COMPOSER and GROUP to categorise the works within an album for the purposes of playing works by a particular composer without reference to the album.