Information Files - Experience and Suggestion

[lyapounov]

I choose personally the following:

- Booklet are named Bbooklet.pdf
- Covers are named Cover.jpg when it is an album cover, Folder.jpg when it is a folder cover
- I delete any internal cover in my music files, in order to avoid having different covers (it happens sometiomes), and also control the size of the cover

Honestly, I never had any issue of multiple cover / folder with my 7800+ albums.

To be even more honest (which I usually rarely am :-) I have a complex workflow:

- all my music is in a database on my synology
- I upload new music to synology in a temporary folder
- I run a php program (which I wrote) to:
a) decode the information from each track
b) rename the music files to shorten and avoid any white space, commas, accented letter, etc. a little bit like Qobuz (I skip this step when I buy on Qobuz)
c) extract musicians when possible (I have a list of musicians as a table)
d) move the album to where I want it in my tree structure (I 100% rely on folder browsing)
e) create new entries in my database

Never had any issue so far...