\xxx.mp3
No genre, no year, no nothing. If it's a multiple CD album, I combine it into one folder. Much easier to handle.
My tags are title, artist, album, genre, year & comment if needed. Track numbers are always xx/XX.
MP3 filenames are:
xx - title.mp3
No artist, year or album in the title. Between my tags & my folder system, I don't need along title.
I use a custom export (thx to dano & milka for inspiration). My results look like this:
[http://www.texasfeldmans.com/pages/stuart/music.htm](http://www.texasfeldmans.com/pages/stuart/music.htm)
Hope this helps! 
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### Author:  [@DJBoS](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/DJBoS)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2006, 2:58am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-do-you-organize-your-music/3520/10 "2006-07-04T02:58:24Z")
wow astrohip, first of all, thanks for the tips, I'll see what I can play around with. Second, I really like your export format, you should think about releasing that for others to use. It's a very nice way of organizing everything.
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### Author:  [@milka](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/milka)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2006, 5:34am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-do-you-organize-your-music/3520/11 "2006-07-04T05:34:32Z")
> [@](#):
>
> So, is there any config made as of yet that handles multi disc albums for properly tree'ing them as far as artist/album/cd1 artist/album/cd2?
Try out [my exports](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/2422/1) (Simple Smart Dynamic List & Artist-Album Tracking).
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### Author:  [@DJBoS](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/DJBoS)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2006, 2:16pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-do-you-organize-your-music/3520/12 "2006-07-04T14:16:51Z")
hey milka the link that "downloads all exports" at once is broken... Is there any way you can fix those few links so I can grab all your formats at once and decide which I like best?
Thanks man!
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### Author:  [@DJBoS](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/DJBoS)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2006, 7:10pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-do-you-organize-your-music/3520/13 "2006-07-04T19:10:26Z")
OK... here's what I've done....
I have 3 main directories... rock, rap, techno
D:\music\rock
D:\music\rap
D:\music\techno\
the rock directory is... set up like
artist\album\xx.mp3 ... if it's multi-CD i have the files named CD# - xx.mp3
i have a few soundtracks... where there are multiple artists... the exports seem to have a problem outputting the albums with multiple artist tags. Or, with my techno, I have several mix albums so there's the same issue. If I have a folder without a sub-folder, it seems to export strangely.
for example... techno\megamix\xx.mp3
doesn't output as nice as techno\megamix\some-name\xx.mp3
the export of the first will look like techno\>megamix\>xx.mp3
where as the other will look like megamix\>some-name\>xx.mp3
I'm having a hard time explaining the problem... I'll upload the export that's coming out and maybe you'll see what I'm sayin...
I used dano\_List\_Album\_d\_js\_ex.html format... you'll see that everything looks good. But then you click on "Techno" towards the bottom. These are all the files that are in techno\folder\ but not techno\folder\sub-folder
[Techno.zip](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/b/bb4d98d511903673b812ef37feaa97cb842d9bab.zip) (93.6 KB)
[Techno.zip](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/b/bb4d98d511903673b812ef37feaa97cb842d9bab.zip) (93.6 KB)
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### Author:  [@dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dano)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2006, 8:34pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-do-you-organize-your-music/3520/14 "2006-07-04T20:34:51Z")
Well it needs all structures to be "folder\sub-folder"
You need to put your mix albums in a folder like "Various Artists" or "Compilations" so you have:
techno\Various Artists\megamix\xxx.mp3
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### Author:  [@Tankred](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Tankred)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2006, 8:53pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-do-you-organize-your-music/3520/15 "2006-07-04T20:53:54Z")
I have one partition that is reserved for my audio files. In this partition, I have folders "a", "b", "c" and so on and three extra folders "soundtracks", "classical" and "vocal" (aka audio books). In these folders, I have subfolders with the artist's name and every artist subfolder contains another subfolder with the name of the album.
Example:
d:\A\A Perfect Cycle\Emotive{files]
As I use MediaMonkey to search my files, I don't see a reason for further differentiators such as "genre".
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### Author:  [@SquallLeonhart38](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/SquallLeonhart38)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2006, 6:45am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-do-you-organize-your-music/3520/16 "2006-07-05T06:45:17Z")
Mine is pretty long but useful:
F:\Eigene Dateien\Eigene Musik\First letter of artist\Artist name\Album (Disc Nr.) [Year]\Tracknr - Title - [Original artist Cover]
So some examples:
V\Various Artists\Scorpion King O.S.T., The [2002]\07 - Hoobastank - Losing My Grip.mp3
C\Children Of Bodom\Are You Dead Yet- [2005]\02 - Rebel Yell [Billy Idol Cover].mp3
D\Die Ärzte\Geräusch - (Disc 1) [2003]\01 - Als ich den Punk erfand.mp3
T\Doors, The\The Best Of The Doors (Disc 1) [1985]\01 - Break On Through.mp3
M\Metallica\Some Kind Of Monster (EP) [2004]\01 - Some Kind Of Monster.mp3
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### Author:  [@astrohip](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/astrohip)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2006, 11:09pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-do-you-organize-your-music/3520/17 "2006-07-05T23:09:51Z")
> [@Tankred](#):
>
> ... I don't see a reason for further differentiators such as "genre".
Agree. The reason I don't use any genre, year, etc in the folder system is due to potential conflict. Is it Rap or is it Rock? Is it Rock or Pop? yada yada
I notice several of you have an A/B/C folder breakdown. I've thought about doing that, as I have hundreds of artists in my main folder. But again I keep coming back to . . . the more you segregate & file, the more likely you will be to either misfile, or not know how to file a certain recording. So I keep it simple 
Artists
Compilations
Soundtracks
Classical\
Good thread! 
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2006, 6:41pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-do-you-organize-your-music/3520/18 "2006-07-06T18:41:56Z")
Off-Topic discussion regarding milka's exports was splitted to [this topic](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/3525/1).
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### Author:  [@Louie](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Louie)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2006, 1:58pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-do-you-organize-your-music/3520/19 "2006-10-10T13:58:07Z")
**Heres how my music is organized:**
Z:\Music Library\Artists\Album Artist\(year) album\01 - title - artist.MP3
Z:\Music Library\Audiobooks\Author(year) Album\01 - title - artist.MP3
Z:\Music Library\Soundtracks(year) Album\01 - title - artist.MP3
Z:\Music Library\Compilations(year) Album\01 - title - artist.MP3
**Notes:**
I just use one _tag-filename_ function to organize all of my music in this format.
I use the %contentgroup% field for the categories (Artists, Soundtracks, Comp....).
I use the %band% field for album artist. (Itunes 7 support this field now.)
If a field is missing i have a fail safe:
$if(%field%,%field%,Unknown Field)
So for example there is no %album% or %year% specified, it would fall under the folder "Unknown Album"
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