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File and directory naming conventions

Reply #25 –
/artist/album/track. title

nice and simple

any other info goes in tags.
Dan

File and directory naming conventions

Reply #26 –
Artist/Album/Artist - Track

Is how I do it now. I mostly use playlists, so the file order does not matter in the directory. I have to keep the filenames as short as possible because I save the tracks to cd. If I will get a fast connection at home, Artist and Track is essential information for filesharing. If it weren't for the need to shorten the filenames, I would name the tracks "Artist (Album Tracknumber) - Track" to have more information in case of filesharing.

Johan

File and directory naming conventions

Reply #27 –
artist\[year] album\[track] title

Makes browsing completely simple...
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File and directory naming conventions

Reply #28 –
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I use:

Artist - Album\Artist - Album - Track - Title

Me too.


Edit - This is what my library prog, DJ2000 likes best.

File and directory naming conventions

Reply #29 –
I've been using Artist - Album\Artist - Album - Track - Title for a long time, but now I decided to adopt a naming scheme similar to the EFnet releases:

Artist - Album\tracknumber-artist-trackname.mp3

Eg.:

Deftones - White Pony\09-deftones-passenger.mp3

It's pretty simple and informative, and avoids the repetition of "Artist - Album\Artist - Album(...)" present in the first naming scheme.
Also, mp3 echoes in mIRC look cooler

File and directory naming conventions

Reply #30 –
Artist\Year - Album\Track - Title.ogg
Artist\Year - Album\cover.jpg
Artist\Year - Album.m3u
Artist\miscellaneous.mp3

That's it.

File and directory naming conventions

Reply #31 –
/Artist - Album/Track# - Title
/Artist - Album/cover.jpg

..with Covertag Plugin a nice thing 
 

File and directory naming conventions

Reply #32 –
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To all you lot who go:

Album/Artist - Album - Track - Title.mp3

- what do you do when you want to archive to CD? You must run up against Joliet's lame 64 character limit (or whatever it is) all the time. Under Linux I use Rock Ridge, but mp3 players & windows machines don't recognise this so the m3u files are screwed.

Anyone got a decent solution?

NTI cdmaker (has romeo filename format that allows 128 characters)

Hello rexit2  . Also CDmate has romeo & DiscJuggler also some how fits all big file names I think by breaking iso.

File and directory naming conventions

Reply #33 –
I am using Artist\Album\tracknumber - trackname
As for example:
C:\The Rippingtons\Live In America\01 - Nice song.mp3
for various artists I use
Various Arists\Album\tracknumber - artists - trackname.

In fact, my naming scheme is almost the same as the CDex default, except that I put spaces between tracknumber, "-" and trackname.

I am thinking of changing my naming scheme to
Artist\Year - Album\tracknumber - trackname.

That's it.

File and directory naming conventions

Reply #34 –
/Artist - Album/Artist - Title

with m3u playlists in each album folder.

File and directory naming conventions

Reply #35 –
I use:
Artist - Album name/Track number. Artist - Track name
(for example: Lucio Dalla - Luna Matana/04. Lucio Dalla - Zingaro)

Or: Artist - Album name/Track number. Track name
[ Commodore 64 Forever...! ]

File and directory naming conventions

Reply #36 –
This is waht I use:
artist\[year] - Album\[cd][track] - [artist] - track [Ft. featuring]

- Mostly used
Gabriel, Peter\1986 - So\01 - Red rain.mpc

- Double cd, first track from cd 1:
Fun lovin' criminals\Bag of hits\101 - The fun lovin' criminal.mpc

- Double cd, first track from cd 2:
Fun lovin' criminals\Bag of hits\201 - Fun lovin' criminal (DJ bombjack remix).mpc

- Compilation cd from artist\DJ:
Kruder & Dorfmeister\2000 - G stone book\01 - Kruder & Dorfmeister - High noon.mpc
Kruder & Dorfmeister\2000 - G stone book\02 - Tosca - Chocolate Elvis.mpc
Kruder & Dorfmeister\2000 - G stone book\03 - Tosca - Fuck dub (haaksman version).mpc
Kruder & Dorfmeister\2000 - G stone book\04 - Walkner-moestl - Shades.mpc

- Compilation cd:
Various\MTV Unplugged, The very best of\01 - Eric Clapton - Tears in heaven.mpc
Various\MTV Unplugged, The very best of\02 - Alanis Morissette - Ironic.mpc
Various\MTV Unplugged, The very best of\03 - R.E.M. - Losing my religion.mpc

- Singles:
Various\Singles\DB Boulevard - Point of View.mp3
Various\Singles\Fishbone - Ma and pa.mpc
Various\Singles\Run DMC - It's Like That.mp3

File and directory naming conventions

Reply #37 –
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To all you lot who go:

Album/Artist - Album - Track - Title.mp3

- what do you do when you want to archive to CD? You must run up against Joliet's lame 64 character limit (or whatever it is) all the time. Under Linux I use Rock Ridge, but mp3 players & windows machines don't recognise this so the m3u files are screwed.

Anyone got a decent solution?

I use Roxio's DirectCD, which lets you use filenames of whatever length Windows allows (255, is it?).

And by the way, I do:

Artist\Year - Album\Artist - Album - Track# Title.mpc

Regards,
Madrigal

File and directory naming conventions

Reply #38 –
Does anyone know is there are any standards put out by any mp3 governing bodies or basically any official standards for labeling?

I've got some mp3s of radio plays and I'm trying to come up with a good way of labeling them, so far I think this example is the best format so far;
Sherlock Holmes - (1945-01-18)-(BR & NB)-The Out of Date Murder.mp3

Anyone have some better suggestions

Thanks

File and directory naming conventions

Reply #39 –
albums:
f:\mp3_albums\artist\artist - album\track - title.mp3

random singles:
f:\mp3\artist - title.mp3

File and directory naming conventions

Reply #40 –
I don't bother with subdir's on artists - albums - etc... (a good jukebox (like Media Jukebox) makes them irrelevant)

but I use the full filename format => Artist - Album - Track # - Track Title

I do differentiate on file type (all the ogg's in s:\ogg and all the mp3's in s:\mp3)

xen-uno
No one can be told what Ogg Vorbis is...you have to hear it for yourself
- Morpheus

File and directory naming conventions

Reply #41 –
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Does anyone know is there are any standards put out by any mp3 governing bodies or basically any official standards for labeling?

I've got some mp3s of radio plays and I'm trying to come up with a good way of labeling them, so far I think this example is the best format so far;
Sherlock Holmes - (1945-01-18)-(BR & NB)-The Out of Date Murder.mp3

Anyone have some better suggestions

Thanks

Most "Old Time Radio" traders settled on a shorter convention for some reason (using an abbreviation of the series title, no spaces and all lowercase letters), so if you share your shows this is probably what you will encounter:

    sher19450917_thecaseoftheoutofdatemurder

  However, for my own use I prefer something easier to read (with a series name, episode number and shortened version of the episode name, and a full description in the tags), so would use the following:

    Sherlock Holmes 1945-09-17 ep184 - Out of Date Murder

  When naming such shows there is no "standard" other than convention, so settle for your own preference.

    - M.

Edit: This is different from the way I name/structure my music; the example I've given here is strictly how I catalog old radio programs.

File and directory naming conventions

Reply #42 –
Artist - Album\[Tracknumber] Artist - Title.mp3

looks like

F:\FavMP3\Depeche Mode - Music For The Masses>dir /b
[01] Depeche Mode - Never Let Me Down Again.mp3
[02] Depeche Mode - The Things You Said.mp3
[03] Depeche Mode - Strangelove.mp3
[04] Depeche Mode - Sacred.mp3
[05] Depeche Mode - Little 15.mp3
[06] Depeche Mode - Behind The Wheel.mp3
[07] Depeche Mode - I Want You Now.mp3
[08] Depeche Mode - To Have And To Hold.mp3
[09] Depeche Mode - Nothing.mp3
[10] Depeche Mode - Pimpf.mp3
[11] Depeche Mode - Agent Orange.mp3
[12] Depeche Mode - Never Let Me Down Again (Aggro Mix).mp3
[13] Depeche Mode - To Have And To Hold (Spanish Taster).mp3
[14] Depeche Mode - Pleasure, Little Treasure.mp3

Regards, fileman.

File and directory naming conventions

Reply #43 –
Hi M.

I didn't count on someone familiar with OTR catching me fooling around with the date of "The Case of the Out of Date Murder" - I was wondering if someone would pick the irony in that episode.

But on more practical measures - yes I've seen those abbriviations and hense the reason to come up with a better, more descriptive labeling practice. Labeling these Old Time Radio programs seem to have more chanllenge that a standard Artist - song.mp3 since these are date dependant some episodes are the same but performed on different dates - one of the reasons to have the date in the label.

I think your way of labeling is good, it is similar to how they do it here;
www.digitaldeliftp.com/FTPSite/ftp_id3.html
however I guess I just feel that including the performers names (ie. NB - Nigel Bruce) is an essential part which should be in the file name. Perhaps after I have them better organized I will find putting the episod # in is better.

Can you tell me however where you can find this information for the episod #?

Thanks

File and directory naming conventions

Reply #44 –
Artist\Album\(cd number if applicable)\Track# - Artist - TrackName