When I had albums the only one I cared about organizing was the one on the end that people could see. I always made sure it was something that showed how cool I was.
I didn’t think OP meant physical.
Do they mean ‘physical’ for ‘stored in own storage’, instead of cloud?
They might but pretty sure that’s wrong.
I’ve used MediaMonkey for years and let it do most of the work. Mostly I focus on my playlists, like “Current Mindlist,” “Calm the Fuck Down,” and “You’re Gonna Get a Speeding Ticket.” I also do smart lists by artist, genre, or grouping tags. It’s worked really well for my 50k+ files on the computer side. Just need to find a good player for my iPhone so I can pass ratings back and forth along with changes to playlists made on the phone. I used Spotify for a decade or so and have enjoyed digging back into my old stuff.
this is a real problem. one of the next projects is to build a scaner that will leverage the Shazam API to identify and sort all my loose music (about 300% of my collection). afterwards I’ll be using said project to identify ripped physical media from my massive 33/45/78 collections, some of which are local presses from almost 100 years ago that nobody has heard in decades.
Picard musicbrainz + jellyfin + feinshin + lidarr
Works a treat
I have a quite large music library of music.
General music folder is organized by artist name, alphabetically.
Within each artist folder I organize albuns by year.
Each track is numbered in the file name itself.
Extra data goes into the file tag, readable by my music player.
I don’t. Every album goes in the
~/Musicfolder. I don’t use playlists unless you count albums as playlists.Don’t really do playlists but i have Genres, They are then split into bands, Which are the split into albums.
probably a good question for !selfhosted@lemmy.world as well
Um, do you mean discs and albums? Because that’s physical media.
Anything else is bits.
Disc content is bits.
How I keep my physical music files.You need more music files, but I love the thumbholes in this to require less random access memory.
I assume you mean digital files. I keep them all lumped together in a folder. I only have around 1,300 songs, since I only download the specific songs I’m looking for and not entire albums.
I organize my playlist by mood or use. “Working” is high bpm and general upbeat motivating things, “Singing” is things my middle aged ass sings along with when drunk or otherwise chemically enhanced, “Sadness” is the most soul crushingly painful songs that have lyrics I directly relate to, “Sexy time” is for when your mom or anyone else here’s mom visits… the usual.
Same here, except I don’t use playlists. If I want to see everything by album, most music players can do that by reading the metadata.
I just have a Music directory with a subdirectory for each album named <artist name> - <album name>, with the files inside being named <disc number (if needed)> <track number> <track name> - <artist name>.
I don’t even use the library functionality of any audio player. I just have my file manager set up so that it uses the cover art as the thumbnail, set the thumbnails to a big size, and use the built-in search functionality for finding something. That limits what can be found, but I can’t say I ever needed to find an album by the year it came out.
I like to rifle through my music, so I just keep all my new albums on one shelf and move them to another shelf as I listen to them. Then I can choose if I want to listen to something I haven’t heard yet, or something I have, and if I have, it’s sorted naturally by last listen time, since I always put albums on the shelf in the same spot.
The only exception is that if I really don’t like an album, I’ll put it on one of the edges of the shelf so it can withstand the most pressure. I try to keep the records packed tightly enough not to tip too much, but also loosely enough not to be squished, but if I do make a mistake and end up messing up a record, I’d rather it be one I don’t plan to listen to again.
