I sort all my records and CDs by genre, easier to find stuff this way.

I keep my records organized by record label. Local labels have their own spot and then the bigger labels have their space.

By artist only

Everything that I rip from a certain point forward is stored by artist, then album, and the album itself has an MP3 folder and a FLAC folder. Never spent much time on genre, and if my program has a weird genre in there or one that I think doesn’t fit, I take it out and usually leave it blank.

I think most music lovers will hate how I organise but I use the artist name as genre, its not like I’m mad I use a digital audio player shanling m0 Pro which makes browsing the huge library of music a pain so I use artist name as genre and make them as a playlist as well

If anyone can offer me a better way of organising it please let me know I will give the answer a try

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No, only by artist. As I already know the genre of each of them. I do have a few curated Playlist though.

I don’t believe in genre.

By genre only. I have folders for each of them and each file has the tag of that genre.

I do, but my taste in music is quite narrow, subfolders are sorted by album, then label, then artist.

If ripping to store the disks, I would put all in alpha. I use my collection often and have a Christmas, greatest hits, one offs, and the majority. The majority is for artists with more than one cd. All alphabetized.

I use the file system for a rough classification

• Root\Classical
• Root\Pop
• Root\Jazz
• Root\Blues

This allows for easy filters like “Path contains \Classical\” as I do play classical most of the time.

I tag it different from the other genres (composer, composition, opus) so need different views as well.

It also solves the crossover problem. All music by Frank Zappa (and the mother) is in the Pop folder. All his compositions played by classical musicians are in the Classical folder.

The genre tag is most of the time filled with what ever the internet database supplied.

I know that Bach is Baroque and likewise any composer in that period so bit redundant.

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some album/artists represent multiple genres

Check if your media player supports multiple values in the genre tag.

I wouldn’t say that I classify my collection solely by genre, although I do use Genre tags. For albums or DJ mixes that envelope multiple genres I use multiple tags with a delimiter. Ex. Hip Hop; Shoegaze; Alternative; Rock

As for the directory or folder structure, it’s Artist - Album.

The music server application that I primarily use, Logitech Media Server, offers full text indexed search. That is, every tag, including embedded lyrics and custom ones, are available for query in its client applications.

I classify my records by genre, then A-Z by band name/artist surname.

Once I had 150+ records I could never remember the name of “that one guy who wrote that jazz record”, so I sorted everything by category.

That way, if I feel like something electronic, or something classical, pr whatever, at least I know where to start 🤷🏻‍♂️👌

Too hard - so many works don’t fit cleanly into genre buckets, some albums have multiple genres, some media players and metadata tag schemes only permit one genre per track.