I’m wondering how do you guys organize digital music library (either on laptop or DAC) for best experience?
I personally use DAC and what I do is to download whole albums and put it in. Benefit: very tidy, looks nice. Drawbacks: you have to listen to the whole album (some people prefer to do this).
Streaming: Benefit: the playlists are nice. Drawback: on DAC it is slow, and you don’t own the music, and the library can get messy when you add too many stuff.
I wonder which method do you prefer? Or does it depend on occations?
Mine are sorted into alphabetical folders, then band name, then albums. The album are named after a standard (year first). The songs are named after another standard. All files have been either MP3Gained or Replaygained when I ripped them. Metadata is also standardized when ripping, so they have stuff like album art and other important information. Much of it is gathered automatically off the Internet of course, not hand-typed.
Then there are numerous ways of accessing them, in my personal case a Logitech Media Server (Squeezeserver/Squeezebox) that’s now open source does the honors. Been too cheap to go full Roon.