Music File Naming

I think most people use a media player and file formats that support tags. I use J. River Media Center and can rename all my files with just a few clicks. I can even change the folder structure. However, it doesn't matter because my views are based on tags. I never look at my files, file names, or file structure again. I could have all my tracks named/numbered 1.flac, 2.flac, 3.flac, etc. without it changing my ability to play by album, by artist, by genre, or by song name.

With two CD albums, I have a tag called "Disc #". Each disc might have tracks 1-15, but the discs will play as one virtual disc because of the disc # field. I give both discs the same album name.

I started by thinking that as the whole is tagged, the directory structure and filenames were not important.
The moment a track is missing in the media library, you would be glad to have a file structure per CD.

This is how I organise it today
Root – allows me to have a library containing all music
Genre - allows me to make different libraries for blues/pop/classical/jazz
Artist
Album – if CD, the entire CD is in this dir (some media players have the nasty habit to spread them over multiple artist)

Multi volume sets
I use Discnumber
An alternative is to use an expression to generate a tracknumber e.g. DIscnumber*100+track for players not supporting the DIscnumber (portable)
I prefer to keep the original tracknumber (in case a track get lost)
Bit more detail: http://thewelltemperedcomputer.com/SW/MultiVolume.htm

Hi

I also use a structure very similar to Vincent's. I standardize on flac and their tagging. I use Foobar and J Rier Media Center. I like the tagging granularity afforded by JRMC but have come to prefer the much simpler organizaion by folder structure that Foobar can present .. Foobar also has an interesting property. let's suppose that you maintian the exact same structure in two different disks... Foobar recognizes them as one .. IOW Classical simply adds the content of both classical folders and they are seen as one by foobar. They have to have the same structure and spelled the same way For example "Classical" and classical are seen as two different folders...
ALl an'all it seems that Foobar presents alighter oad to the computer anyway, even if one use some rahter compicated looking "skins" which I don't.. Foobar + iPad is one hell of a Media Player + Remote Solution. I would like a way to stream lyrics or other album information to foobar while playing , a sort of active Libreto if you will ..
Oh it was about wav .. Sorry
Anyway Foobar rocks!

FrantzM said:

I would like a way to stream lyrics or other album information to foobar while playing , a sort of active Libreto if you will ..

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Something like this?
http://dan.hersam.com/2011/03/15/a-new-way-to-show-the-lyrics-in-foobar2000/