![]() For classical music it is media/music/composer///, with separate folders outside the composer list for recitals and compilations. My file organisation on the server is very similar to that used by swdick. I regard file and folder naming as an essential part of my metadata structure. You will need to be able to find tracks for maintenance (including tagging) and file operations such as backup or conversion to different file formats. You occasionally come across the view that, when the server indexes all the tracks, it doesn't really matter where they are stored, so long as they are where the server can find them. It is good to be able to list the contents of an album on a work-by-work rather than a track-by-track basis, particularly as many classical albums have dozens of tracks. But I do think that most people organising classical music will probably want to add the Group tag, with its particular usage described in the MinimServer User Guide, to Simon's basic list of tags you need to populate. I find, for instance, that I rarely wish to select classical music by artist name, so I haven't bothered with an ArtistSort tag or reversing Artist names. Later refinements were adding ComposerSort tags to all classical tracks (so that I could select composers alphabetically by surname - this was before MinimServer could reverse names on the fly), adding Composition and Group tags (so that the main browsing sequence became Genre -> Composer -> Composition) and implementing alphabetical grouping.Īll this was done through experiment, and discovering what I liked. Initially, I tended to use the, but soon I switched to the browsing sequence Genre -> Composer -> Album. I ripped and tagged about 25 of my favourite albums, and experimented with different ways of accessing the collection. MinimServer's 'intelligent browsing' allows you to access the music in different ways, so you are not forced to stick to one method, but what you know is usually a good place to start, and you can work out from there. ![]() If you are used to accessing music in a particular way, it's probably best to keep the option of organising your music in the way you organise it now. The key thing is the way that you yourself have been using, and intend in future to use, your music collection. There is no one right way of doing the job. Here's some of what I learned along the way, and also from this and other forums. Even so, the job is now done, and, except for additions to the collection and correction of tagging errors, hopefully will not need to be done again. My collection is much smaller than some (700-800 CDs, about 85% of them classical), but it still seemed a formidable task to get it all ripped and tagged. It's now almost exactly a year since I faced exactly the question swdick is asking. I'll stop now and let other people share the benefit of their experiences. You can also use tag formatting to combine these separate tag values into whatever information you want to see in your control point's playlist or Now Playing screen. This style of tagging allows you to take advantage of MinimServer's Intelligent Browsing capabilty to select by any tags in any order. If there's more than one performing artist, you can either have mutliple Artist tags or you can use specific tags such as Conductor or Orchestra. With MinimServer, it's best to have separate tags for Composer, Composition and Artist. ![]() So far I have put every CD (album) in a seperate folder within a COMPOSER-folder. ![]() (23-09-2014 18:57)swdick Wrote: I am beginning to put my music on a NAS and am wondering what is the best way to organize it. Kinksy shows sometimes artist, composer or whatever but I cannot see any logic in what is shown. I have so far added a tag 'composition' to every file (with exectly the same name for the composition). Would I need to group every performance or is this done by Minimserver as it is in a seperate folder anyway? If so how do I do that? What is the best way to organize my collection? I have a lot of compositions in different performances and want to see the several performances in Kinsky with their respective artist, conductor, orchestra to be able to choose the performance I like, e.g. composer - composition - performing artist. What I want however is to search (using Kinsky) as follows: I am beginning to put my music on a NAS and am wondering what is the best way to organize it. ![]()
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