Music enjoyers: How do you sort your music files? What do you recommend?
Right now, for all music I download in 2022, I have:
music/2022/<artist>/<track_title>.ogg
But this has some issues. I want a general timeline of music by year of download, but then some songs by the same artist a separated into different years. Do I instead ditch the years thing and use/abuse the files' modified time stat? Do you have a different approach?
@torresjrjr
Isn't it better to store it in a artist/album directory structure and then have a separate file, maybe a spreadsheet, containing the date in which you downloaded the album?
This seems more flexible and searchable to me, moreover you might add comments on the albums and stuff like that
@rastinza
Maybe artist/album, if I have too many songs.
I'm a terminal user. Spreadsheets would work in a graphical setting, unless you meant some kind of plaintext format.
@torresjrjr
I don't know, I mean just a txt with date - album name would work.
It depends on what you need this information for...
I myself listen to albums, thus I have the artist/album structure, but I never needed to remember the year in which I got a particular one, why do you need to remember that.
@torresjrjr
I understand now, I'm not sure about the best way to go around that...
I guess a separate file with the dates works well, it's difficult to keep track of time through the filesystem