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?
@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.
@rastinza
I generally use timelines for some reasons.
They're useful when you can't remember the name of something. You just kinda fumble through your history.
It's also nice to be able to jumps back "3 weeks", "9 months" or "4 years", etc. to see what you downloaded or listened to back then.
@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
@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