ah, and the difference between me and the OP, who I think wants it the way I have it....
> The fix (then) was > to store ALL CDs like /genre/artist/album/song.mp3. Which is what I > did, with all 1000 of them. Ick. That was never my fix: my music is stored as: %n %t.ext Ie, "03 This song sucks.flac" or something. That is in a directory named for the album, sometimes including the artist name, sometimes not. Both of the following are valid subtrees in my setup: Sinatra/Greatest Hits/03 Frosty the snowman.mp3 Someone Else - Christmas Stuff/04 Frosty the snowman.mp3 The depth and granularity I make up as I go: artists with several albums get their own directory. Those with one or two, can be lumped into a Genre directory with the artist name making part of the directory name. Yes, the varying depth means I cant use ls to find stuff: but I can use find to, um, find stuff just as well: find . -name \*Christmas\* -ls This allows me to keep albums together (important for VA things: I would rather not make a ton of directories for Last Waltz, for example and I would hate trying to find them on my hd... assuming my server had speakers, I can do: cd "The Band/Last Waltz" ; mpg123 *mp3 or something and play the whole album). I dont really see a reason to have consistent directory depth. There are two many variables: artists with one album can be tossed into a OneHitWonders directory, while those with more works can be given their own directory. Sometimes I feel like a Genre, sometimes artists are just too difficult to classify and I put them in a directory with related artists. (ie Parliament and Funkadelic can share a directory.) As long as you keep "one album per directory" and tag things correctly (as much as I like guesstags, it really isnt as good as just fixing the tags), you can order your filesystem as you like. -- snarlydwarf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30839 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
