I’m a music hoarder, getting close to 6tb of High Res. My file structure is pretty simple right now, all artists in one large folder and then albums within each artist folder.
My question is how others structure their folders of music. Do you do the same or maybe break it up by media type (high res, SACDs, vinyl rips etc)?
I’m coming close to completing a collection of Mofi SACDs all in DSF format and thought of switching up my file structure. Which is why I came here to see what others do.
Thanks all!
Why not do it all?
Have all the various structures you want, at the same time. And to avoid it taking up a lot of space, have hard links.
Start with the basic structure Artist/Album/Track.
Then have whatever other additional structures you want, and hard link in the files from the basic structure.
It is even possible to automate if you have consistent and normalized tagging. Just write a script that examines embedded metadata and creates hard links accordingly. Takes up very little space.
Of course, you could also use some form of media player that has a database to provide various views of the media.
Don’t need to manually create hard links, script or otherwise if you just use deduplication on the storage layer instead.