Thread: Transferring to a Hard drive

Right, So I've got some mp3s on a few dvds, after around 2 years of having these discs I've finally decided to give mp3 mixing a go (how bad can it be)

What I'm looking for a bit of advice on is the best way to arrange the files on the drive, they are in alphabetical order on the discs so will probably do it that way. Is there a way to format the drive so in the future if I want to swap the files around to arrange them differently, I can do so, or will I have to start from scratch.

How do you people have your mp3 hard drives formatted?

cheers

Well i started out doing mine by genre, then label, then year - but found it a royal pain in the arse so swapped to year & then label. If u wanna go the whole hog u could whack a BPM folder in there as well but thats just anal imo......









Morning boss

All my hardcore/happy hardcore mp3s are in 'label' order and then an unsorted folder one for full rips and another for single tracks but my wavs are in year order

Everything else - garage, house and techno etc are just in full rips or single track sub folders.

I think for me it's easier in genre and then year as you know where you are then

You have to find a system that works for you though Ray

Yeah , sub folders seems to be the most sensible way to do it, I'm nearly through the first part which is artists that start with numbers eg 4 hero, then A ,B , ect.

I've just trawled through the first one anyway, awful load of junk on there, but a few good ones, Dodders if your looking for any particular ones, I'll see if I have em
but I'd reckon you'd easily trump me in the tunes dept,

I got the discs off a guy from Israel, he was in a kibutz apparently, some kind of hippy bloke, where he got the tunes I have no Idea, probably ripped them off the internet I presume, anyway I am now nearly Mp3 enabled,

When I pick up new tunes, I dump them on the drive sorting them into folders by label and release first then use mp3tag to fill in the tag info from Discogs.
Then you can search and create playlists via the tags (date, genre, artist, title, BPM, label, key, ....) or smart playlists with combinations of tags. If the tags are done right it doesn't really matter where the tunes are on the drive, searching via the tags will find them