In article om, RJH
wrote:
On 21/12/2012 09:26, Jim Lesurf wrote:
[snip]

I'm not quite so organised and get in a muddle with the 3 source disks I
have, adding occasional bits and pieces as I listen. It's not the end
of the world - every month or so I'll consolidate with a simple enough
sort by date.

I have things divided in a way that suits me, but may seem odd to many.

e.g. at the top level I divide files into sections like 'BBC' and 'HighRes'
and (now) 'Reel2Reel'. Then have subdirectories like 'Radio3' subdivided by
year, or by format. e.g. 'HDCD'.

I keep the 'metadata' in a mix of the filename/directory name and in text
files. Makes it easier to have my own search routines.

Then there's the cost, I'm up to about 500GB of music. Obviously, backup
is not an issue with three disks.

I'm using 3 x 1TB discs for audio. Have a seperate set of 2TB ones for
Video. FWIW The 1TB audio ones are FAT. The 2TB video, ext4.

One of the reasons for the approach is that a lot of the items are *not* CD
rips, and *not* 'popular' music. So the common/standard/CDDB approachs to
cataloging music files, etc, don't work well.

Slainte,

Jim

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