How do you organize your DAP music files

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Curious to know how do some of you music enthusiast organize your folders for your daps? And best programs to tag album art?

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I have folders for artists and then all the files from different albums are just thrown in there. I sometimes auto tag my files with eac if it’s a rip of a cd, but a neat program is dbPoweramp, as when you hover over a audio file it will display properties and info about the file, and then in the file properties in windows it offers a super easy way to tag files and modify info. It can also auto tag files album art (not good for mass tagging though) from the internet. A free alternative might be mp3tag which is good for mass file tagging. I should probably say I have a library of over 50,000 songs

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I organize my music collection by year released and then albums. My formatting goes something like this;

Year/[xxxx.xx.xx] Artist Name - Album Name [Format]/ Files

Best program for tagging I’ve come across is mp3tag

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For the file names, have you ever use Advanced Renamer? You can do batch file renaming with rules and filters and it’s super handy

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I used to make sure that all files have the correct tagging information but after a while this becomes too large of a task if you lots of files.

Now I just organise by folder and have it in the format ‘artist’ / ‘album’ / ‘track’.

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It drives me nuts if there is no album art, artist, album, title, and track number, but everything else I don’t care about

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There has to be track number and title in the file, otherwise you might as well be listening to it on random and I prefer to listen to an album straight through.

Album art is a bonus, if it’s not there it’s not a big deal.

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You know I was thinking about getting that program but I’m waiting until I get a new computer since I see they have a license to use on one computer and another for multiple computers but it’s very pricey. I’m speaking about the reference package that allows you to tag your music files

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Yes I have the reference version. I don’t know if they have a trial version, but it is pretty great. I was able to transfer my copy still registered to my laptop, but I had to modify some stuff and do some registry garbage to trick it into thinking it was the same pc

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Been using dBpoweramp for years for tagging , ripping, encoding, etc. Wouldn’t think of using anything else.

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Artist folders then separate folders for albums after that. I only have 2 250gb Micro SD cards right now so I have to split my library in two to fit it all which is a little frustrating, hoping to get a 400 or 500GB soon.

I use MP3Tag for metadata work. I like it’s features for mass renaming files / folders.