Hello,
I have a small collection that is currently a complete mess because I mostly use id3 tag to browse them instead of relying filesystem path. Right now I want to sort it into a more organized structure and I would like to ask how are you organizing your music collection, especially with compilation album with “Various Artists”.
Hope this is the right place to ask, thank you very much!
there’s a kind of file system that works by tagging. the BeOS guys invented it, and there are FUSE versions. with a tag-based file system linked to your music storage you can basically create a directory called “funk” and it will automatically fill with every file that has that tag. or you can create like “1970s/upbeat” and you’ll get every upbeat track from the 70’s in that directory, while still having the files reachable from “funk”. there are even specific ones for id3-tags.
all of which to say, don’t worry about it.