What's YOUR theory?

[johnridley]

...on music sorting?

I have a few things I'm not decided on when it comes to filing music. Maybe some of you have tried and succeeded or failed and can share.

Classical: Do you list the composer as the artist, or the performer? IOW, under W.A. Mozart, or Detroit Symphony Orchestra? I'm leaning towards the performer, because that leads to some consistency; treating them as basically "covers" of the pieces. I wouldn't file "Hurt" by Johnny Cash under Nine Inch Nails, for instance.

Genres: If you organize by directory structure, do you have genre folders, like Classical, Rock, Comedy, etc? Or do you put Bill Cosby in the same folder as Quiet Riot and Tchaikovsky? At the very least I'd want to put audiobooks in a folder to separate that, and if I do that, it'd be easier to tell Songbird to organize things this way in general. But when you get to modern music, it's difficult sometimes to assign a genre to a group, especially ones that have been around a long time and have morphed their style.

I'm sure I'll find other things to ask too.

Comments

[kevinnickerson.livejournal.com]

First, I only sort by CD, so that's different. For classical, I sort by composer except where a CD is 'artist doing a bunch of different composers', but I think there are only two of those.

A bit by genre, which annoys icycfeetofdeath. Rock(ish), Classical, World, Soundtracks, and other. She just goes by artist and/or performer.