How do you organize/remember streaming albums?

[nicoff]

Originally Posted by audioguy3107

Alphabetically of course.....the thing is the Mosaic app doesn't break a playlist or albums down any further so I'd have this one long massive list of alphabetical albums. All I'm looking for is for it to separate by artist first, then give my "playlist" of albums. If you "favorite" an artist, it gives you everything available, not just the ones you want.



- Buck

When ripping your digital collection most ripping software let you store your files in this format:

Artist (folder)
- Album Title 1
- Track Title 1
- Track Title 2

Each track has embedded metadata that includes that information. With the artist, album, track title and number embedded. So you know exactly where that track came from and the order in the album.

What software are you using for ripping? I recommend DBPoweamp.

My car plays the tracks in each album alphabetically. Since I want to play in the correct order, I need to "fix" the title of the track by making sure that the track number is included and that it precedes the title of the track.

So for Led Zeppelin II, it would look like this:

Led Zeppelin [artist folder]
- Led Zeppelin II [album]
- 01 Whole Lotta Love
- 02 What is and What Should Never

Adding the track number in front of the song title forces the player to play in the correct order.

The easiest way to fix metadata issues is using dedicated software. I use MP3TAG. It can do the fixing in batches and save you a lot of time.

PS #1 The more powerful music data management software (like Roon) do not care how you organize your files/folders. They use the metadata embedded in each track and are able to match your file data with data they already have. Then you can choose to display whichever data you prefer.

PS #2 Once you have the correct metadata in your tracks, you do not need to remember anything. That's the job of the software/player that you are using.