2020-06-14, 22:39
Dear All,
I'm a long-time Kodi user and digitalized my complete CD collection more than 10 years ago. As the Kodi music integration matured over the years, I partially started to adapt to the improvements. About 4 years ago, I retagged my whole audio collection using Picard, which - I believe - is still the "gold-standard". However, I know that since then, there have still been notable improvements in the Kodi music area, e.g. when it comes to classical music. I'm thinking about taking advantage of these improvements by restructuring and retagging all of my audio data. At the same time, I'd also like to fix some "mistakes" I did, when I setup my audio database in the past. Some of them were:
The folder structure currently looks as follows:
Music
Assuming you were in my shoes and you would like to "get it right" for once, where would you start? How would you tackle it?
Any advice appreciated...
I'm a long-time Kodi user and digitalized my complete CD collection more than 10 years ago. As the Kodi music integration matured over the years, I partially started to adapt to the improvements. About 4 years ago, I retagged my whole audio collection using Picard, which - I believe - is still the "gold-standard". However, I know that since then, there have still been notable improvements in the Kodi music area, e.g. when it comes to classical music. I'm thinking about taking advantage of these improvements by restructuring and retagging all of my audio data. At the same time, I'd also like to fix some "mistakes" I did, when I setup my audio database in the past. Some of them were:
- I ripped all of my CDs to FLAC and converted them to mp3 at the time, but only tagged and included the mp3s in my music folder structure and database. The FLAC files just sit idle in an archive folder. Today, I'd love to take advantage of the FLACs rather than listening to the "lower-res" mp3 files in my library.
- I used relatively low-res cover scans, which - on modern, larger displays - don't look very good anymore. I'd like to upgrade them, where possible.
- I partially have different spellings for the same artist in my database, not so much in the rock / pop area but for classic composers. I'd like to align those. But I'd also like to browse my Classic collection differently than my rock, pop and jazz collections.
- My classic folder contains a mix of composer and interpreter folders and a lot of samplers contain multiple composers and orchestras (also see examples below). I'm struggling to find a consistent approach to the folder structure here
- I structured my folders according to (my personal perception on their) genre. I'd like to keep this as I usually select music by genre according to my mood. But then I put "_sampler" folders in each of the genre folders. Not sure this is an issue, but certainly not best practice according to the Wiki, where it seems as if all samplers across genres should go into one folder...
- I've got a sizeable collection of movie sound tracks, too. Those, I've sorted by movie title. Again, not sure this is an issue, but wondering whether I should actually structure them more like classical music, according to composers. There are some "big shots" like Williams or Zimmer, where it would certainly make sense. But then you have many lesser known ones, where I would not be able to find the movie just based on the composer name.
The folder structure currently looks as follows:
Music
- Rock
- _Sampler
- [1989] Super Drumming Vol. II (CD 1)
- [1989] Super Drumming Vol. II (CD 2)
- ...
- [1989] Super Drumming Vol. II (CD 1)
- Aerosmith
- [2006] Devil's Got a New Disguise - The Very Best of Aerosmith
- [2014] The Very Best of
- [2006] Devil's Got a New Disguise - The Very Best of Aerosmith
- Alan Parsons Project
- ...
- _Sampler
- Pop
- _Sampler
- Abba
- ...
- _Sampler
- ...
- Classical
- _Sampler
- [1988] Mussorgsky Bilder einer Ausstellung, Strawinsky Le Sacre Du Printemps
- [1990] Classic Festival Vol. 1
- ...
- [1988] Mussorgsky Bilder einer Ausstellung, Strawinsky Le Sacre Du Printemps
- Aaron Copeland
- Andrea Bocelli
- Anton Bruckner
- ...
- _Sampler
- Soundtracks
- 8 Mile
- 100 Greatest Film Themes
- 300
- ...
- 8 Mile
- Audiobooks
- Arthur Conan Doyle - Die tanzenden Maennchen
- ...
- Arthur Conan Doyle - Die tanzenden Maennchen
- Special Events
- Carnival
- Christmas
- ...
- Carnival
Assuming you were in my shoes and you would like to "get it right" for once, where would you start? How would you tackle it?
Any advice appreciated...