I've been collecting music for most of my life. Currently I keep my music in digital format, to conserve space. I have almost 15,000 albums so space is a concern. I store them in folders on external hard drives.
On each drive are folders for each letter of the alphabet.
In these folders are sub-folders for each Artist. Those are alphabetically arranged whenever possible by Last Name, First Name.
In the Artist sub-folder is another sub-folder for each album. They are arranged chronologically.
And inside each Album folder, the files are listed numerically under a uniform file format name
01 - Song Title - Artist Name.
02 - Song Title - Artist Name.
etc etc.
I also have a spreadsheet database that lists them all.
Sound like a lot of work? It is. But when someone says "Do you have anything by so and so?" I can find out pretty quick. And when I do a compilation (for my own listening pleasure of course) of, for example, the blues albums I acquired this year....I can arrange the songs in a folder so that it plays the first song from each artist, then the second, the third, etc.
Some people collect stamps. I do this.
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