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Topic: One folder To Rule Them All?

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I've been toying with the idea to put all my music into one folder called All Music on my HDD, There's currently 944 folders on the HDD, so I'll be using the "Filemenu Tools" app to get rid of all folders within the 'All Music' folder. I plan to use just filter and virtual folders for my library instead. I was wondering if anyone uses this same method, if so - what are the advantages and disadvantages of going this route. I've ensured all files have been tagged correctly in 'Tag&rename' , all cue points etc should still be there providing I do all the merging of folders within VDJ itself amongst other things.
 
Posted Sun 16 Aug 15 @ 12:28 pm
Mac or PC? If on PC, you can do this by right clicking your main music folder and selecting "recurse" to do the same thing without having to move stuff. 900+ folders is too much clicking. I'd recommend narrowing it down ten folders or less of the main genres> sub-folders/sub-genres. For example Main folder EDM, with House, Electro, Trance, ect in it.
 
I recommend the Media monkey app...in it you can mass tag songs and then auto organize them by genre or names based on your criteria. I love how it will auto create folders and delete empty ones i get songs together my way so fast with this app.
 
what ever you decide to do ... I recommend you do your moving within VDJ so you do not have to re-scan and cue your files sounds like you have alot.

not sure how many files are recommended per folder i have a 4k plus folder and search seems instant you might play around with it if performance declines on search.

also do a backup before u do anything to be safe
 
To be honest, I've never seen the attraction of having separate folders for my music when one folder can do all (except I keep one folder for karaoke). The music folder is simply called the "Music Dump" and consists of audio and music video, the other folder is called Karaoke for obvious reasons lol.

As long as you keep your tags upto date and stick to your own preferred system of tagging you shouldn't have any problems, I've used this method for many years and have never had any problems, with probably a much better searched time than most.

This is the way I have mine set up in the examples below and means I can make a search for a file in a host of combinations...
 
I have one folder called Music. Within that folder I have separated into decade folders; 1940's, 1950's etc. up to 2010's. But as VDJ8 can find anything in almost anyway possible one folder should be fine as long as your VDJ database stays intact.
 
tayla wrote :
To be honest, I've never seen the attraction of having separate folders for my music when one folder can do all (except I keep one folder for karaoke). The music folder is simply called the "Music Dump" and consists of audio and music video, the other folder is called Karaoke for obvious reasons lol.

As long as you keep your tags upto date and stick to your own preferred system of tagging you shouldn't have any problems, I've used this method for many years and have never had any problems, with probably a much better searched time than most.

This is the way I have mine set up in the examples below and means I can make a search for a file in a host of combinations...








Thanks Tayla, it was you who gave me the idea in the first place, I just couldn't remember where (or who at the time) I saw that you use just one folder with something like 5000 tracks in I believe.
Thank you for that and thank you to all the other Dj's too
 
Glad it can be of some use to you, just out of interest for you, the star rating I use as you can see is rated up only to three, this saves column space for me and are rated like this....

*** great track for it's genre.

** middle of the road and worth hanging onto.

* this track is absolute rubbish in my taste of music, whatever the genre, after three months I do a clean up and any tracks with this rating that haven't been played by checking with the "played count" will be deleted.

This is the current track count in the "music dump" folder.... as you can see size doesn't really matter.. lol.
 


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