Music Naming Conventions - fcmendoza/Howtos GitHub Wiki
Naming conventions for music files, songs and albums.
Artist - Album - ## Song Title
Nightwish - Century Child - 03 Dead To The World.mp3
Avril Lavigne - Let Go - 04 - I'm With You.mp3
Queen - A Kind Of Magic - 09 Princes Of The Universe (Highl.mp3
Hoobastank - Every Man For Himself - 04 Inside Of You.mp3
Theatre Of Tragedy - Musique - 02 City Of Light.mp3
Panic At The Disco - A Fever You Cant Sweat Out - 10 I Write Sins Not Tragedies.mp3
FOR FOLDER NAMES
If we only have one disk of an artist then:
Artist Name - Album Name
Example:
A Perfect Circle - Mer De Noms
Disturbed - The Sickness
If we have more than one disk for a given artist then:
Create a folder for such artist then put its albums inside of it, following the previous convention.
Example:
Apocalyptica
Apocalyptica - Cult
Apocalyptica - Inquisition Symphony
Apocalyptica - Plays Metallica by Four Cellos
...
The Gathering
The Gathering - If_Then_Else
The Gathering - Souvenirs
FOR SONG NAMES
When we only have a disk of an artist:
XX - Artist Name - Song Name.mp3
Example:
04 - A perfect circle - Judith.mp3
04 - Aesma Daeva - The Eros Of Frigid Beauty .mp3
02 - Audioslave - Show Me How To Live.mp3
11 - SG Wannabe - Happy!.mp3
06 - Flyleaf - Im Sorry.mp3
This is also valid:
Artist Name - XX - Song Name.mp3
Epik High - 03 - Fan.mp3
Sirenia - 04 - Euphoria.mp3
And if the songs are already named following the conventions as when we have more than one disc for an artist then just leave them like that, for example:
Hoobastank - Every Man For Himself - 03 Moving Forward.mp3
When we have more than one disc for an artist:
Artist Name - Album Name - XX - Song Name.mp3
Example:
Apocalyptica - Inquisition Symphony - 04 - Nothing Else Matters.mp3
Apocalyptica - Plays Metallica by Four Cellos - 04 - The Unforgiven.mp3
Apocalyptica - Worlds Collide - 06 - Stroke.mp3
Avril Lavigne - Let Go - 01 - Losing Grip.mp3
Avril Lavigne - Under My Skin - 06 - My Happy Ending.mp3
This is also valid:
Artist Name - Album Name - XX Song Name.mp3
Apocalyptica - Apocalyptica - 11 Deathzone.mp3
INDIVIDUAL OR INCOMPLETE SONGS
When we have just a few songs of an artist from various of its albums we could name the folder where those songs are contained like Artist Name
. This way I could tell them apart from the ones like Nightwish or Lacuna Coil.
And apparently the convention to name the audio files is Artist Name - Song Name.mp3
. This convention was developed by accident but I think I should keep following it.
Some already fixed following such convention are:
Artist Name - Song Name.mp3
- Aerosmith
- Rammstein
- Static X
- Slipknot
- The Smashing Pumpkins
- The Doors*
- Stratovarious
*(this one does not follow the convention mentioned above as the files were already named under a different convention that looks ok to me. in fact it's using the multiple albums convention)
Notes
- From the ~422 songs in JMusic, I should only keep 20% or so of them. That gives us about 80 songs to keep.
- See also: https://trello.com/c/sADUMklB/84-individual-or-incomplete-songs