Music filename structure recommendation

[RottingMeat 2]

I will be the first to admit I may be a bit more particular in how my music structure is set up, but it's only because I have spent months ripping, encoding, tagging, musicbrainz matching, etc.    Can someone please advise me the best way to handle tagging of various artists and multidiscs?  Currently I use Picard to do my tagging using this:

$if($eq(%musicbrainz_albumartistid%,89ad4ac3-39f7-470e-963a-56509c546377),

$left($if2(%albumartistsort%, %artistsort%),30)/

$left(%album%,40) \($if(%date%,$left(%date%,4))\)/

$left(%album%,30) - $if($gt(%totaldiscs%,1),$if2(%media%,CD)%discnumber% - ,)$num(%tracknumber%,2) - $left(%title%,30)

,

$if2(%albumartistsort%, %artistsort%)

/

$left(%album%,40) \($if(%date%,$left(%date%,4))\)/

$left(%album%,30) - $if($gt(%totaldiscs%,1),$if2(%media%,CD)%discnumber% - ,)$num(%tracknumber%,2) - $left(%title%,30))

 

If anyone uses the same tool, please advise.  This allows me to have various artist albums in one area.  Maybe I'm just to particular and I should let Emby (and Media Monkey) sort it out by tagging itself.

[Luke 42085]

artist\album\song

 

In the future we hope to be able to accommodate any folder structure by being 100% tag-driven, but currently we do require a little structure. Thanks.

[Deathsquirrel 745]

My standard process is:

 

1. Rip with exact audio copy
2. Tag with Picard
3. Override any Picard tags I don't like with MP3Tag

For folder structure I use \\server\share\Artist\Album\songs.

 

On your specific questions of multi-disc and various artists:

 

• For multi-disc make sure the disc number tag is populated and then put all tracks for that album in the same folder.  When I started doing that I changed my file name format to 'Artist - Album - Disc Number-Track Number - Song Title' so Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness - 1-1 - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness.  Adding the disc number prevents conflict when the two discs contain different versions of the same songs in the same order.
• Drop albums with various artists as the Album Artist in a Various Artists folder.  For example \\Server\Share\Various Artists\Nightmare Revisited.