ok people i have done some research and looking but cant find anything that sticks out. i was wondering is there an unofficial way to name your songs. i usually just go artist then song. but lately with ripping my albums i am finding that there are alot of duplicate songs becuase of greatest hits albums, live albums and remake. so i am asking for people to give suggestion of how they keep and name there collection. is there some unofficial proper way? thanks for any input. and couldnt find this in any forum. move if necessary. thanks crazydrve
Well you could add album name to the filename, or place the songs in different folders according to the album, why not just delete he duplicates?
yeah i am thinking bout adding the album name to title like this: artist - album - title. and i know its stupid but i want complete albums so i dont want to delet the dups. sometimes there live versions, remakes etc. so they are in a way different. thanks for your replay. also i didint know if there was some assumed proper way that online people name there songs when there sharing. tho i did see several different ways using torrent as a test.
No prob, but I think "album - artist - title" or "artists - title - album" works better. There is no PROPER way though
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