Artist\Album\## Title.ext

BTW, this was discussed a number of times already  .

Surely more people will have joined since then, though?

[%genre%/][%style%/][$if3(%album artist%,%va%,%performer%,%artist%,%composer%)/][%album%[' ('Disc %discnumber%')']/][$num(%tracknumber%,2). ][%track artist% - ][%composer% - ]%title%

$num(%_playlist_number%,$len(%_playlist_total%)). 
$if2(%artist%,unknown artist)

$tab(2)

$if2(%title%,%_filename_ext%)

$tab(3)

//If the directory is 'various', then the tag 'album' is displayed, else the last part of the directory name is displayed
//Directory parts are at most 3, and are separated by the string '--'
$if(
$strcmp(%_directoryname%,'Various') ,
//Then1
%album%,
//Else1
$ifgreater($strstr($right(%_directoryname%,$sub($sub($len(%_directoryname%),$strstr(%_directoryname%,'--')),2)),'--'),1,
//Then2
$right(%_directoryname%,$sub($sub($len($right(%_directoryname%,$sub($sub($len(%_directoryname%),$strstr(%_directoryname%,'--')),2))),$strstr($right(%_directoryname%,$sub($sub($len(%_directoryname%),$strstr(%_directoryname%,'--')),2)),'--')),2))
//Else2
,$ifgreater($strstr(%_directoryname%,'--'),1,
//Then3
$right(%_directoryname%,$sub($sub($len(%_directoryname%),$strstr(%_directoryname%,'--')),2)),
//Else3
%_directoryname%
)
)
)

$tab(4)

$if(%_isplaying%,'|> ')
[['['$if2(%__codec%,$upper($ext(%_path%)))']' ]$pad_right(%_length%,5,0)]

Artist_Name-Album_Title\##-track_title.ext

Mine is

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Artist_Name-Album_Title\##-track_title.ext

Note the underscore instead spaces and the upper case in the foldername and lowercase in the filename. I'm always removing dots, brackets and other non-standard charcters from folder/filenames. What i hate the most are files named as 01 - Title instead of 01-Title

Shocking fact: since I use iTunes to move files on/off my iPods, I don't care what the path/filenames are. I use iTunes tag-based database for everything and find it far more useful that Windows Explorer (or Finder) would ever be - because it's a database! Everything (and I mean everything) is searchable/sortable/organizable, what more do I want?

I allow iTunes to handle it via the "Keep iTunes music folder organized" setting. Works great, it is the same type of system I would create manually if I had to - but I don't. When I do use a simple player like Foobar2000, I know where everything is because iTunes put it there.

Utimately, I think tags are the only sensible way to go. I wouldn't care if the files are named "Track11287" as long as my database knows what and where they are - filenames are strictly an implementation-level item that an end user need not (should not) see any more than the temp files in your browse cache right now.

$if(%album artist%,%album artist%\,%artist%\)%year% - %album%\$if(%discnumber%,CD %discnumber% - ,)$num(%track%,2) - $if($eql(%album artist%,Various Artists),%artist% - ,)%title%

Quote from: BradPDX on 2006-08-21 15:39:03

Shocking fact: since I use iTunes to move files on/off my iPods, I don't care what the path/filenames are.

The p2p community will love you.

%artist% - (%date%) %album%\[%discnumber%]%tracknumber% - %title%

Various Artists - (%date%) %album%\[%discnumber%]%tracknumber% - %artist% - %title%

Quote from: molnart on 2006-08-20 23:04:08

Mine is

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Artist_Name-Album_Title\##-track_title.ext

Note the underscore instead spaces and the upper case in the foldername and lowercase in the filename. I'm always removing dots, brackets and other non-standard charcters from folder/filenames. What i hate the most are files named as 01 - Title instead of 01-Title

If your system does not handle spaces, dots and other chars correctly you should seriously consider moving to something better designed, developed and supported.
We're not at the MS-DOS time anymore...

01%20-%20one%20of%20these%20days.mp3

Quote from: beto on 2006-08-21 15:29:08

Quote from: molnart on 2006-08-20 23:04:08

Mine is

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Artist_Name-Album_Title\##-track_title.ext

Note the underscore instead spaces and the upper case in the foldername and lowercase in the filename. I'm always removing dots, brackets and other non-standard charcters from folder/filenames. What i hate the most are files named as 01 - Title instead of 01-Title

If your system does not handle spaces, dots and other chars correctly you should seriously consider moving to something better designed, developed and supported.
We're not at the MS-DOS time anymore...

I can fire up MS-DOS in 10 sec and play my music more comfortably than in Windows. And i want to preserve compatibility with discmans/car audios. I'm also creating html exports for every album in my collection, and in html space in a link is converted to %20 so the links look like this:

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01%20-%20one%20of%20these%20days.mp3

I can fire up MS-DOS in 10 sec and play my music more comfortably than in Windows.

And i want to preserve compatibility with discmans/car audios.

I'm also creating html exports for every album in my collection, and in html space in a link is converted to %20 so the links look like this:

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01%20-%20one%20of%20these%20days.mp3

%artist%\%album%\%tracknumber% - %artist% - %title%