Been spending a great deal of time converting my discs to MP3.
I make a new folder as I go along for diff styles. I've got 22 right now and will probably add a few more catagories. But sometimes it's hard to figure out where certain artists go. Elvis Costello... new wave, alternative, king of america? Speaking of "King of America"... that is practically Americana to me. Decisions decisions.

I have a classic rock folder for Bowie, VU, Neil Young, CCR, Beatles, etc. But then I came across Rush and Supertramp. No way in hell I want to hear Rush as much as Bowie so I created a folder called "Classucks" (sorry Rush fans... I can only handle so much).

How specific are you with your categories?

I just rid a right-click, properties, and it says I have 96.

Interesting.

I've got one for every artist. Probably 500 or so folders.

582 Folders at 45.1 gigs, One for each album

1531 Folders, 23.7 gigs of MP4 (which is slightly smaller than MP3's, so it would be more gigs if they were in MP3 format).

1 folder per album (some albums have only 1 song, though, if I buy the song from iTunes, from example).

1.091 Folders
12.356 files
57.2 GB

287 folders, broken up by band, then CDs in order of their release. Approximately 9.79 GB of mp3s.

321 folders, each folder representing an album.

My problem is that I seldom have time to listen to music anymore, so I may rip 2 CDs in a year to MP3s for my driving around CD. I wish I did have more time to listen to music, but it's just a low priority for me.

I think I have maybe 40-50 CDs/folders of MP3s at best (all from my CD collection).

I use iTunes on my Mac so it is by Artist:

491 Artists
754 Albums
40.66 GB (all ripped at 196k)

I could start playing them and not have a repeat song for 22.3 days. Don't you wish radio stations were like that?

One for every artist, so it's well over a thousand.

One for every artist. 142 folders, 493 Albums, 30 Genres 37.82 GBs.

820 folders, sorted into first letter of artist's name followed by artist and then albums. 6631 files total, 24.3 GB.

Hmmm, most of you guys have folders for each album. Maybe I'm going about this the wrong way. I have folders for genres. And a .log if I want to hear an album in order.

BTW, I was ripping a Simple Minds album this morning and Freedb assigned the genre as "heroic pop". LOL.

I didn't know we were doing songs and gigs, but 51,321 songs at 115.57 GB

Just two:

Music (original, huh? ): 4.84 GB/910 Songs/60:14:18 - All of my cd's (well, most of them) ripped to mp3 format.
Music 2 - 297 MB/55 Songs/3:35:56 - The three Lord of the Rings soundtracks.

Music Server:

Drive 1: 8,576 files, 679 folders, 47.3GB
Drive 2: 11,061 files, 1201 folders, 73.1GB


Bunch more on my other PCs, that's just what raeches my media receiver & TiVo.

3,346 Folders - Generally one per artist and then one per album, though there are several main group folders (such as "Soundtracks", "Classical", etc.)

36,222 Files

184 GB

Wow. I just get rid of folders all together, and just have mp3s listed alphabetically by artists. I hate opening folders to get the tracks i want to listen to, so instead I just scroll down and click on the tunes I want to hear.

Nice Numanoid. I'm up there with you. Got 159 GB of mp3.

same format as well. Soundtracks then artist then albums.