Organize my library - best practices

I'm getting used to the way iTunes works to organize things and I would like to get your thoughts and ideas on what I came with. I would like to have the option checked in the preferences to keep my music organized folder (although this caused a problem with the audio books I ripped CD). Please check if the following is correct:

For simple of artists and Albums, each song file must have the artist name under name of artist and artist of the Album. Then the name of the Album should be the same in each file. This will display in this hierarchy in the interface of iTunes and the music files
When it comes to albums with more than one artist, I saw (in the iTunes interface) iTunes put them under Compilations, Soundtrack and various artists. But it always corresponds to the underlying files. So that's what I did:
If it's really a soundtrack, I often find the artist of the Album to be "Soundtrack" and the "Compilation" checked. This places the album under Soundtrack in iTunes and in the case of Compilations in the music folder. In these cases, I just remove the check mark.
If it is a compilation which is not a soundtrack, I do the artist of the Album "Compilations" and check the box. This creates a record of Compilations in the iTunes interface and stores the files in the folder of Compilations.
So far I don't see the need for a 'various artists folder - this seems redundant.

Is that all that I'm missing? For example, there is an album of an artist, where all the songs, but a list of this artist. However this song lists the artist as well as another. In the past, iTunes share this one song on another. Can I keep the artist Album is identical for all the songs so that they are all in the same place but this other artist as a "artist contributing ' to the list?

So that's how I do it now. Any thoughts, all that I'm missing? Care to share how to do this if it is different? (my concern is that this can work very well for music, but once I start to add podcasts or audio books, that the system may fail). Thank you.

For simple of artists and Albums, each song file must have the artist name under name of artist and artist of the Album. Then the name of the Album should be the same in each file. This will display in this hierarchy in the interface of iTunes and the music files

For these cases, it is not necessary fill The Album artist as an artist, although he won't be a problem to do so.

When it comes to albums with more than one artist, I saw (in the iTunes interface) iTunes put them under Compilations, Soundtrack and various artists. But it always corresponds to the underlying files. So that's what I did:

If it's really a soundtrack, I often find the artist of the Album to be "Soundtrack" and the "Compilation" checked. This places the album under Soundtrack in iTunes and in the case of Compilations in the music folder. In these cases, I just remove the check mark.

The flag of "the Album is a compilation... "is redundant functionality with the setting of a common value of the Album artist , because both will include albums with titles related to different artists. However, the use of the flag "the Album is a compilation...". ' is required if you have an iPod Classic or other model older iPod that does not support the Album artist tag. As you have noted, the indicator "Album is a compilation...". "affects where iTunes stores media files:

If the flag is set, the files will be stored in iTunes\iTunes Media\Music\Compilations\album_title
If the flag is not set, the files will be stored in iTunes\iTunes Media\Music\album_artist\album_title

If it is a compilation which is not a soundtrack, I do the artist of the Album "Compilations" and check the box. This creates a record of Compilations in the iTunes interface and stores the files in the folder of Compilations.

With this value in The Album artist albums will be placed in iTunes\iTunes Media\Music\Compilations\album_title if the flag is set or not (although its actually the indicator that determines the consumption of this issue, since in this case any value in Album artist is ignored in the determination of folder names).

So far I don't see the need for a 'various artists folder - this seems redundant.

Files of the form iTunes\iTunes Media\Music\Compilations\album_title will be created and used for albums where:

The flag of "the Album is a compilation... ' is not defined, and
the value of the Album artist is set to "Various Artists"

-This isn't a 'standard' as the Compilations one iTunes folder.

For example, there is an album of an artist, where all the songs, but a list of this artist. However this song lists the artist as well as another. In the past, iTunes share this one song on another. Can I keep the artist Album is identical for all the songs so that they are all in the same place but this other artist as a "artist contributing ' to the list?

In this case, I put the value of The Album artist to that of the 'main' artist and add all the names of "guest artist" in the field of the artist on individual tracks. Note, however, that it is common practice in digital downloads and (in some cases) the database GraceNote used to search for names of tracks on CD, to add the value "guest artist" in the name of the song... which for me is not good, so I've always updated metadata for this move in the artist field.

You approach seems fine - as long as you get the results there no way to 'straight' or 'bad '. My standard approach is:

complete The Album artist only when securities have different values of artist
to all compilations, set the value of the Album artist to "Various Artists"
never set the flag of "the Album is a compilation... »
I treat soundtracks differently, but if I did I would probably put the Genre tag "Soundtrack" and create a smart playlist to collect together, given that many BO have a single artist or composer (for example, I have the various soundtracks of 'Star Wars' with the artist, the value John Williams).

These are then combined with a consistent method to set the tags of the kind the artist and Album comes out :

more an approach somewhat esoteric set up the tag of The Album fate on a combination of the most important of the four listed above, tags more release of album in the yyyymmdd format - date to ensure that records are classified by chronological order when an artist has even several films a year (see How can I sort the albums of the same year in iTunes music? for an example).

I don't know how it would affect the podcasts, but generally the same principles should apply to audiobooks in iTunes - note, however, that there is a big difference in the way that different iDevices manage audiobooks - especially for those who use a format of audio book dedicated such as .m4b files in the iTunes Store or .aa from Audible files.

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