How do you organise your music in your computer 'library'?

Dubwat

I'm a recent convert to classical music but have gotten stuck at organising classical music in my music player (musicbee) on my computer. Upto to now, I've just had a few 'Best Of' & 'Ultimate'-type CD's but I've started getting more selective now and I'm running into potential trouble. I'm new to classical music so forgive me if I use the wrong terms.

I was wondering how you guys organise things on your computer?

I prefer chamber music (cello, violin) & small orchestras to the large orchestral stuff. 'The Internet' told me that Bach was the 'best' so I bought a few of his CD's.

I have Rostropovich's Bach's Cello Suites, Heifetz' Bach's Violin Sonatas and Rampal's Bach's Flute Sonatas.

According to wikipedia, the work of the major composers are given Opus (or Op.) numbers. Apparently, Bach gets BWV numbers.

So do you organise by the composer (Bach's flute, violin, cello etc), or Op. numbers (Op. 1,2,3,4) , or lead player (Rostropovich 1,2,3,4) or what??

At the moment, I'm trying the Op.1,2,3,4 approach but that means I'm breaking up CD's into smaller units on my computer. But the Op (or BWV 1031) I'm listening to now is only 11 mins long!

So I'd be grateful if I could hear your approach to organising your classical music on your computer/mp3 player. Especially if you own music by the same composer but played by a different musician. I haven't gotten that far yet!

Thanks in advance!

purebeta

I always organise by composer, then CD/Work title.
Organising by opus or bwv number is too hard to remember
and each composer has a different system and amount of numbers so it can be a waste of time, and very confusing.
It's all on my external HD so I don't really have a dedicated library/player.
I just drag them over to Cog or VLC whenever I want to listen.

Title: Auf dem wasser (Barbara Bonney) Artist: Schubert
Title: Auf dem wasser (Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau) Artist: Schubert


Don't care about op numbers
My bach suites are organised by performer though which I would change around but each track title is too long

Dubwat

Thanks for the quick replies

dlouth15

Like others I just put the composer in the artist field. The ensemble/conductor/performers etc go in parenthesis in the album name.

Artist: Johann Sebastian Bach
Album: Bach: The Art of Fugue (Emerson String Quartet)
Track: The Art of Fugue, BWV 1080: Contrapunctus 9

Not too worried about opus or catalogue numbers but I leave them there if cddb automatically puts them in for the CD. I don't bother splitting albums.

I use Banshee on the computer which allows searching on substrings within any of the fields. I can search for "BWV 1080" if I wish and it will immediately find all tracks with that in the track name.

shoegirl

I don't. I've gigabytes of complete mayhem. I unfortunately no longer have time to organise this stuff.