Looking for a standard filename format, was: "ID3 tag standard filename syntax" Options

[luminoso]

Hi!

I've searched on Google but it seams that is no standard about this.
Any ideias?

A) About the CD number
1) codec \ Artist \ Album (CD 1)\ track - title
2) codec \ Artist \ Album (CD1)\ track - title
3) codec \ Artist \ Album (Disc 1)\ track - title
4) codec \ Artist \ Album\ CD1 \ track - title

B) About the year:
1) codec \ Artist \ Year - Album\ track - title
2) codec \ Artist \ Album (Year)\ track - title

C) About the title:
1) codec \ Artist \ Year - Album\ track - title
2) codec \ Artist \ Year - Album\ track - album - artist - title

D) About the folder structure:
1) codec \ Artist \ Year - Album\ track - title
2) Artist - Album - track - title.codec
3) Artist Album \ track - title

E) About the track number:
1) 1, 2, 3, 4..
2) 1.1, 1.2, .... 2.1, 2.1... (multiple CDs)
3) 01, 02, 03, 04

F) About the cover file:
1) folder.jpg
2) artwork \ xxx
3) cover.jpg

What are the best options? I see a lot of combinations arround the web and I don't know what is the best one.

I've been doing:

A1, B1, C1, D1, E1, F1

This post has been edited by luminoso: Aug 6 2010, 09:40

[Soviet Commissar]

I use a scheme like <root music folder>\Album Artist\Album\(Discnumber, if it exists).Tracknumber Title. It's very easy to move all of your files with foobar2000's "file operations" plugin (included in the installer). I'm sure you could use the codec as a variable in that, for example using foobar2000:

<root music folder>\%codec%\%band%\%album%\[%discnumber%.]%track% - %title%

If you have a lot of classical music or tracks with long titles, you may want to use $cut(%title%,32) and $ascii(%<field name>%) to sanitize the filenames and paths of non-ascii characters, and to keep the path length from getting too long for Windows to handle.