How do you organise your game music?

[Incognito D]

I have a fairly decent amount of music from videogames on my iTunes and I'd guess a lot of other members here do as well (although not necessarily on iTunes).

Anyway, what system do you guys use for organising it?

I find it can get complicated to know what to list it as.
For example, who is the artist? Does that mean the original composer, or the person that put together the arrangement?
What if more than one person arranged the music? What if it was performed by an orchestra?

As you can see I'm getting pretty confused trying to arrange it all in the right manner.
I'd be interested to hear how others do it.

[noiseredux]

Artist = Performer
(Composer is the writer, you wouldn't list say Hendrix's cover of "All Along The Watchtower" as being by Dylan, even though he COMPOSED it. Eh?)

If it's say an orchestra doing the work of one composer, you might put Title = COMPOSER: TITLE. (This is generally how I'd organize my classical collection as well).

If it's various performers, I usually put Artist = Soundtrack. Then I put each artist in paranthesis following the song title.

[Pulsar_t]

I organise them into albums, they're often already tagged and if not VGMDB has all author info that I'll ever need. The entire list (30 DVDs worth) is in a single text file. How's that for simplicity

[CRTGAMER]

Dude, you have too much music .........

Organize by original Video Game Title followed by song title.

Sub search by artist by the actual performer or orchestra.

[Incognito D]

that VGMDB website is amazing! So much information - thanks

The whole thing is just basically me being OCD about nothing and spending way too much time trying to work out whose name deserves to be put down as Album Artist, Artist, Composer etc...

I should probably just stop and actually listen to the music for once...

[fastbilly1]

I have a soundtracks folder on my music partition with three primary folders: TV/Movies, Anime, and Games. Inside they are separated by title or series:
ie:
Full Throttle
Phantasy Star Series
Final Fantasy Series
Crazy Taxi

If there are more than three titles in a series that I have a soundtrack for it gets a series folder. As silly and simple as it sounds, it took me a long time to get it in a structure that I like. And the Full Throttle soundtrack is simply Bone to Pick by Gone Jackals (its the soundtrack as far as I am concerned).

If I ever get around to building a jukebox itll probably change.

[Pulsar_t]

Since iTunes is stupid and proprietary (I can't get rid of the damn iPhone icon in my computer I regret ever installing iTunes) I'm wondering whether there's a better music manager out there. I tried Winamp's media player but sadly Winamp is the "crashiest" music player ever. I'm thinking of an application that can generate a simple enough database based on local folders and CD/DVD volume identifiers, and when necessary fill out a USB mp3 player with random tracks. I use mix2stix for that purpose but it doesn't index my music. Winamp has more features but it always crashes on me, and I can't give up my precious chiptune decoders WMP is out of the question as well..

[AppleQueso]

Since iTunes is stupid and proprietary (I can't get rid of the damn iPhone icon in my computer I regret ever installing iTunes) I'm wondering whether there's a better music manager out there. I tried Winamp's media player but sadly Winamp is the "crashiest" music player ever. I'm thinking of an application that can generate a simple enough database based on local folders and CD/DVD volume identifiers, and when necessary fill out a USB mp3 player with random tracks. I use mix2stix for that purpose but it doesn't index my music. Winamp has more features but it always crashes on me, and I can't give up my precious chiptune decoders WMP is out of the question as well..

Foober2000. Does just about anything Winamp does and has a nicer interface and is more stable to boot.

It's my favorite media player.

[Pulsar_t]

I already use fb2k to encode chiptune music into more portable formats. Does it have a media library akin to Winamp's?

[AppleQueso]

I already use fb2k to encode chiptune music into more portable formats. Does it have a media library akin to Winamp's?

Yup, just point it to your music folder and it handles the rest automatically. It even auto-adds new stuff when you simply put it in your fold, no re-scanning needed.