Schoole me ~ Naming conventions

Hi all,

Long time listener, first time caller..

Been trying to determine/find references to the best naming conventions to use for the various media as well as specifically for a media type. In my collection


MUSIC (Quite large, complete albums)

• ROCK
  

[INDENT]

• 0-9
• A
  • Artist lname, Artist fname (bitrate, 2 cd set, year) - album name
    • disc 1
      • track# - song title
      • track# - song title
        
    • disc 2
      • track# - song title
        
• B
  

[/INDENT]

• Artist lname, Artist fname (bitrate, 2 cd set, year) - album name
  • disc 1
    • track# - song title
    • track# - song title
      
  • disc 2
    • track# - song title
      

[INDENT]

• CLASSICAL
  

[INDENT]

• 0-9
• A
  • Artist lname, Artist fname (bitrate, 2 cd set, year) - album name
    • disc 1
      • track# - song title
      • track# - song title
        
    • disc 2
      • track# - song title
        
• B
  

[/INDENT]

• Artist lname, Artist fname (bitrate, year) - album name
  

[/INDENT]

• track# - song title
• track# - song title
  
• track# - song title
  

This is how i've always kept it sorted for my various audio players i've used over the years..

Regarding video though, i am fairly new..

Currently, i have about:

250 movies of various quality, some in 2 discs
15 or so odd TV shows, multiple seasons, each with various episodes, organized by:

• TV Show
  • Season 1
    • S1 - E1 - Episode Name
    • S1 - E2 - Episode Name
      
  • Season 2
    • S2 - E1 - Episode Name
    • S2 - E2 - Episode Name
      

Well over 100 or so personal home videos, organized by:

• xxxx-xx-xx - event
  • xxxx-xx-xx - event
    

1000's of photos, organized by:

• Year
  • xxxx-xx-xx - event
    • xxxx-xx-xx - event - 01
    • xxxx-xx-xx - event - 02
    • xxxx-xx-xx - event - xx
      

What are the best approaches for naming conventions? Am i on the right track?

FWIW - Windows XP running XBMC latest.

Thanks all.

http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=TV_...Library%29
http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Mov...ie_lookups

Poor Windows XP

poofyhairguy Wrote:Poor Windows XP

I tried and tried and tried to get linux up but was defeated by driver incompatibilities I took the easy road i guess.

ppic Wrote:http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=TV_...Library%29
http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Mov...ie_lookups

Thanks ppic!

I have been going back and forth on the idea of adding intelligent information in my movie/tv filenames. I have seen others have moviename.codec.resolution.ext in their filenames and wondered what your opinions are of the pros and cons of doing so and what naming conventions are best to follow. I don't mean the filename to be used for scraping but as a quick way to tell what a file contains, for my own personal record keeping.