I didn’t add the art or fix the tags as I went. The mp3s I put on the server are things that had already been ripped (some, poorly). Phase two is to finish ripping my remaining audio CDs (another 500 or so to go …) and phase three will be to go back through, double check all the tags and add album art.

Though rare, I ended up having to make a few command decisions and do a little futzing around with artists whose names morph over time. For example, John Cougar a.k.a John Cougar Mellencamp a.k.a John Mellencamp. I ended up nesting all of his albums under an artist folder called simply “John Mellencamp.”

Likewise, you may run into this with others like “Joan Jett & The Blackhearts” and “Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band.” Just gotta decide if it makes more sense to you to keep the whole thing or truncate to simply the artist name.

And you may hafta fudge a little with some artist names too. For example, the folder for AC/DC is actually called “AC-DC” because the corward-slash character is not a legal character for inclusion in a folder name. (At least on a Windows-based PC, anyway – can’t speak for how this might work on a Mac or Linux box.)

And a “well done” to the off-site backup. Priceless, and easy to implement.

I hadn’t really figured you for a Tori Amos fan, to be honest. Or ICP for that matter. LOL