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[icanrule]

I'm trying to figure out a way to that I can start to store my music more efficiently and I'm looking for suggestions.

Currently I store music with the following structure.
- artists
  + album
- compilation
- singles
- soundtracks

As my collection has gotten bigger I've noticed it is taking up a lot more space and I want to see if I can get rid of duplication if possible.  In some cases especially with the Beatles I can have the same song duplicated 12 times.  I was leaning to this structure.

- artist
 + Songs
 + Playlist (where there is a playlist of each album the artist has)
- Compilations
  + Playlists
- soundtracks
  + Playlists

There are some things I haven't fully fleshed out yet.

1. what if I have a compilation with an artist that only has 1 song. Should there be a folder of artists with less then 5 songs in the collection to go to a singles finder.

2. I don't know what I'm going to do about album details. It's cool having a picture of the album and year.  I don't think I can save that in a playlist file.

3. Search problems. I don't know jriver ability to search for those additional fields of they are only located in playlists.  I like the idea I can choose albums I bought in 2010 and listen to that music.  If in a playlist how would that be saved or searched.

4. Redundancy. I need this to survive in case the jriver library fails. It hasn't happened since version 13 of jriver but incase it did I would need to restore this playlist structure.

Does anyone have any thoughts on this?

[swiv3d]

Lot easier to add another hard disc.

[RoderickGI]

Agreed again Swiv3d.

Even if you can't fit another drive into the PC, you can replace an existing one. You can buy 12TB hard drives these days. That would take a lot of work to fill up with music.

[icanrule]

For reasons I don't want to get into I have limited space and limited finances.  I need to work within my current framework.  I understand if you can't help but I'm looking for a solution to this problem to fit these specific parameters. 

[swiv3d]

If you are looking to remove duplicates of songs such as your beatles numbers it would be simple to delete the ones you don't want - reorganising with loads of playlists won't work. Removing duplicates can prove troublesome and you really need to find the version you most prefer before you remove any. Personally I would be reluctant to remove such files and would opt for a usb drive to add to my machine - 1tb types are very reasonable in price and MC doesn't care where your music files are as long as you indicate where to import them from.