Set up USB drive for music

[reb0957]

Fixing to dump music to a thumb drive. My current library is set up Artist then albums of that artist.
Should I dump each individual album onto the thumb drive. Or Can I leave them in the folder the way they are set up?
I also have a bunch of soundtracks under a folder named various artists? DO I do these differently?
I am not a techie so any help s appreciated.
Thanks!

 

[duke2001]

Fixing to dump music to a thumb drive. My current library is set up Artist then albums of that artist.
Should I dump each individual album onto the thumb drive. Or Can I leave them in the folder the way they are set up?
I also have a bunch of soundtracks under a folder named various artists? DO I do these differently?
I am not a techie so any help s appreciated.
Thanks!

Don’t know, but why not just put a few on a usb and try it. If it works, do the rest. You won’t break it.

 

[RichInMN]

If your metadata is clean (Artist/Album), your folder structure won't matter - the system will scan and index everything automatically.

 

[reb0957]

What the heck is meatdata?

 

[raminuk]

Hi

i am trying to find an answer to this, i have a 480gb drive and i am trying to view, it shows artist only to S, i have tried artists on root folder and separating into sub folders like.... A-j and k-p etc, still can not get all the artists to list.

The ones that are listed play fine??

thanks