Hi!

I once had that same problem with the folder dilema and also post a message here months ago with this same answers.This is what i did and works perfectly...

First I create a folder structure the way I need (in my case by genre) inside a parent folder named MUSIC.Create sub folders ordered by album name. Open MP10 and erase the library.Goto settings and erase all monitored folders.Tell MP10 to add the folder MUSIC to rebuild the library and the MP10 database.Close MP10.Run Album Art Fixer ( http://www.avsoft.nl/artfixer/ ) .It will scan the MP10 database and  try to repair the Album Artist,Cover,Track Numbering etc.The most important field is the Album Artist because is the one that MP10 uses to classify and arrange the songs.If one song inside an album (and hence inside that album directory) has no album artist MP10 will relocate that song to a new directory while the others remain in their original location.You can tell Album Art Fixer to not relocate the file by unchecking that setting in the application.

An Important note: Album Art Fixer does not make any change to the MP10 database after it finishes.You must run MP10 and teel it to perform a Process Media Now command under the Tools Menu.That make take some minutes and then changes will be commited to the database.You will end with files with proper Album Artist field,Track Numbering and cover Art in the form of Folder.jpg that MCE can read and display (all of this with the physical folder structure the way i like it)...

Here's a prime example if Microsoft or Apple care to listen to their customers: 

My music collection is over 200GB and sorted in the folders I have chosen, firstly by genre: audiobooks, blues, classical, pop, rock, punk, jazz, and then for most of them, by artist and album.

The Classical folder is the largest and NOTE! the music spans 2000 years. So I've labelled the files chronologically by composer, using the mid-date of the composers life as a file name, for example:

1854 Smetana

1857 Verdi

1860 Bruckner

1860 Mussorgsky etc

 

Then within "1718 Bach JS" for example, there are the albums:

 

Bach - Brandenburg Concertos

Bach - Goldberg Variations

Bach  - Matthaus Passion Disk 1

Bach  - Matthaus Passion Disk 2

 

This is very important because The Mathew Passion for example, is made up of about 90 MP3 files each about 1 minute long with repeating names such as Aria, Chorus, Recitative, Chorus, Aria .. etc. Strip that labelling away as itunes and WMP do and you lose the order and the track gap timing - absolutely useless. Even selecting the folder and clicking "play in wmp" is a waste of time because wmp re-orders the files! Heathens!   

 

I've then put compilations in one of 8 folders according to the muscial age:

 

-1100 Early Medieval Music

1150-1300 High Medieval Music

1450 Late Medieval Music

1600 Renaissance Collections

1750 Baroque Collections

1820 Classical Collections

1900 Romantic Collections

2000 Modern Collections

If anyone can auggest a better way to organise this collection using ID3 tags, and a realistic way for me to implement their idea with over 4000 albums, I will pay good money. Because since copying the collection onto RAID I rarely listen to my home music. No thanks to Microsoft or Apple or the ID3 community for their very simplistic view of musicology.

 

Check out media player 11. This thread is all about version 10. Don't bump old threads.