No clear solution for managing, storing and playing back music files?

[Desertpilot]

This topic comes up at an appropriate moment for me as just this morning I reviewed and made a few minor corrections to my music library.  I also have a photography hobby which includes thousands of photos.  Both of these hobbies present organization/library issues.

 

For music, I rely on J River Media Center (Ver. 23, 64 bit).  I find the library feature robust and can be backed up.  The "tagging" feature is also robust.  Creating playlists is helpful for organizing music I play frequently (party music or jazz, etc).  Smart playlists (I don't use often but I can if I ever need it) offers a way of automatically organizing music by genre or composer or maybe number of channels.  J River has a cool Android remote.  I use it all the time to select music or a playlist while I am listening in my living room.  My computer is with my equipment in a another area of our home.

 

All music is organized on my hard disk by artist then album name (mostly jazz and blues) or conductor then composer then album name (classical).  J River organizes by Artist or Album Name.  If I get confused or need information, J River allows me to locate the files on my hard disk.

 

Works for me.

Marcus