Been doing this for years, I've mostly relied on the player for info on the music.

• AlbumbyArtist/Artist/Album/Track - Title
• Compilations/Album/DiscTrack - Artist - Title
• Singles/Artist - Title

It depends on the album type:

• ~/Music/// -
• ~/Music///- -
• ~/Music/Compilations// -
• ~/Music/Compilations//- -

Multi-artist albums go in Compilations, multi-disc albums are separated to prevent tracks with identical titles overriding eachother.

/Music Library/Artist Name/Album Name/01 - Song Name.flac

I also have a .m3u playlist, high quality album art, and a dr14.txt file in every folder.

If there are multiple disks, it's /Music Library/Artist Name/Album Name/Disc 1/01 - Song Name.flac

album artist/ album/ [disc#-]track# track name

A compilation album will either be under the album artist (think of Greatest Hits compilations or a tribute album of covers like the Encomium and Nativity in Black series) or under a 'Various Artists' directory (like movie soundtracks where there isn't really a singular logical album artist).

I let tag-aware software do the actual directory and file naming for me.

It's really down to personal preference. I just got used to how iTunes did it and I've been doing that ever since. I don't use iTunes anymore, Strawberry for playing and fre:ac for ripping.

I do:
Music > Artist/band-name > Almum-title(Year)

For "various artists" discs I do:
Music > VA > compilations/OSTs/Splits (organize them in what type of VA disc they are) > Album-title(Year)

I let the tags take care of the more detailed info.

When I was still mucking about with files (before the death of my NAS), I put them into nested folders by genre. Artists that don't fit into any prevailing genre, had their own separate folders if I had more than a little of their music.

I now use my notes app for the music collection, with links to online services. It's an outliner, so I still have the hierarchical structure as the basis — it's more involved now, with top-level sections like ‘favorites’, ‘music from my childhood’, etc. Basically, it's organized by the criteria that I use when I'm looking for an artist, album, or tunes (just like other notes are tailored to me looking for them). But also, the app allows tags for the notes, so I can list e.g. metal records from the entire collection. Can't really do that in the filesystem unless you put something like ‘#metal’ in the artist/album directory names, or use a file manager that can read id3 tags, like Total Commander.

MacOS supports tagging for files, but it's not portable between platforms, the tags might not be preserved by some apps when copying files, and idk actually how to search by the tags.

music/artist/album/songs & use a various artists folder for soundtracks, etc..

It really depends on what you need: I personally have circa 900 album at the moment, I just use "music/albumfolder" tagging with Picard and using QuodLibet as player. I don't like/have "Various Artists" albums, usually they are bad stuff.

MusicBrainz Picard is a very, very powerful music library managing tool. You can set it to monitor any import folder you want and follow a specified template.

Personally, I use a simple

[Drive]\Music\[Artist]\[Year]-[Album]

Anything more than that gets tricky with the media server

Organize them by beats per minute.

there's a kind of file system that works by tagging. the BeOS guys invented it, and there are FUSE versions. with a tag-based file system linked to your music storage you can basically create a directory called "funk" and it will automatically fill with every file that has that tag. or you can create like "1970s/upbeat" and you'll get every upbeat track from the 70's in that directory, while still having the files reachable from "funk". there are even specific ones for id3-tags.

all of which to say, don't worry about it.