[stevekemp]

I store my music beneath a common prefix, and try to file it neatly:

    /srv/music/
    /srv/music/$Artist/$album1/
    /srv/music/$Artist/$album2/

That allows me to quickly find things, although it doesn't work well for classical music, and I found that I tend to create subgroups for soundtracks which throws things off too:

     /srv/music/Soundtracks/$film1
     /srv/music/Soundtracks/$film2

For playing I use mpd as a music-server, and sonata to play it back. I also run the logitech media deamon thing to present the music to a squeezebox inside the flat.