How to Organise Music Files Before Mornye Scans Them

The scan believes your files

A library scan is an act of trust: the player believes your files about who made the music and where it belongs. Organising files before the Mornye music player scans them is simply making sure your files tell the truth, clearly, the same way every time.

None of this needs special software or a free weekend. It needs three habits, applied in small doses: a folder shape, consistent tags, and artwork that behaves.

One folder shape, kept forever

Choose the shape Artist, then Album, then tracks, and use it for everything. One artist per folder, one album per subfolder, track numbers at the start of file names so albums play in their intended order.

The shape matters less than its consistency. A library where every album follows the same pattern scans cleanly for years, while a cleverer scheme applied to half the shelves produces exactly the duplicates and orphans that frustrate listeners. Our notes on setting up your first Mornye library cover the neighbouring half of this topic.

Tags: the few that matter

Mornye builds its backbone from tags, and four fields do nearly all the work: artist, album, title and track number. Get those right and identical everywhere, and albums group perfectly, artists merge into single entries, and songs line up in order.

Spelling is the whole game. An artist whose name appears with two spellings across albums is two artists to any honest scanner. Pick the spelling you want on the shelf, apply it everywhere, and let features and guests live in the title field instead.

Artwork that behaves

One square cover image per album, reasonably large, either embedded in the files or kept in the album folder, makes every screen in the player look deliberate. Mixed sizes and stray images picked up from the wrong folder are why some libraries look haunted.

While you are there, evict the clutter: text files, half-downloads and duplicate copies hiding in album folders. The player ignores most of it, but a clean folder is easier for you to back up, move and understand at a glance. There is more on this in backing up your music library, written from the same test library.

The five-minute weekly tidy

New music is where disorder enters, so meet it at the door. When an album arrives, give it the folder shape, check the four tags, confirm the artwork, and only then let it join the library and be scanned in.

Five minutes per arrival, plus one old album repaired per week, will transform even a inherited mess within a season. Libraries are gardens, not projects, and Mornye rewards gardeners every single scan. It is exactly what the Mornye music player was made for: a calm home where your shelves sound as good as they look.