File Naming and Folder Hierarchy Convention
Here are the steps you would take to organize your music for .

1. First, you would first convert your personal audio CDs using a ripper such as Exact Audio Copy , or otherwise acquire digital music directly from a legal source such as follows:
   

   	Name	File Format	JukeANator Song Player
   	Apple iTunes	AAC	QuickTime
   	Napster 2.0	WMA	Windows Media Player
   	Microsoft MSN Music	WMA	Windows Media Player
   	Walmart Music Downloads	WMA	Windows Media Player
   	Music Match	WMA	Windows Media Player

   It is best if the songs are named using the following convention:
   

   Artist Name - XX - Song Name.YYY
   where XXis the track number and YYYis the file format such as .MP3, .WMA or .M4P (a.k.a. .AAC)

2. Next, you will want to scan the CD cover art, or otherwise acquire it from an online source such as http://www.amazon.com . The cover art should be named "cover.jpg" and should be sized to 250x250 pixels.
   

3. Finally, you need to place the contents of this digitized CD into a suitable folder hiearchy on disk. Let 's say that you have a hard drive, F:, where you want to store your music collection and we use the Billy Idol CD as example. We are going to categorize it as "80s" music. Thus, we create an "80s" folder, then underneath that, we create a "Billy Idol" folder. Any Billy Idol CDs we have we would create a folder underneath and then place the contents (songs, cover art and metadata) there. Thus, we might expect to see something like the following screenshot in Windows Explorer:
   

Compilation CDs
Under each genre folder of music, whenever you have a compilation CD, the solution is to create a "Compilations" artist folder and then put your compilation CDs there. Normally, when a CD is by a single artist, only the track number and song name is shown in the CD Panel (as the artist name is redundant), but for compilation CDs, the artist name for the song is needed, as the artist for the CD will be "Compilations" . The two CD panels below highlight this difference:

Movie Soundtracks
Movie soundtracks are handled very similarly to compilation CDs with the only exception being if you name the genre folder to be "Soundtracks" , there is no need to create a "Compilation" artist folder, you can put the Soundtrack CDs directly under the "Soundtracks" folder and JukeANator will be able to handle this. The reason being is that Soundtrack CDs tend to be inherently compilation-based.

Example Layout
The following diagram gives a more comprehensive example of how to organize your music:

                                
                                  D:\
                                  |
                                  Genre One\
                                  |       |
                                  |       Compilations\
                                  |       |        |
                                  |       |        CD Title One
                                  |       |        .
                                  |       |        .
                                  |       |        .
                                  |       |        CD Title n
                                  |       |
                                  |       Artist One\
                                  |       |        |
                                  |       |        CD Title One
                                  |       |        .
                                  |       |        .
                                  |       |        .
                                  |       |        CD Title n
                                  .       .
                                  .       .
                                  .       .
                                  |       Artist n\
                                  |                |
                                  |                CD Title One
                                  |                .
                                  |                .
                                  |                .
                                  |                CD Title n
                                  |
                                  Genre n\
                                  |       |
                                  |       Compilations\
                                  |       |        |
                                  |       |        CD Title One
                                  |       |        .
                                  |       |        .
                                  |       |        .
                                  |       |        CD Title n
                                  |       |
                                  |       Artist One\
                                  |       |        |
                                  |       |        CD Title One
                                  |       |        .
                                  |       |        .
                                  |       |        .
                                  |       |        CD Title n
                                  |       .
                                  |       .
                                  |       .
                                  |       Artist n\
                                  |                |
                                  |                CD Title One
                                  |                .
                                  |                .
                                  |                .
                                  |                CD Title n
                                  |
                                  Soundtracks\
                                  |
                                  CD Title One
                                  .
                                  .
                                  .
                                  CD Title n