The best way to organize your music and movies

Im not sure if this is fitted for itunes section or the mac osx section.
i was wondering what are your best methods for organizing your libraries?
im starting to get a fairly large collection of artists and albums.
here is my current set up in basic form:
The path is: MediaHD>Music>~Artists etc etc
i was thinking this might work too:
path would then be: MediaHD>Music>A>Artist etc etc
are there any advantages/disadvantages in iTunes with having extended path file names and is it easy to recreate/rebuild the library once its been changed?

When you rip tracks into iTunes, you have the option (in iTunes Preferences) to set it to "Copy files to iTunes Music folder when adding to Library." If you have that option selected, just rip and iTunes automatically files the tracks into their appropriate folders. You never need to touch the folders; you can sort files and find them in just about any way you want through the iTunes app's interface.
I'm not sure what you mean when you refer to adding to your back up of music. Are you putting them on the computer then later copying them to your external hard drive? If so, you could just back up the entire folder on the external. (Not sure if you're using backup software, but that would be most efficient.)

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