My music collection has grown to now approx. 4000 files over the years. They mostly consist of mp3 downloaded from different online shops at various bitrates, mp3 ripped from CDs I own, and DRM-free m4a files from iTunes.
In case this matters, I made quite some effort to have my files orderly saved with the following pattern:
/shared/music/artist/album/track# title.mp3
Now I plan to upload these to a cloud music service (I was thinking of Google Play). I understand that these services are capable of not actually uploading the music data from my files but rather just provide a link to songs they already have on their servers.
This is fine as because of limited bandwith, and because of a possible violation of copyright laws in my country I do not want my music files to be uploaded anywhere.
Also I do not want my files to end up like this:
/artist/album/track# title1.mp3
/artist/collection/sometrack# title2.mp3
/artist/best_of/yetanothertrack# title3.mp3
/artist/bonusalbum_from_japan_only/specialtrack# title4.mp3
How would I have to prepare my music collection to be properly recognized by the service? What applications are available to aid me in doing so?