Being a former computer hardware tech, I hates software. All it ever seems to do is make my hardware appear broken. (Hardware is like a light bulb, it either works or it's broke and you replace it). Software gets tweaked every couple of weeks and it takes a PhD to keep up with the changes - (doesn't anybody still use the C:\> prompt anymore?)
Therefore, I'm not the guy to ask. I simply use Windows
Exploder Explorer to make old fashioned directories and sub-directories (they call them folders these days, but they can't be folded).
I have a terabyte external drive called "Music Archive". Under it I create sub-directories by genre, i.e. "Country Cache", "Blues Vault", "Soul Shack", "Rock Pile", Pop, Swing, Surf, Show Tunes and what-have-you (I file some stuff by decade - 50s, 60s, 70s et. al.). Under the broad categories, I drill down to the sub categories (Art Rock, Alternative, Classic Rock, British Invasion, Southern Rock, Heavy Metal, etc.), and then the individual folders for each Artist. It's easy to find Willie in "Country" or The Beatles in "British Invasion". Under the Beatles, I have sub-directories for John, Paul, George & Ringo's solo stuff ("Wings" is under "Paul"), plus "Live", "out-takes", "rarities", "videos" and in their case a "Tribute" sub-directory of Beatles covers by other artists.
Some stuff is a bit more complicated, but, I've learned by trial and much error - for example: dividing by actual album title folders leads to too many folders, too many duplicates and it taxes my weak brain. "Eric Clapton" is in the "Guitar Greats" directory. Under Eric is Cream, Blind Faith, Derek & The Dominos, etc. Gary Moore has "Gary Moore with Colosseum", "BBM", "Gary Moore with Thin Lizzy" and "Skid Row" (his late 60s/early 70s Irish band, not the American 80s hair band with Sebastian Bach). To me, it's intuitive, and I think software, left on it's own to handle my files would be a train wreck.
I do use a few programs that help me "tag" (ID3V1/ID3V2) file info. I use Winamp to tag my songs (Album, Artist, Track #, Publisher, Composer) and I also tag all my "shared" songs with my Drumbo Thunder sig - my kitty cat taught me to mark my territory. I get a huge kick when I see my downloaded files recycled somewhere.
I do use simple shareware called "audiograbber" (by Jackie Frank)
http://psyonix.com/wp-signup.php?new=www.audiograbber.com-us.net to "rip" CDs. It has FreeDB
freedb.freedb.org built in, that identifies most CDs and names the tracks for me so I don't have to squint at CD liner notes and type too much with my two-finger "Biblical" method of "seek and ye shall find". I use a decade old, one time paid subscription to
GoldWave, an MP3 editor that lets me chop album files into individual songs and has a million "effects" (echo, reverb, equalizer, fade-in/out, compression, etc. that come in handy, especially if you have your own music that needs remastering on the cheep like I do (about ten thousand cassettes that start life as massive .WAV files on the computer and need a "Lame"
http://www.dors.de/razorlame/index.php utility to convert to MP3s or other formats. The software gets complicated and I keep it as simple and cheep as I can because I hates software! Alas, my scaled down programs help me do my thing. Letting some auto-bot categorize my preious MP3s is a non-starter and would keep me awake nights. I just have to take the time to "prune" stuff every now and then, deciding where songs should live when they end up in the "to-do" folder.