mDrummer: Best practices for organizing 3rd party drum samples

[Annabanna]

For mDrummer users with large libraries of 3rd party one-shots:

I currently have an insanely large drum library generally categorized into subgroups llke snares/analog snares/808 snares/processed 808 snares.

Beyond that, are there any specifics about using the samples within mDrummer that make it easier or preferable to use some other sort of organization / tagging / naming, etc?

I've got so many samples it would take a month just to listen to each and properly categorize the ones that haven't been done already, so this is no small thing, but wondering if there are particular tips/tricks specific to mDrummer that have made the recurring use of favorites, or genre tagging, or anything like that easier with minimal effort.

For instance, I found with Battery that it lacked tagging/favorites management, but that it had a simple generic drag and drop pad layout, so it was simple to set up kits like one where every pad was a different Linn kick drum sample so I had all my fav Linn kick drums within that kit. I'd then have another instance where I could quickly load a kit that was all my fav Linn snare drum samples, etc.

mDrummer doesn't have that sort of visual simplicity / generic pad swap, though, so maybe there's a better method that takes advantage of the way mDrummer is set up and better utilizes it's features to navigate favorites without sifting through thousands of samples each time.

[MeldaProduction]

I'd recommend:
- Placing all the samples to say D:/Samples
- Opening MDrummer, going to MSampler and setting the "Custom path" to D:/Samples. That's just in case you'd move it in the future, to simplify things.
- Using the Automatic sample import. It will make random drumsets and components, so you won't need to deal with that and since you probably don't know exactly which sample you want, you'll simply rely on the randomizer