I put this query under 'TECH' because it relates to digital audio conversion. But it is a matter of titling, labeling, and ordering rather than actual tech hardware.

Over years I have converted many LPs and tapes to digital format. Most of them were from my family and a few were purchased off the web.
My question refers to filing them in computer memory. My instinct was to “keep it simple” Artist, Album, Song or Performance. There are questions that are individualitic. I have a lot of classical music, and a lot of pop music. I personally separate the classical, such items as spoken word, but I don’t distinguish between popular music genres, and I’ve not gone ‘proper’ with using performers’ last names, so in my stored memory, Allan Sherman will appear ahead of King Crimson ahead of Pink Floyd. What I am curious about is I am seeing many people who use ‘periods’ instead of spaces. Now a ‘space’ in a label is a character as is a period, so if you have both kinds of labels, they will not alphabetize together.
Are there conventions for proper labeling and ordering of converted music?
I spent a lot of time playing old family broadway albums through my computer and using its soundboard to turn out wave files. Then I took the wave stream, broke it into the appropriate cuts, and converted those to mp3s.I had recognition software that could provide the labels for the cuts. I usually had to do a look-up on the album title, which would return with the album cover and labels for the cuts, but occasionally the program would correctly identify the album by the pattern of the cuts alone. Those labels I picked up off the internet did not have periods or dots between the words, but I don’t know if they adhered to any standard.
Writing this up has led me to superfluous wonderings as to whether Europeans have to worry about things like umlauts and cedillas, and how the hell the Chinese, Japanese manage to order their ideographic titles? What do librarian do on other planets?