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When I did dual-boot, I almost always used a dedicated partition or drive for shared media. Back then, it was usually formatted as FAT32, but sometimes NTFS. These days, I'd probably make it exFAT, since it supports large files without the hassle of permissions, and is itself supported by both Windows and Linux.
As for organizing things, I treated the drive as if it were a file server (which is what I use now). The general hierarchy looks like this: