how to organize loose music files in to folders

[Sparky191]

Note that you can add more tags to the destination path by clicking on the tags in angle brackets <click me> . You can also add part of the path aswell. Like D:\my music etc. I mix and match depending on what type of material it is. For example...


Album
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E:\My Music\My Music MP3\<Genre>\<Artist>\<Album>\<Artist> - <Album> - <Track#> - <Title>


Soundtrack & Compilation
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E:\My Music\My Music MP3\<Genre>\<Album>\ <Album> - <Track#> - <Title> - <Artist>

Its very powerful. You can tag files based on their location in the filetree. Then you can relocate/reorganise them based on their tags. As the preview windows shows you the effect of your changes you can tweak and tweak the tags until you get it right.

I suggest you do it in small batches to start with as often the more files you select the less consistent their tags.

 

[Sparky191]

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Originally Posted by Chri5peed You're unable to type in English properly. It doesn't matter if the Metadata has nothing to do with the file system or OS, although thats your opinion. Theres a name for people who only follow the precise letter of their job contract and never do anything outside this to maybe help someone; Jobsworth's. So you think the OS shouldn't be doing this sort of thing? Even though its hardly a completely alien task.

Sorry I seem to be dislexic when typing. Which mistyping is confusing for you? I'll correct it.

Its not my opinion its just good software (and probably any system) engineering. Since you like sound bytes, you might say, You don't want a jack of all trades and master of none. You break the system down into specialised components. Taking a broad view. The OS is one, Applications are another.

Organising metadata is done at the application level. So what you actually want is a music manager bundled with XP. There is one, its called Windows Media Player. On the Apple its iTunes. Many people don't like them. Thats why its best to keep it seperate so you can use another application you do like. If it was built in, as you suggest people wouldn't have the freedom to choose another method of organising their music. They all do it slightly differently, and people have lots of disparete ways of organising their music.

Remember all the fuss about Microsoft unbundling IE and Outlook Express? Similar argument really.

 

[Sparky191]

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Originally Posted by litlharsh sparky, I see that there's the my computer thing, but to actually do physically put them in folders using mediamonkey, what do I do? I can't see the files, because they're loose in my documents, but I do have some folders there which I can see. I think I'll use the script if I don't get any other suggestions.

To start you have to let MediaMonkey scan your HD for music, or point it at the music. When you've done this, Under the my computer tree you see where files are located and what their filenames are. In the library tree you see the music organised by their tags only.

Some people and players use filetree, some people and players use tags. Different applications organise the music differently too. So bascially you are going to have to decide what you want to do, and start reorganising your music in that structure. Theres lots of help over on the MediaMonkey forums.

 

[lordgibbness]

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Originally Posted by Sparky191 To start you have to let MediaMonkey scan your HD for music, or point it at the music. When you've done this, Under the my computer tree you see where files are located and what their filenames are. In the library tree you see the music organised by their tags only. Some people and players use filetree, some people and players use tags. Different applications organise the music differently too. So bascially you are going to have to decide what you want to do, and start reorganising your music in that structure. Theres lots of help over on the MediaMonkey forums.

Quite a handy freeware tool that I've used in the past for file renaming and restructuring is 1-4a rename

Edit: It won't actually apply to you here most likely as it is a straight file renamer and won't read any metadata. Oh well!