BlueGrimRX8

Well I am finally getting around to finishing all the organizing of my Mp3s and I have a request. I have a folder that has probably around 600 songs in it, all the files are named with the same format (Artist) - Song.mp3 but what I want to do is get all of the same artist in their own folder (a lot of the songs are not full albums, just random songs I like that I didn't want the whole album), right now they are all just in one folder and I want that one folder to have subfolders with all the artists names so that I can download cover art, etc.

Can anyone write a bat file to do this or is there a program out there that can do this easily as oppose to me going in and creating hundreds of folders?

I use Tag and Rename it for all the cover art, tag naming, etc.

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kirbycope

Use iTunes and set it up to where it organizes your music. Also tell it how to name your files or it'll default them to 01 Song Title.mp3

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BlueGrimRX8

Thanks for the suggestion, But I would like to try to avoid downloading another program, all of the music is organized, named, and tagged, just need it a little more organized in folders for album art.

Any other choices?

kirbycope

Without downloading another program(you bastard).... start clicking and typing away buddy.

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BlueGrimRX8

Hostile much geez....

The other reason iTunes wouldn't solve what I needed, when I transfer all the directories to the car PC and use Frodo to display album art, etc it will only read the folder.jpg file. And if I used iTunes to organize the music it wouldn't have seperated them into folders in order to save each .jpg in its respective folder. Or maybe it will and I am missing something.

kbyrd

In your first post you ask for a bat file or a program, then say you don't want to download a program?

I use "Tag&Rename". It's more awesome than monkeys that know kung-fu. Seriously. This app will read tags and rename directories of files creating folders along the way. It'll also take filenames, and create tags from the filenames. It's really handy for managing a large collection. It's very configurable.

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BlueGrimRX8

Sorry my first post wasn't clear......I meant I didn't want to download another program that only renames, writes tags. I did however specifically ask for a program that created the folders for me. It appears that iTunes will not do that, it will only organize them within the itunes interface.

Can Tag and Rename it (which I already have and use for tags and renaming the files) create the folders as you rename them? Didn't see this functionality but maybe I missed it.

My specific question was for a program that can run through a single folder and create multiple sub folders for each different artist in the main folder. I have seen a lot of people here do some creative and awesome things and thats all I was asking for.....

kbyrd

Yes, it will. Example:
I have a direcory full of correctly tagged song files.. call it e:\audio\scratch\. I have another directory that contains my collection, call it e:\audio\done\.

In T&R (more awesome than kung-fu-monkey vs. ninja fight) I specify a rename string like:
"e:\audio\done\<artist>\<album>\<track #>_<track title>.mp3"
When I hit rename, the files are moved from the scratch directory to the "done" directory, creating <artist> and <album> if needed.
(Note that this isn't actually my rename string, I don't remember the T&R magic characters right now).



Yea, I'd do this in Perl or Bash something and run it under cygwin, I think it would be painful to do in a Windows .bat file.

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kirbycope

Yeah it will. Thats how I do it. Select 'have iTunes organize my music files' and it'll tag and sort/put in folders like this;
My Music
iTunes
iTunes Music
Artist
Album
Files

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shotgunefx

I'd do it (and did) in Perl myself. I did something similar a few years ago. You don't need cygwin thought. Just get activestate perl and you'd be good to go.

Don't have the script handy but can recommend some modules

File::Find (For finding files recursively)
MP3::ID3v1Tag (Reading/Writing tags)
File::Path (For creating/deleteing directories).

Another suggestion would be to copy your mp3s to a test folder and work on the copies. Nothing worse than realizing you blew away all your files

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BlueGrimRX8

Sweet thanks guys, I will have to try to Tag and Rename It (more awesome than kung-fu-monkey vs. ninja fight) first since I already have the full version of that. Sounds like it will do what I was thinking!!

Thanks for the awesome help as always!!!

kbyrd

BlueGrimRX8: PM me if you have T&R questions. I'm no expert, and I certainly don't know everything about it, but I've relied on it for some time.

One thing to watch out for:
Since T&R is incredibly full of awesomeness it can write tags in Unicode. Some front ends (Centrafuse 1.4 and 1.5, but probably will be fixed in 1.6) don't handle these tags correctly. You can turn off Unicode somewhere in one of the option dialogs.

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BlueGrimRX8

Will do thanks for the help, gonna try some of these tonight when I get home and see how it goes.

Willy-Mach1

You can also tell it where and how you want it organized. Just a side note.

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