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How to create a folder structure based on multiple file tags ?

Hi,

For all my music files , I try to have exactly the same folder structure :
Music folder 1\Artist\(Year) Album\Track - Title

Unfortunately, a friend of mine has lend me some dozens MP3 with a different folder structure :
Music folder 2\Artist\Track - Title.mp3

All the MP3 are properly tagged, so I'd like to be able to automatically re-create a folder structure identical to mine, based on their tags.

In other words, Music folder 2\Artist\Track - Title.mp3 would go into Music folder 3\Artist\(Year) Album\Track - Title.mp3

Is there a software that could help me achieve this ?

Many thanks in advance,

Jose

How to create a folder structure based on multiple file tags ?

Reply #1 –
Jose,

Are you having a problem doing this with foobar?

I don't see why foo's File Operations>Move wouldn't work just fine.

Maybe I am missing something? I do it all the time.

something like

%Artist% /%date% %album%/[%track%] - %title%

How to create a folder structure based on multiple file tags ?

Reply #2 –
Quote from: nightfishing on
Jose,
I don't see why foo's File Operations>Move wouldn't work just fine.


Works perfectly fine with me, and I find it very effective in doing so, it's very quick and  I have no troubles.

How to create a folder structure based on multiple file tags ?

Reply #3 –
If you are using linux, there is an amazing tagging tool called easytag that can literally do pretty much anything you could conceivably want with tags, file renaming, directory structure with as many files as you want at once.

For me, amarok and easytag are more than a substitute for foobar2k in linux.

Sam

How to create a folder structure based on multiple file tags ?

Reply #4 –
Quote from: nightfishing on
Are you having a problem doing this with foobar?

I don't see why foo's File Operations>Move wouldn't work just fine.

nightfishing, you are not missing anything. The thing is that I'm still quite a beginner with foobar, so I don't master all the functions of this wonderful software (yet). I have already used the File operations > Move and Rename functions, but I hadn't even thought that the Move function could recreate a whole folder structure ! 

I'm trying this right away. Many thanks for the tip, that's exactly what I was looking for ! 

(and you know what ? in fact I was secretly hoping that someone would tell me "foobar can do this"  )

@sammydee : I'm about to use Debian for my NAS, but I'm keeping XP for my HTPC. I'm sure amarok and easytag really rock, and I'll try them...  some other time. Thanks anyway.

How to create a folder structure based on multiple file tags ?

Reply #5 –
Jose,

I was wondering if you saw this post before:

Is this what you are looking for?

Enhancement #1

Now iTunes Users with "Keep iTunes Music folder organized" setting disabled, can use iTSfv to add new music to the library to a specified folder in the folder structure they like to have.

For example, if you have Default Music folder location set to be F:\Music in iTSfv Options > Explorer and you have music folder structure set to %Genre%\%AlbumArtist% - (%Year%) %Album% then when you add / drag new music (e.g. Artist: Infected Mushroom, Album; Vicious Delicious) to iTSfv it will first copy the files to F:\Music\Psy-Trance\Infected Mushroom - (2007) Vicious Delicious folder and start adding to iTunes
This way you can overcome the limitation of iTunes organizing music as %AlbumArtist%\%Album%.

More: http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index....st&p=537742

Cheers,
McoreD

How to create a folder structure based on multiple file tags ?

Reply #6 –
Quote from: Jose Hidalgo on
nightfishing, you are not missing anything. The thing is that I'm still quite a beginner with foobar, so I don't master all the functions of this wonderful software (yet).


You should have tried in the 0.8x days. I gave up on foo at least a dozen times before I finally figured out how to use it.

Today's version is much more user friendly (if you can believe that).

How to create a folder structure based on multiple file tags ?

Reply #7 –
WMP also does custom folderization, for what it's worth.
EAC>1)fb2k>LAME3.99 -V 0 --vbr-new>WMP12 2)MAC-Extra High

How to create a folder structure based on multiple file tags ?

Reply #8 –
Sure I can believe that nightfishing : I tried 0.8.3 at the time, and trashed it right away because I thought it was some weird 'geek-only' thing that required hours of programming before something acceptable came out (the fact that I already knew iTunes at the time may have helped in my quick trashing  )

Now things are different : I have ripped my entire CD collection to FLAC, and since iTunes still can't handle FLAC files (not to mention tag them correctly), I've begun using foo's 0.9.5 + Facets. And I just won't come back to another app. foobar is now quite exactly what I was looking for.

So what about iTunes ? Well, my friend McoreD knows that well because I've bothered him many times in his wonderful app's thread : I'm using iTunes and iTSfv mainly for getting all the excellent artwork from the iTunes Store (and now for lyrics files too !).

How do I do that ? Well, it's kind of weird but it works : I have a mp3 copy of ALL of my FLAC files in iTunes (an unhearable copy - smallest possible size, 8kbps mono !!!) and an iTMS account, so iTunes can fetch all the artwork automatically for me. Then I'm using the excellent iTSfv for getting the artwork out of iTunes and storing it in convenient folders.

So thanks to foobar I can handle all my music libary the way I want. And thanks to iTunes / iTSfv (and sometimes AlbumArt) I can get nice and crispy artwork (often much better than the scanned artwork you can find elsewhere) and lyrics.

Folks, isn't life easy sometimes ?