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Basically ive got a bunch of .wma .mp3 and god knows what other formats ive collected over the years, and because i was an idiot and left my drive plugged in when i was playing around i now have all my music as one HUGE lump. Before it was nicely sorted by artist and then subfolders with albums. Is there any app that will do this for me?
You can use "easytag" to rename files from the contents of the tags of each audio file. I think you can also create directories too using the tags - assuming the audio files have got tags :-)
Can you manually recreate the folder order and their name?
That would be a good outline to begin to reconstruct the sub-categories
Do you mean like make new folders for each artist in my libary? if so it would be very very tedious for me to do so
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Originally Posted by ArfaSmif
You can use "easytag" to rename files from the contents of the tags of each audio file. I think you can also create directories too using the tags - assuming the audio files have got tags :-)
Well everything is tagged with artist and album and song name, what im looking for is to take a bunch of files with tags and sort these files, make folders and put them in the folders. Looking at the easytag site it seems that its just an id3 tagging app? correct me if im wrong ^_^
Do you mean like make new folders for each artist in my libary? if so it would be very very tedious for me to do so
Well everything is tagged with artist and album and song name, what im looking for is to take a bunch of files with tags and sort these files, make folders and put them in the folders. Looking at the easytag site it seems that its just an id3 tagging app? correct me if im wrong ^_^
many thanks for the replies!
If you use the "rename File and Directory" scan within easytag you can use the following "Prefix Mask" %a/%b/%t to give you directories with the following structure :-
If you use the "rename File and Directory" scan within easytag you can use the following "Prefix Mask" %a/%b/%t to give you directories with the following structure :-
artist name/album name/song title
which is probably exactly what you want.
alright ill definatly give it a shot. was about to resort to a windows app.
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