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[jgourd]

The "Assorted" checkbox in the Rename Files From Properties dialog is being ignored.

[Matt]

I can't reproduce this.

Remember that MC's automagic "Assorted" label looks at the location on disk, so once you move a file, it may change whether MC thinks it's assorted.

Can you give a step-by-step?

[jgourd]

Sure, I have a Genre\Aritist\Album hierarchy. One of the compilation albums has been scattered into individual artists folders.

I put all the tracks that make up the album on a list, select all of them, use  the Rename Files From Properties Dialog, check the "Assorted..." checkbox and hit go. The files end up getting renamed to the same individual artist folders as they were before. It doesn't matter if I rename to a different drive, the album is still scattered across multiple artist folders.

If I understand what you are saying, if I rename all the files into a single directory and then try to rename them with the assorted checkbox checked, then they will go into an Assorted Artist foler?

[Matt]

If I understand what you are saying, if I rename all the files into a single directory and then try to rename them with the assorted checkbox checked, then they will go into an Assorted Artist foler?

Exactly.  It's a little silly, but the album analyzer depends on the file's location.

Thanks JGourd.

[tlongacre]

Sure, I have a Genre\Aritist\Album hierarchy. One of the compilation albums has been scattered into individual artists folders.

I put all the tracks that make up the album on a list, select all of them, use  the Rename Files From Properties Dialog, check the "Assorted..." checkbox and hit go. The files end up getting renamed to the same individual artist folders as they were before. It doesn't matter if I rename to a different drive, the album is still scattered across multiple artist folders.

I am having this exact same problem. Is there a solution? I thought it was just a bug that was introduced recently (this worked up until 10.70 or so, I think).  Do we have to do something different than simply Rename Files from Properties with the Assorted box checked? I keep trying that and it does not work anymore. But I have no idea what you mean when you say "the album analyzer."

Thanks.

[Matt]

Add the column "Album Artist (auto)" to your view.  The value in that column will be used when naming the directories. ("(Multiple Artists)" gets changed to "Assorted")

This thread has more discussion about MC's automatic album type analyzer:
http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?board=3;action=display;threadid=19373

[tlongacre]

Hmm, I hate to be dense about this, but this was something I never had to figure out before, it just worked.

So now I have to do something to make MC recognize that a single album with songs by different artists should go into the Assorted folder under the Album name?

What do I have to do?

(I looked at the other thread and that just confused me more. Sorry).

[Matt]

It sounds like you have multiple albums in one directory.  Until you fix that, MC won't behave like you're expecting it to.

[tlongacre]

no I have one album in multiple directories, because each song is in a directory of the artist's name, then the album name (the album name is always the same, but duplicated under every artist's directory, with one song in it).

It used to be all I had to do to fix this was "rename file from properties" with the Assorted option checked. Then MC would automatically rename all the files as D:\Music\Assorted\album name\song name

And then it would tell me I had empty folders and I'd say yes, delete them and presto chango! All organized!

But now, nothing happens. The songs all stay in their various subfolders under the artist's name.

Well, I do have multiple albums in the Assorted directory, that is true. I thought that was by design. This is in fact how I want it to be. Did this change somehow? It was MC that did it this way.

[tlongacre]

Well, I'm home now, Upgraded to .74 and put the Album Artist (auto) field in my view. I see what you mean that albums that are proper and have multiple artists have (Multiple Artists) in that field and the albums that I am having problems with don't.

But I picked an album (A Day in the Life of Africa), I selected all the songs and tried to change the Album Artist (auto) field to (Multiple Artists) and it wouldn't take it!

So what do I do? I can't do it by Rename File from Properties, I can't do it manually by putting (Multiple Artists) in this field. . .

[jgourd]

OK,

I have verified that renaming all the files into a genre\album hierarchy so they are in one folder and then using the Artist\Album with the assorted checkbox does work.

I agree with the others that it would be nice if you didn't have to perform this extra step since it used to just work. Perhaps this is one of those things that needs a "force" option checkbox indented under the "Assorted" checkbox.

[Matt]

I've tried to explain the album analyzer behavior here:
http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?board=3;action=display;threadid=19399&start=0

[tlongacre]

Well, I thought I knew what you were talking about because one of the albums I am trying to fix would have, in the end, had two files of the same name in the \Assorted\Album Name\ directory (one .wma, one .mp3), so I moved the .wma file.

But this is still not working.

I do NOT have "files from multiple albums in the same directory". That's the whole problem.

I have one file from one album in one directory. I have these spread all over my disk for this one album. So I have 14 directories called "A Day in the Life of Africa" each with one file in them. Each of those directories are subdirectories under the name of 14 different artists which are all subdirectories of D:\Music.

As far as I can tell this does not fit your criteria for when this should not work. However, it is not working. (This being -- using "Rename File from Properties" with the Assorted button checked and having MC realize that this is all one album with Multiple Artists and moving all the files to a directory of the Album Name under the Assorted Directory.)

[jleerigby]

tlongacre.  You need to tidy things up a bit.  once you have rename files will work just fine.

To sort out the multi-artist files that are scattered around your hard disk do this:
- select all the files in MC
- Rename files from properties
- in the base path field type the path of your assorted album directory e.g. for me it would be D:\Jukebox\My Music\MP3\Assorted\
- in the file name field just put [album].

That will get all the erraneous multi-artist files in the proper place.  Once this is all tidied up rename files from properties will work just fine.  

[tlongacre]

J. Lee,

This is exactly what I am trying to do that is NOT working.

well, I'll modify that, I am not manually entering the directory and the album name. Since I have "assorted" checked and the filenaming pattern is the one I always use, I am trying to let MC do this. Which it always has done in the past.

[tlongacre]

oh, and once I do this all manually, the rename files from properties won't be needed.

[jleerigby]

It's not that big a job to identify the affected files i.e. the multi-artist albums that are spread around the hard disk. Provided you can find all the multi-artist albums using an appropriate view scheme rule then you can rename the whole lot in one go to get them in the assorted artist folder.  Then going forward you'll use the correct file naming convention and rename from properties settings so it won't be an issue again.

Given the fact that I've taken the trouble to try and help you but your tone was a little sarcastic I think I'll let you work out how to find the affected files by yourself.  Have a good day.

[JimH]

tlongacre,
Be careful, please.