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Organizing My Media
DanoRoo:
Thank you guys. glynor, your last post looks like it may be the answer to my problem, if I can just understand how to configure the "Directories" and the "filenames" fields to reflect the structure of my collection. In Windows, I have a series of folders starting with ABBA and ending with ZZ TOP. They are listed alphabetically. Inside each folder resides the albums by that artist. Inside each album folder is the individual tracks of that album. Of course, with classical composers, the folder contains albums by various artists (orchestras) and conductors, all performing the works of that specific composer. All in all it's a very basic structure. If I want to hear the live version of Allman Brothers "Whipping Post", I just double click Allman Brothers > Live at Fillmore East > Whipping Post. How do I get MC to get rid of everything it has already imported and re-import all my audio files using the structure I described?
DanoRoo:
What I am hoping to do is to navigate, in Theater View, through my collection in the same way it is arranged in Windows. Artist > Albums > Tracks, without changing that structure at all. No "unknown artist" or "unassigned", or any other ambiguous terms, unless those terms exist in my files.
csimon:
You could create a custom view in Theater View with 2 categories - Artist and Album - but instead of defining these in the view as Library Fields, define them as an expression instead. You can then use the Filename fields in the expressions to extract the artist and album from the directory path of the physical file. I'm not expert enough in the expression language to give you an instant solution and I can foresee that it might be tricky if the folder depth is not consistent and varies from album to album, but this is a way that you can ignore the file tags and browse by the folder structure instead.
glynor:
--- Quote from: csimon on February 14, 2013, 05:14:51 pm ---but this is a way that you can ignore the file tags and browse by the folder structure instead.
--- End quote ---
There's an easier way than that, but then you're missing out on much of the power of MC. It would be better to fill the tags, and should be relatively painless.
DanoRoo, can you post some examples of the exact pathnames (from the drive letter on to the extension) for some different examples from your library? If you have more than one "scheme" that you use, give a few (or all) of them to me.
I'll post some tutorial-like stuff later tonight or tomorrow.
sla:
- Yes you need to move from folders to Tags.
JRiver can import the data from the name of directories and the name of the file to tags.
For instance I have my music organized like this:
Directory: Artist - Year - Album
File: Track# - Artist - Song Title.
You can try to do "Fill Properties from Filename" option and in my case I do "Manual":
Directories: [Artist] - [Year] - [Album]
Filename: [Track #] - [Artist] - [Name]
I am not sure how one can run this automatically for the whole library - but I am new here so maybe some other people can help.
[there is a "Automatic" setting there so maybe that is how your library got organized]
There is also fantastic tagging program Mp3Tag [tags mp3, flac,...] which allows batch writing to tags from file names, also it can look-up automatically data from online databases (freedb,amazon,...)
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