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[shAf]

I want to copy select artists to an external drive for using in my car.  The problem is navigating the artists with the car's audio system--i.e., there's no way to scroll fast or jump, and 1,000 artists therefore poses a problem with finding the artist "Wilco".

I could of course create subdirectories for genre, but even the number of artists in "Folk" or "Rock" poses similar problems.  Is there a way to have MC take the 1st letter of the artist and create subdirectories -A-, -B-, ...?

TIA 

[MrC]

You can do this with expressions in the Rename dialog in Copy mode.

Use something like:

   left([Artist], 1)\[Artist]

or even:

   fixcase(left([Artist], 1), 3)\[Artist]

for the folder name rule.  Ask if you need more help.

[shAf]

Thanks MrC! ... I'll play with those expressions, and if that results in more questions I'll be back