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More => Old Versions => JRiver Media Center 21 for Mac => Topic started by: srd2725 on September 21, 2015, 09:03:35 am
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Hello everyone,
I just purchased JRiver and I'm finding it to be a very powerful tool! Here is my situation: I have a fairly large (~16000 song) music library. Some of it is organized, some of it isn't. I would like everything to be organized on the hard drive in the traditional Artist->Album->Song file structure, and I would like every song to have the same naming convention (ie, 01 Song Name.mp3)
Basically, I'd like to be able to have JRiver scan my entire library and rename/reorganize everything according to this naming convention.
Does JRiver have the capability of doing this? Or are there any third party tools I should use instead? I know iTunes is capable of doing this, but I have some file formats that iTunes does not recognize.
Thanks
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Welcome aboard!
MC has a really powerful tool called Rename, Move, and Copy Files. It can be used to do a lot of different jobs associated with it's three words: Renaming, Moving, and Copying files. It was definitely designed for mass song renames like you describe to keep everything very consistently named including a directory structure that you choose.
It's a big powerful tool. Because it can be used in several different ways, it can be a little confusing when you first open it up. Glynor (a prolific member here) has written a really good wiki article on how to use RM&C. Here it is:
http://wiki.jriver.com/index.php/Rename,_Move,_and_Copy_Files
You will almost certainly want to use the Directories and Filename sections of the tool. You can save your work as a template, so you can use it again later too. Very nice feature.
Try it with a few files first and look at the Preview Panel before you press OK! If you can't figure some of it out, ask here and we'll give you a hand.
Good luck.
Brian.
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Thanks for the reply! I will give it a shot this evening when I'm home from work.
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I'm battling a 10 year old library of incomplete albums, disorganized tags and folders. Here is how I am doing it.
I use the Rename, Move, and Copy Files feature and a certain directory structure. I have an "Incoming" folder with everything I haven't processed, and a "Processed" folder that is my organized, tagged library. I created two views in the Audio tree: "Incoming" and "Processed" (filter is based on file path name). What I then do is:
1. Update tags, art, and other metadata on albums in the "Incoming" view.
2. When I'm happy with the album, I will right-click and run a Move to move the album into "Processed" and rename tracks/folders to conform to my standard naming template. You can save presets, so it's pretty quick.
It adds a bit of structure to the chaos and works great.