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Title: Re-organize music (in folders)
Post by: stiv32 on April 01, 2014, 05:51:32 am

Hello everyone,

is it possible to change the folder structure of my music database to the structure of my playlists?

Thank you

Title: Re: Re-organize music (in folders)
Post by: JimH on April 01, 2014, 06:05:52 am

Not by playlists, but take a look at the Library Tools.  Rename, Move, and Copy can use metadata to build a folder structure.

Title: Re: Re-organize music (in folders)
Post by: stiv32 on April 01, 2014, 06:11:53 am

Yes I know that, but I have already organized my music in playlists, the way I need it to be, in folders as well.

Is it possible that you add this feature in the next versions of MC, and also the m3u8 playlist support for the handheld devices?

Thanks

Title: Re: Re-organize music (in folders)
Post by: MrC on April 01, 2014, 12:14:29 pm

Are your playlist names absolutely unique across all your playlist names?

Title: Re: Re-organize music (in folders)
Post by: stiv32 on April 01, 2014, 01:41:50 pm

No, there are some common names. For example under the Artist name there might be playlists with the name Rhythmical, Joyfull, Instrumental etc.

If I have to, I can accompany the common names with some sort of unique code.

Title: Re: Re-organize music (in folders)
Post by: MrC on April 01, 2014, 01:44:10 pm

So it seems then that a track can be in only one playlist ever (or how will you re-organize these into folders where there are multiple playlist names)?

Title: Re: Re-organize music (in folders)
Post by: stiv32 on April 02, 2014, 12:24:33 am

Yes, at the playlist groups I have in mind, a track is only in one playlist ever.

Title: Re: Re-organize music (in folders)
Post by: MrC on April 02, 2014, 01:29:45 am

Then it would be possible to collect all the playlist "paths" (which would provide the basis for your folder structure) since the mapping of file to playlist would be one to one.  This bypasses the problem we discussed in another thread last week.

Title: Re: Re-organize music (in folders)
Post by: stiv32 on April 02, 2014, 05:13:18 am

I remember the discussion, but I can't imagine how this could be implemented there...?  ?

Title: Re: Re-organize music (in folders)
Post by: MrC on April 02, 2014, 01:01:45 pm

See WhichPlaylists:

    http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=85990.msg606767#msg606767 (http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=85990.msg606767#msg606767)

It took about 4 seconds to identify all the playlists by full path for about 18.5K files.