How to convert a string of albums in one directory to different sub-directories

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flyer

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• Dec 10, 2013

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Hello,
I just ripped a few hundred CD's with EAC and can't recall it asked me, when setting it up, that each album should come in a separate folder.
Now I have the Totaldac server, it appears I (the system rather) should have saved all the albums in separate folders instead of one continuous folder....

Any clue how to easily get this done?

Many thanks in advance.

 

garylkoh

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• Dec 11, 2013

• #2

Ouch! That's going to be painful.

Only way I can think of would be to sort the folder by date/time created. Then, at least you will have the files from each CD together (unless you had more than one drive and ripped two of more CDs at the same time). Open another window, create folders with the Album name and drag and drop from the long folder to new folders.

 

Julf

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• Dec 11, 2013

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Doesn't your music management software (such as foobar2000) offer you an option for sorting the music into subfolders automatically based on the metadata tags? I know I do it all the time (using beets on Linux), and I am pretty sure several of the packages for Windows have similar functionality.

 

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• Dec 11, 2013

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Thanks, will look into this. As well into the use of Tag&Rename.

In my music applications (Synology Audio Station, windows media player) everything always presented ok, the different albums with their artwork etc.

But in the MPad application on my iPad (needed for the Totaldac D1 Server), the artwork cannot be found which is a real pain... (relatively speaking of course - )

 

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• Dec 11, 2013

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OK, I found the solution: Tag&Rename does all the tricks (and more) in a rather convenient way. It allows you to change/add/delete the names of folders, files, metadata in one go, individually, filtered etc... + cover art fetching + ... virtually anything that has to do with the mgt of your music metadata.

I guess I will be buying the app because MPAD does not allow any editing of the metadata

C u!