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funkyblue
Howdy,
I have just finished ripping about 50 cd's in EAC. I just realized I had my single profile selected.
Now each track is just Artist - Title.

I wanted Artist - Album \ TrackNumber - Artist - Songtitle.flac

How do I convert? I have used mp3tag to convert tags to file name. (Each song now has proper numbers)
All I want to know is there a program I can use that will read the album tag and make a directory, and move the files?

Cheers,
Scott
DocterD
QUOTE(funkyblue @ Oct 5 2006, 05:02) *

Howdy,
I have just finished ripping about 50 cd's in EAC. I just realized I had my single profile selected.
Now each track is just Artist - Title.

I wanted Artist - Album \ TrackNumber - Artist - Songtitle.flac

How do I convert? I have used mp3tag to convert tags to file name. (Each song now has proper numbers)
All I want to know is there a program I can use that will read the album tag and make a directory, and move the files?

Cheers,
Scott


use foobar2000's "Rename, move or copy files" function.
Remedial Sound
foobar2000 does this quite well.

You can also do this with mp3tag by going to Options > Convert > Filename and modifying the Tag - Filename formatting string. Use the backslash "\" to denote directories. For example:

%artist%\(%year%) %album%\$num(%track%,2). %title%

would yield:

Joe Blow\(1976) Rings of Uranus\03. Deepspace Superwank

The only drawback is that the directory structure is created within the active folder, whereas foobar allows you to specify an output directory.
funkyblue
Thanks smile.gif It worked..I used mp3tag.
My only other issue is that 10% of the albums were Various. Using this method it put each song in a separate folder. Is there anyway to fix this?
Thanks
Remedial Sound
Perhaps this might be good formatting string fo VA albums:

Various Artists\(%year%) %album%\$num(%track%,2). %artist% - %title%

This is just a suggestion - script your formatting string however you want!
Fandango
Mp3Tag has powerful scripting engine, my Tag->Filename command string looks like this:

CODE
$if(%album artist%,%album artist%\,%artist%\)%year% - %album%\$if(%discnumber%,CD %discnumber% - ,)$num(%track%,2) - $if($eql(%album artist%,Various Artists),%artist% - ,)%title%


It detects, Various Artist albums, pads the tracks automatically to 2-digits, adds a "CD 1 - " before the track's file name when it's a multdisc album and a DISCNUMBER tag is present.

With only little modifications it works the same in foobar2000.
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