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+--Forum: Mp3/Tag Studio Support and Bug Reports
+---Topic: itunes folder structure reversal??? started by Elbow
Posted by: Elbow on Sep. 26 2006,11:46
Hello Magnus,
long time no see, all is well In Jappers, been busy at work an all that jazz.
Got a question for anyone out there who has had the misfortune of someone deciding to run itunes through your music directory. AAAAARG!!
My work hard drive is a mess now.
basically all the folders are named
artist / album that the song was on
so what I have got for example is a folder with many sub folders that have just one song inside (if that artist was on a various artist album.
Is there any to reverse this?
I'd like to at least get all my various artist albums back to normal.
Cheers
Posted by: Elbow on Oct. 12 2006,16:49
is there anybody ooooout ttthhere?
Posted by: Magnus Brading on Oct. 13 2006,23:24
Hey Elbow, sorry for the long reply time, there was a technical problem with the board that made it not notify me of new posts.
Anyway, nice to see you around, and glad to hear all is good over at the other side. 
I'm not completely sure about what you want to accomplish, please give me an example of how you want to name/organize your music album folders, and I will do my best to help you!
Posted by: Elbow on Oct. 15 2006,17:34
Hiya,
glad to see your ok,
basically itunes was thrown thru the music folders and it created something like this
G:\Music\Creed\Now That's What I Call Music! 6
what its done is its put just one song in the last folder,
Im just thinking that your proggy cant move files can it?
I'll wait for an answer before I get into it
Posted by: Magnus Brading on Oct. 16 2006,01:42
Yes, it can move files. So just tell me a little bit more about which structure you want to move the files into, and I'll do my best to assist you.
Posted by: Elbow on Oct. 23 2006,15:11
okey dokey
So this is what iTunes has done.
My folders are all named like this
Artist/Album/
this is fine for their own albums but its a pain when its a various artist album
then they are named for example
Janest jackson/Now thats What I call music
with only one track in the folder
I'd like to get all the various albums back to normal
hope this helps
Posted by: Magnus Brading on Oct. 24 2006,11:23
Ok, if you can just move all the (newly created by iTunes) top-level VA artist folders (or the non-VA artist folders, if that's easier for you) to a separate folder. Then perform an auto-rename operation in the VA folder, using absolute path mode and e.g. the following template:
c:\temp<\><Album><\><OldFileName>
Posted by: Llamatron on Oct. 30 2006,20:01
The < DonationCoder Board > also has a free download that'll pull orphan files out into a main directory, and even delete the empty folders if needed. It's really handy for stuff like you're describing.
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