Which software to organise MP3s?

[darael]

I've a few MP3s, many of which go back a long time. I've been keeping them in different folders which has served me well - until I want to find something, then find myself looking through a couple of folders and sub-folders before finding what I want.

Is there any software out there that can scan a folder of MP3s and spit them out in another folder, but nicely organised by artist and album? I imagine there'd be folders with artist's names and the sub-folders in these folders would be albums.

I have seen software that can scan MP3s and tag them, but I really want software to organise the physical MP3s for me.

 

[Armageus]

Pretty sure that MP3Tag supports file renaming and creates folder trees e.g. artist/album based on the Tags

Mp3tag - the universal Tag Editor (ID3v2, MP4, OGG, FLAC, ...)

Mp3tag is a powerful and easy-to-use tool to edit metadata of audio files.

www.mp3tag.de

 

[Buffalo2102]

I guess we are talking about Windows software?

Try MusicBee - it's a great player and can organise your collection too. You'll have to do a bit of reading to find out how to do it though - https://musicbee.fandom.com/wiki/File_Organization

Probably teaching you to suck eggs, but whatever you end up using, do a complete backup before you start

 

[Pulseammo]

I use https://picard.musicbrainz.org

Which is an auto tagger, but it will then save the files categorised into Artist -> Album folders.

Edit: Mind you maybe that's what you mean you've seen... why don't you want that? Organisation is the final step it performs?

 

[hornetstinger]

Foobar can move and create directories, and use specific naming structure.

You'd have to ensure tags are ok, otherwise it's got nothing to working on then use something like this in move file operation

%artist%\%album%\%track% -%title%

 

[darael]

Thanks all, there's quite a few suggestions to try. I seem to remember trying MusicBrainz Picard before and I liked how it scanned your music to make sure you had the correct ID3 information. But I didn't see any option to move the files into a sorted folder structure.

 

[spile]

Mp3tag does everything I want

 

[darael]

I must be missing something, as I don't see an option in Mp3tag to move files into folders.

 

[hornetstinger]

foobar does this but you have to add prefixes

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[darael]

foobar does this but you have to add prefixes

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Thanks, I'll have a play later on.

 

[Armageus]

I must be missing something, as I don't see an option in Mp3tag to move files into folders.

Rearrange Parts of File Names – Mp3tag Documentation

Documentation on Filename to Filename, a converter to rearrange parts of file names. Mp3tag is the universal Tag Editor.

docs.mp3tag.de

If you use the backslash character \ within the new filename pattern, Mp3tag creates new directories below the current working directory for relative paths or at the at an absolute folder location if it starts with a drive specification, e.g., D:\Music.

 

[CaptainCrash]

Thanks all, there's quite a few suggestions to try. I seem to remember trying MusicBrainz Picard before and I liked how it scanned your music to make sure you had the correct ID3 information. But I didn't see any option to move the files into a sorted folder structure.

Go into Options > Options > File Naming, check the "Move files when saving" box and set your base directory where you keep your music library. Also check the "Rename files when saving" box and edit the script according your preferred directory structure (it uses the same syntax as foobar2000). Then when you perform a save operation make sure the "Rename files" and "Move files" under the Options main menu are ticked.

It looks a bit intimidating at first, but it's very powerful once you get the hang of it, and you can see what the path/filenames will look like as you edit the script.