Moving files with original structure?

[badbob]

What command in DOS would I need to type to move certain files from one directory to another, keeping original file structure intact?

Main directory
\Music\Artist\Album

Move all .flac files to \Music\flac\Artist\Album
Move all .mp3/other lossy files \Music\flac\Artist\Album

There are also .jpg/.png files in each directory for album art, so want to keep them together with respective albums too.

 

[badbob]

you've listed you want .flac files and .mp3 etc all to go to a Music\flac\ album.

oops yeah I mean flac in \flac, mp3 in \mp3 dir

Stucture is useful for having two directories, with lossy and lossless in seperate main structures. Structure system doesn't matter to winamp/slimserver it's just so that I can quickly select the lossless directory and convert those to mp3, leaving the mp3 directory alone.

Something like

cd\music
c:\music: Xcopy *.flac c:\music\flac /s

But move version of xcopy

Why in DOS?

More powerful copy/move feature.

 

[badbob]

or if you have enought disk space/time just copy it all, and then F3 in explorer, search for *.mp3 in the flac and CTRL+A, DEL, and vice versa for the *.flac in the MP3.

Yeah I've that in the past, when I had enough space on another hard drive. But at 100GB + and one thousand directories.

 

[badbob]

Because each artist has flac and mp3 albums, with hundreds of albums it'll take ages to do that. You can't just search .flac files as that won't keep original directory structure.

I believe there used to be a Xmove .exe, not included with MS-DOS but written by a third party that could do what I'm asking.