My new directory

[chrob61]

Hello everyone HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

I have a new MP3 player that won't let me load my entire library then put the songs into folder by artist. So, their suggestion was to take my existing directory of music and set up folders for each artist. I had success in loading my music to my MP3 player! I also think it will help when I add new songs, I can add them right into the artist folder.

For mp3tag, my music directory is Local Disk/My Music then there are several artists files. Do I need to create individual directories by artist now that the songs are in separate folders?

Thank you!

[ohrenkino]

I am pretty sure that decent players organize tracks by the metadata. Any folder structure should be irrelevant.
So, which tag fields have you filled? At least these should be:
ALBUMARTIST, ARTIST, ALBUM, TITLE, TRACK, perhaps YEAR.

Any structure that you create in your filesystem is mainly for you so that you find files more easily without the need to open a player.

[chrob61]

Sorry, but I tried with my AGPTEK A19 mp3 player to load the songs as they were in my library before. I had them by Artist, Song, AlbumArtist.....

When I tried importing all the songs, they wouldn't go into artist files. So, I couldn't search "by Artist".

It was the recommendation of the Amazon call center that I contacted to create individual artist folders.

[ohrenkino]

Are you looking for a way to create a folder structure from tags?
Then see the HowTos:

Converters to rename files or to import tags

How to rename files based on tags? Renaming files, creating folders and complete directory structures from tags can be done by using the [:mt_ttf:] Converter > Tag - Filename with a format string. A format string is used to describe the structure of the desired filename. Besides using normal placeholders (such as %artist%, %title%, ...) and arbitrary text (e.g., Music) it also allows for separating folders with the backslash \ character. Here is an example that renames the file based on the t…