The folder path does not change to keep music organized neatly

[Andrew Ash]

I've had the same issue.

What I ended up doing was to "re-organize" all the tracks in my
collection (I forget if that is the correct terminology) and then the
files were moved to folder paths that reflected their tags.
Unfortunately, this leaves behind all the empty, misspelled folders in
your music folder, which I found and deleted using KDirStat.  It's a
pretty hacky way to just keep the folder paths reflecting the contents
of the files.

The way I see it, there are 2 ways to address the issue:

1) when the collection is re-organized, empty directories are pruned
from the collection.  This method would ensure that re-organizing the
collection keeps the directory structure clean, but requires manual
human intervention to keep it that way.

2) whenever a track is renamed, its location in the collection is
changed to reflect the new tags.  This may cause problems when
renaming large numbers of tracks, though.   This may be alleviated
with some sort of mechanism to space out the renames, so as to not
stress the system too much.

I think the approach 2 is the best way to achieve the behavior you
describe, Checho.  Unfortunately, I don't have a patch that can do
this.  Who knows, maybe this issue has already been accounted for in
the upcoming Amarok 2.0!

Andrew


On 9/9/07, checho4 at yahoo.com <checho4 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> This is quite frustrating.  I have amarok 1.4.7, and when I change the tag
> on a song, the folder location stays the same.  For example, if I have Fur
> Elise by Mozzart, amarok would place it in the folder
> /PathToMusicFoder/Mozzart/Fur Elise.mp3.  If I change the artist to read
> "Mozart" instead of "Mozzart", the path continues to read
> /PathToMusicFolder/Mozzart/Fur Elise.mp3.  Is there any way to fix this?
> iTunes changes the paths, and I like that because everything stays so
> organized.
>
> Thank you.
>
> -Checho
>
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