The folder path does not change to keep music organized neatly

[Christie Harris]

As I recall, both these already happen. If a directory is completely  
empty, then the source folder is removed from the hard drive. If  
there are any files remaining in that folder it is not removed. Other  
files could be things like .m3u playlists, cover images .nfo files  
whatever. Amarok has no way of knowing if you want to keep those.
If you edit tags or rename files, if you have "watch folders for  
changes" checked in the collection settings, Amarok will  
automatically update your collection.

Christie.

On 10/09/2007, at 5:48 AM, Andrew Ash wrote:

> 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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