Posted by Ratedr on 07/31/07 16:51

My reason is twofold.
1. I run an FTP and to just have every song sitting there in one big
folder, is really condusive to running a clean FTP. I like to give
the people who link to my ftp a clean easily searched ftp site. this
way they can download maybe 1 album only, etc
2. I am going to be putting these songs on a guy at works computer who
would NEVER be able to figure out what you said, so Im putting them by
folder, so he can play just one album, etc. Yes I know I can also
make playlists and have them link to one large directory, but again,
its for the look of it

I understand what you are saying and fully agree that your idea might
be easier and more functional, but on the HD it still doesnt look as
good.


On Jul 31, 12:28 pm, "dadiOH" <dad...@guesswhere.com> wrote:
> Ratedr wrote:
> > Is there a program that will read the ID3 tags from a selection of
> > Mp3s, and then create folders based on a criteria?
>
> > For example. I have 1000 beatles MP3s in one folder (c:\mp3).
> > These 1000 mp3s are actually say 70 albums. Rather than having to
> > do file--
> >> new folder and naming each of 70 folders the names of the
> > albums ,then copying and pasting the 15 songs that are in that album
> > to that folder, I was wondering if there was something to automate
> > the process. It would look in the ID3 tag, see the album is called
> > Yellow Submarine, then create a Yellow Submarine folder (bonus
> > points for moving those files into the folder for itself!:)
>
> Yes, there are numerous tag editors that will allow folder creation by
> using tags. Tag&Rename is one.http://www.softpointer.com/tr.htm
>
> But why would you want to? IMO, it is much easier to use an MP3
> database program that will let you find any file using any criteria in
> a heartbeat. Much easier than drilling down through a bunch of
> directories. Using such, I find it handy to just dump 700 MB of files
> into each directory; said directory contains the same files as its
> backup CD.
>
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