Posted by Ratedr on 07/31/07 17:48

Disregard last email. spoke too soon...got it

On Jul 31, 1:44 pm, Ratedr <raskinsc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> for the LIFE of me I cant figure out how to make it do that folder
> thing you said. When I go to rename the folders, it just renames the
> MAIN folder (c:\Mp3) to the first Album Title in that folder rather
> than creating like 30 folders
>
> On Jul 31, 12:28 pm, "dadiOH" <dad...@guesswhere.com> wrote:
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> > 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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> > dadiOH
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> > dadiOH's dandies v3.06...
> > ...a help file of info about MP3s, recording from
> > LP/cassette and tips & tricks on this and that.
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