Create album for complete artist collections

MusicBrainz Picard
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Hi,

For any big multi album collection, it can be handy for the scripting to generate a folder mentionning the year and album year, especially to browse in physical mp3 players.

Although reading on this topic, I could not quite understand were to find a way of scripting this easily.

Help would be much appreciated !

Thanx Jon

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Are you talking about Picard?

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Hello, yes indeed, thanks for asking

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Not totally sure about what you are asking, but if you’re looking for a way to arrange your files while tagging with Picard, have a look at File Naming Options — MusicBrainz Picard v2.13.3 documentation

You have plenty of examples on this thread: Repository for neat file name string patterns and tagger script snippets

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Hi Zas,

Thank you for your answer, I’ll check into that for sure.

The idea is to automatically create album directories, as below :

“Beethoven 2020” Complete works of Beethoven, 118 CDs.

As configured now, Picard generates the whole 118 CDs in only one folder, with 01 - 01 - title etc (the first number being the album, the second number being the title order number.

This is nice for computer listenings but very harsh to browse when on my mp3 players (browse down with the finger to get to the 20th CD is already a sport in itself)

I would want Picard to generate a subfolder for each album number.

I tried with this command line :

%albumartist%/%album%/$num(%tracknumber%,2) %title%

…with no success at all..

Thanks