Issue with Renaming files

MusicBrainz Picard
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1

Good Day,
I have been reading a lot of peoples posts and I still need help. This is my first time Cleaning up my Music. Rough numbers 1444 folders and I would say only about 200 artists. What is going on is “ft. Ft. Feat. feat. Featuring, featuring” is causing an issue my file structure I am trying to do.

Artist
/ album
/song

-simple right! wrong

what I’m Getting
Artist
/ album
/song
Artist ft.
/ album
/song
Artist feat.
/ album
/song
Artist featuring “artist”
/ album
/song

I have tried the plugin, I have tried many different scripts, I have tried file name script editor, as many different variations as I could thing of. Help! about to pull hair out… whats left…lol

$noop(Artist)

$if2(%artist%)/

$if(%album%,

$noop(Album Tracks)

$if($eq($or(%originaldate%,%date%),1),

%album%)/

%title%,

$noop(Non-Album Tracks)

%title%

)

2

Assuming that you’re matching your files to albums in the right hand pane before saving, I suggest you try setting your file naming script to something like:

$if2(%albumartist%,%artist%)/$if(%album%,%album%/)%title%

Note that this will set up the artist directory based on the Album Artist rather than the Track Artist if possible. For more information on file naming scripts, you might want to check out the Writing a File Naming Script tutorial.

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