Hi, I would like to be able to rename the files, creating folders that have the type of music and inside the files with the name of the artist and the name of the song. Nothing else, but I don’t understand how to do it
How will Picard know what kind of music it is?
it find in mp3 tag “genre”?
Try the following (untested code) and see if that does what you want.
$if(%genre%,$getmulti($if($is_multi(%genre%),%genre%,$setmulti(genre,%genre%)),0),Unknown Genre)/%artist% - %title%
There is also a file naming script tutorial available in the Picard User Guide that might help you understand the script.
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This will only be as good as the data you use to decide the type of music and genre has 2 issues:
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Musicbrainz Genres are free form, and can be anything, multiple words, and since they are NOT curated, the quality is variable.
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Whilst I think genres are release related, they may vary by track - in which case your albums will get scattered rather than kept together.
Personally I group them by type manually - pop (inc rock - anything that might be in pop charts), classical, jazz/blues, comedy, shows/film scores.
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