Music player - auto organizer

Hi,
Is there any music player/organizer that automatically organizes the music/file in the disk instantly when i update a tag - like the way it does in iTunes?
As of now, I use Clementine. however, i edit the tags and then I need to organize it manually by checking the 'Organize files and setup the options like the way I want. However, its a bit time consuming and say when I again edited the tags of say 15-20 file, I would again have to organize it so that the files are placed in the proper directories and their subfolders like 'Genre/Artist/Album' etc. This feature is available in iTunes and the most interesting thing is that when I edit any title or artist os any of the files in the playlist, iTunes automatically and instantly updates the file in the disk and update its path as Artist/Album/Title.extension...
Is it possible in any of the linux based music organizer? Please share.
Regards,
swaroop

Beets music manager can tag files and afterward perform mass rearrangement of the files based on user specifications; mussort can organize an entire library by reading tags and arranging everything by <library>/<artist>/<album>/<track>.ext. The current Amarok can rearrange things just as Clementine can. However, I don't know of any music manager (or player) that does this on the fly. There are plenty of music managers that can automatically organize files, but they tend to be tools for you to manage a collection and not artificially intelligent maids that clean things up as you mess with them.
Think about it, though: Is what iTunes does even beneficial? Any chance the tedium you're experiencing is just the result of your process? There's really no need to change the tags on a single album, then move that one album, then start tagging the next album. Tag everything to your liking, then use a music manager to move everything at once. Or organize the files to your liking and then change the tags afterward, since in order to change the tags you have to have a general idea of what the title, genre, etc. are. By reorganizing the filesystem every single time you change tags, you're breaking up your workflow and causing spikes in CPU usage and disk I/O.

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