Quirky result using mv Terminal command

I want to move some music from my hard drive to my NAS so
I go to my mp3 music folder that has subfolders in it of artists cd ...
now I use mv -v * /Volumes/Music/MP3
this MP3 folder also has all my artist folders in it
HOWEVER when it starts to move files I get something like this
U2 --> /Volumes/Music/MP3/U2/U2
U2/War --> /Volumes/Music/MP3/U2/U2/War
it takes the artist folder in my source, makes a new copy in my destination then makes a subfolder inside that
WHAT AM I DOING WRONG????

That's really odd behaviour... i occasionally use move when on the same partition and have never come across this. I tried to reproduce your problem with a collection of nested directories and cannot. Perhaps it has something to do with it being moved to a network volume... or a difference in file systems.
Anyway i would never use mv across volumes, always cp then rm instead just incase it fails. for example:
cp -Rv ~/Music/MP3/* /Volumes/Music/MP3/
Then double check it's all copied... easiest way is to get info on all the copied items and check the total bytes match the original (Command + Alt + i) in Finder. Then once satisfied remove the originals:
rm -Rv ~/Music/MP3/*
But like Linc said, unless you are really familiar with the command line and comfortable with it's unforgiving lack of safety guards... theres no reason why you can do the same in finder.

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