Script to organize music.

I have about 2000 songs that need to be organized now (see my last topic to find out why). I was wondering if anyone has or knows of a script that can take a iTunes music file (mp3, etc.) and create a folder for the artist, create a folder for the album in the artist directory, and then place that file in it. If the folder was already created then just place that file in it. Don't you think this would be an awesome script. If someone can tell me how to get the music files information (artist, album) I can probally write it myself.
Leon

Provided you have "Keep iTunes Music Folder Organized" checked off in iTunes Preferences > Advanced > General.
If iTunes is already pointing at "folder X", you might want to use Advanced > Consolidate Library. If iTunes is not pointing to "folder X', you might want to drag it onto the Library icon in iTunes' Source window. In both cases, copies of all the tracks not in the iTunes Music folder will be copied into it and organized by artist and album. This will make sure that all of your music is accounted for. You could then either delete the originals that were not in the iTunes Music folder or else save them as a backup (although you should back up the entire iTunes Music folder). Also, I would double check that any files were correctly copied into the iTunes Music file before deleting them, if that is the choice you make.

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What is the best way to organize music by artist with various artist...

What is the best way in iTunes 7 to organize my music by an artist who has several songs that have appearances by other artist? I now have about 400 Artist, in my artist list.
1-Most of them are by the same Artist but with people who appear on their album as a special guest. What is the best solution for this?
2-The same Artist appear on someone else's album what is the best solutions for this? I would like to have as few categories as possible.
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Do you mean the Artist and the Album
Artist fields?
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artist(s) doing the song.
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who's album it is.
If there are featured artists on a song, I usually
take them out of the Artist field and put it
after the song title.
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How to organize music compilation?

Hello, community!
I'm new to OS X and iTunes. So I have a question how can I organize compilations. For instance I have compilation "The Rolling Stone Magazine 500" which includes hundreds of Artists.
What have I already done? I edited these tags: Album Artist = Various Artists and checked "The part of compilation" (I'm sorry for possible mistake in this point, I use Russian OS X). Now it's shown like one album and various artists in the appropriate tab. That what I want but I can't search music by arsis.
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deus4ko wrote:
Its great that you know how to access file attributes section on both PC and Mac. Without your clarification people would have been baffled.
Actually, they wouldn’t be baffled at all.
Since this is the iTunes for Mac forum, PC users generally won’t look here. and Mac users generally don’t care about Windows Properties...
Regardless of whether or not Paresh Devani solved this 2 years ago ( not sure how you know this anyway),
I actually read the posts in threads, rather than blindly posting.
I know it was solved 2 years ago because Paresh Devani selected the answer that fixed his issue 2 years ago & it was quoted in his original post… "This solved my question by Granavel on Feb 9, 2013 7:18 AM"
the solution is not on here and could be useful to others. People still have this problem today.
The solution is on here.
However, had you bothered to read the original post, you would see that the solution you posted is irrelevant.
Your solution will fix an issue, one that is completely unrelated to this thread...
No response is necessary.

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Organize music

hi,i am organizing my music in itunes.i got a question.will the organization of music in itunes,automatically organize main file?
i organized it before, it took me a week.it was great.but recently i added a extra hard drive. with all the moving around of files,it seems when i added my music back to itunes it was unorganized again.so this time when i organize i want to make sure it will be permenant.i thought, when i organized the first time, it would automatically organize in the main file location.so can anyone help me on how to do this.thanks for any help that is offered. dennis

Hi, welcome to Apple Discussions.
iTunes has two options that control media organisation.
*Keep files organised in the iTunes Media folder* controls whether files inside he iTunes Media folder are moved or renamed when you make changes to the tags. Life is probably easier if you just let iTunes do its thing but some people, like myself, don't like a few of the shortcomings such as file & folder names truncated to 40 characters. Iy you want to keep particular genres in separate folders then you should also disable the *Keep organised* option.
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How to organize music on Nokia 6300?

Hello,
How can I organize the music on my phone - Nokia 6300? I have created a few different folders but the music player will just put all the music files together?
Some of the music is actually audio books so I definitely don't want these mixing with actual music... I tried all kinds of stuff but I just can't seem to separate audio files into different folders or something. The manual doesn't provide any info either so I thought maybe somebody here could help.
Solved!
Go to Solution.

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Shell script to copy Music/Artists/Albums/Songs to Music2/Artists/Songs

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My Music folder is currently organized as follows (standard iTunes behaviour):
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OK, clear. For future runs, should I be better off runing the command in a directory on my Mac, and copy the resulting music folder to the USB drive?
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Can I Organize music in Artists and Albums on my MuVo N2

I can only play music on the "root" of my MP3 player (MuVo N200). Can anyone tell me if organizing i possible?
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Regards Preben

STOP!
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Artist</LI>
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Lenght</LI>
Even the album name, if i'm not wrong</LI>
You can install the explorer from your N200 CD-Rom and download it. You'll have to connect your N200 to the computer, offcource :smileyvery-happy:.
You can sort them with the folders also ofcource, but I think its a lot of work to search for each track the artist, when its written in the info. Than creating folders for EACH artist, and putting them into it... think my Media Explorer works faster.
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Message Edited by Jurriaandvm on 02-3-2005 2:43 PM

HT1660 how to organize music library?

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Start here: Grouping tracks into albums.
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