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

Hi,
My Music folder is currently organized as follows (standard iTunes behaviour):
Music
Artists
Albums
Songs
Artist1
Album1
Song11
Song12
Song13
Album2
Song21
Song22
Artist2
Album1
Song11
Song12
Album2
Song21
Song22
Song23
etc.
I would like to copy this Music Folder to an USB flash drive, but without the "Albums" level, i.e.:
Music2
Artists
Songs
Artist1
Song11
Song12
Song13
Song21
Song22
Artist2
Song11
Song12
Song21
Song22
Song23
I assume that an unix shell script is able to do this, but this is beyond my skills
Or do you know a software that can manipulate files in such a way?
Thanks in advance.

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?
No, the optimum solution would be to format the thumb drive with the HFS+ filesystem. You could use cp, ditto, or rsync will the proper options and not copy the file fork to the thumbdrive. Or you could filter out the file forks in the two find commands.
ls | while read dir; do
    find "${dir}" -type f ! -name "._*" $ -name "*.mp3" -o -name "*.m4a" $ -print0 | xargs -0 -I '{}' mv -n "{}" "${dir}"
done
find . -type f ! -name "._*" $ -name "*.mp3" -o -name "*.m4a" $ -mindepth 3 | while read file; do
     base=${file%\/*}
     base=${base##*\/}
     mv "${file}" "${file%*\/*\/*}"/"$base"_"${file##*\/}"
done
The warning or error messages are innocuous anyways.
OK. I removed them manually, which took me less than one minute. Should I add a "rm -r .DS_Store" step before future runs?
I wouldn't bother. Change->
find . -type d -empty -delete
to
find . -type d -mindepth 2 -maxdepth 2 -exec rm -rf '{}' '+'

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