Just tag and move...

[beginner]

Hi,

i’m almost going crazy. first, sorry for my bad english. we bought Jaikoz today and i have a few problems:

i have large unstructuredmusic-“library” like

unstructuredmusic\Michael Jackson - Thriller.mp3
unstructuredmusic\Music Old\The Beatles - Please Please Me.mp3
unstructuredmusic\Albums\Boney M\Nightflight to Venus\Oh my Lord.mp3

-> you can see, i have different variants and not a good structure.

Now the first step should be to get the right tag in the metadata-field with MusicBrainz. All my own data should be overwritten with MB data, other tags (like comments) have do be delete.

After this i would like to move (It is possible to copy the new-tagged-mp3 to another folder and not move? So that the original file is still in the unstructured folder) the new-tagges-mp3 filed to another folder like this:

sortedmusic\Artist\Album\Artist - Titel.mp3

Would you please be so kind and give me a short guide, what i have to make in the preferences for my workflow? I do not understand the concept with base-folder and “general” -> “move folder”

In the original, unstructured folder are sometimes nfo-files or text-files, is there are solution to delete them?

Thanks for your help!

[dkoh]

General>Base Folder is where your entire collection is. This isn’t really necessary and really should only be used if you have a smallish library and want to auto load when you start Jaikoz.

Save>General>Move Folder is where you want to move your files. This is where you would point to your “sortedmusic” folder. You can also define a deleted folder here, kinda like an additional recycle bin.

Set up your filters in:
File and Folder Correct>Rename File From Metadata and
File and Folder Correct>Rename Folder From Metadata
You would define everything after \\sortedmusic\, like “albumartist + folderseparator + album”. See http://www.jthink.net/jaikozforum/posts/list/4418.page

Now you have a few options as far as saving and moving. You can manually
Action>File and Folder Correct>Correct Sub Folders from Metadata
and
Action>File and Folder Correct>Correct Filenames from Metadata
and then
File>Save and Move

You can also manually see/edit what’s going on if you enable the “filename” and “sub folder” columns. Whatever it says in there is what it will be on save.

Or, of course, you can add all of these to the AutoCorrector. In the AutoCorrector list you have the added option of “Save and Move if Matched”, but you must make sure that you have your tags correct before you run the AC. If the AC matches to an incorrect release, or even worse a Various Artist, it can get real messy.

I would recommend copying a small group of files and testing it out manually before you commit to the AutoCorrector.

As far as deleting NFOs and HTMs and everything, I just search for . on the entire library, sort by type, and delete everything that isn’t a sound file. I’m not sure, but Jaikoz will probably leave these files behind in unsortedmusic where you will probably delete them later.