Move songs from multiple folders to one folder by Artist

[lolganked]

Is it possible to take my current directory structure and move all my songs by 1 artist into a folder by artist name and not album folders inside the artist folder?

Folders Now:

Artist > Album > Song

Folders New:

Artist > Song

My file name has Artist - Album - Song name already. Kind of redundant to place them in their own folders.

Thanks in advance!

[paultaylor]

I wouldn’t say its redundant because many applications rely (or at least take advantage of) each album being in its own folder as it is not possible to reliably parse the filename.

But if you want to do it anyway you can:

1. First enable BaseFolder, SubFolder and Filename columns so you can see how Jaikoz splits the complete filepath into three sections
2. Check the SubFolder field just contains the artist/album part
3. Modify the mask in Preferences:File and Folder Correct:Rename Folder from Metadata changing the last line from

 ifnotempty2(albumartist,artist,folderseparator) + ifnotempty(album,folderseparator) + (disctotal>1 ? discno  + folderseparator : '')

to

 ifnotempty2(albumartist,artist,folderseparator) 

4. Run Action:File and Folder Correct:Correct SubFolder from Metadata to apply the mask