Renaming music by genre

[David_Grant]

I have about 30,000 music tracks. I am trying to sort music files by genre. Then, I want classical music to be sorted by composer or allocated to a separate folder for multiple composers. I want other genres be sorted by album artist or allocated to Various Artists if there is more than one. For proper names, I prefer last name, first name usage.

My problem is keeping album tracks together. I tried using Google and AI to find recommended scripts and solutions without success. AI often recommends SongKong program settings that I can’t seem to find.
I am starting to wonder if I should have chosen Jaikoz instead.

One example: SongKong settings ChatGPT considers essential for this type of sorting which I can’t find…

Go to: Fix Songs → Classical
Enable:
Identify Classical Music
Standardize Composer
Group by Work
Fix Album Artist
Set Compilation Albums
Rename Files → Keep Album Together

[paultaylor]

Okay so there are two distinct functions:

• Fix Songs task to fix your metadata (but does not rename files)
• Rename Files task to rename files based on metadata

Fix Songs

So you have already ran Fix Songs , and the good news is that most of your songs are now correctly matched. Now it might be a good idea to look at the Inconsistencies tab and deal with the ones not matched, but this is just a small subset of your collection so not a key issue

Your ChatGbt output was referring to the Fix Songs task not the Rename Files task, some of the options listed are on the Classical tab, others do not actually exist in SongKong.

Rename Files

You have also run Rename Files task on a subset of files

And you are using the following mask DRG Rename Mask but I cant see what it is because it looks like you replaced with DRG Rename Mask -2 and this one doesnt include composer

ifnotempty(genre, '/') + 
ifnotempty(album, '/') + 
ifmultidisc(ifnotempty(pad(discno, 2), ' - ')) + 
ifnotempty(pad(trackno, 2), ' - ') + 
title

but your results seemed to

Going back to what you want

Then, I want classical music to be sorted by composer or allocated to a separate folder for multiple composers. I want other genres be sorted by album artist or allocated to Various Artists if there is more than one. For proper names, I prefer last name, first name usage. My problem is keeping album tracks together

Now for classical the issue is that if you use the Composer field in the rename mask and your album contains tracks by different composers then your album will get split. And when renaming a file we cannot see what other files in the same album have as composer so we cannot take action to do something else if we have an album with different track composers. But I do have a plan for a solution for this to add an Album Composer field that contains all the composers for the tracks on the album so is consistent value for every album. In the meantime it may be better to just use Album Artist for now.

For other genres you could use albumartists_index[0} to just use the first album artist, I think this might be better than dumping collaborations into Various Artists folder. To use lastname, firstname you can make use of the albumartistssort_index[0} instead.

I can sketch out a rename mask for you, but I dont have a current solution for Classical albums for albums with different composers if you want to group by composer, if you can describe exactly what you want I can have a go.

[paultaylor]

I had a look at the subset of folders you renamed, so Fix Songs shows you had two copies of the same album but only one was fully matched to MusicBrainz

When you ran Rename Files, only the matched files were moved to expected place

The other were put in Various Artists folder, I assume because they had no Composer field and your mask does something different if no Composer field?

Your Azulão album is split over multiple folders because of the multiple composer issue, since there are Works by diufferent composers if your rename mask uses the Composer field in the rename mask as a subfolder this is going to put them into different folders.