Organize library files in Songbird
Description
Is your music library scattered all over your hard drive? Do you
wish that all your “Alvin and the Chipmunks” tracks
were organized into one directory? Well, now they can be with the
music library file organizer Songbird extension.
Simply install this extension using the Tools/Add ons menu in
Songbird. A new tools menu item will be installed, providing the
capability to organize your music library.
Oops. Didn't mean to add a comment. How can I delete this?
you can't. plus... the comment filter is pretty messed up. I'm gonna clean up the comments prior to official launch.
is that so! in that case let me add a little spammy here and there.
i shouldn't be able to vote for myself!
love the idea of this extension, but it doesn't seem to work for me. it installs fine, i get the extra "tools" option and everything. it asks me where i want the files to be placed. then when i click ok to begin the process it makes folders for the first artist and album title (in my case A.F.I.A.F.I.) and then does not copy any files nor continue making folders for any other files. tried it with version 0.2 and 0.2.5. i assume this could be because of the upgrade from 0.1 but everything i have read says it should work with 0.2 and 0.2.* thanks! ps - i read in the forums about your attempt to keep this updating, to ensure that all files were in the right place automatically. i like that idea. keep working!
I have the same problems like blocke. - Installation: OK - "Tools" menu item integration: OK - Possibility to choose a target folder: OK - Import of files to folder: FAILED One folder plus a subfolder is created in the target folder. No files are copied. I also LOVE the idea of organizing all files automatically. Please keep on develop this plugin! Greetinx Woko
Erik didn't mention, but he just uploaded a new version, so hopefully the problems in the comments have now been fixed, yes?
Erik, I just installed and used the Library Organizer add-on. When it organizes my files, if I have a directory which holds a compilation album consisting of various artists, it creates a separate directory for each artist. Personally, I think the album title should take precedence. Is there an option to do this? I am looking for a default artist name, e.g. "various", underneath which would be the names of compilation albums and within each compilation album would be the track title and artist. Thanks in advance. Ingemar
I had a similar problem to the above, but kind of different. I set the target directory to the same directory all my music is in, because I have all my music on it's own partition. When I ran it, it ended up consuming the remaining space I had on it without cleaning up my library much at all. Is their a way to get that space back. Other relevant information would be that I'm on windows xp and the partition is FAT32.
I don't know if this is a bug of something that wasn't considered when making this addon, but in windows if there are certain characters in the album name of a song, it stops it from being moved to the new directory. Things like ellipses, or question marks, and spaces.
It would be great if this add-on would have dynamic naming so you could say all music files go to "C:music