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Jul 20, 2004

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ledge posted:

The move file command in foobar is pretty powerful. In the context menu it is in File Opertations -> Move to. You can then setup a title formatting script to set the file pattern you want to use and then save that and run it on new files. This will create folders and so on if they don't already exist.

I have
\%album artist% - %date% - %album%\[%discnumber% - ]%tracknumber% - %title%%fileext%

Foobar will not move files without user intervention though, so you'll have to run this manually on any new files.

This is what I do and it's by far the best way to maintain my library. Having it automated would be nice, but I always have to fix/remove tags when I get new music, so it can't be any other way. Once you have your script saved its 2 clicks away. Since they implemented album cover embedding, I now only need foobar for complete maintenance and playback, it's great.

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