How to Organize a Massive Music Library Effortlessly

Part 1 showed us how to tag our mp3s and rename them with artist and title. In this video we learn how to sort our entire music library into folders by artist, album year, and album name.

The best part is that its free!

Name Files Like This: %artist%/%date%/%album%/%artist% - %title%
Advanced Scripting Tagger Script: $set(date,$left(%date%,4))

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Questions?

BACK UP YOUR LIBRARY BEFORE STARTING!

[jimkerr]

I had a bit of a challenge with this due to moving thousands of files from my mac, iphone and other computer to PC but at the end of the day, this did everything as promised. Thank you for your hard work and clear direction. You are a music savior!

[moisesespinosa]

Not sure if you are still around but this method works as of Dec 3 2024 and helped organize my files without a problem!! Did this on windows 10 using Picard and followed each step, worked 100% Thanks and happy holidays

[halukyigit]

hears a song on the radio, likes it and thinks: wow pretty good..then torrents whole flac discography...

I know you are there :))

[baronbruce]

Love the fact, it took LESS THAN 5 MINUTES to clearly explain the procedure (NO year loOoong intro w/music, No snarky shoutouts, just cut to the chase) !!! Content Creators PLEASE take note... (4) Decades of TOP100 Hits organized !

[NoellaCresence]

Supremely helpful. 10 years worth of music is on it's way to being sorted. :)

[Jogwheel]

It's cute that your entire music collection is only a few hundred songs :)

[mondsjahmauny]

i just want to say thank you i know this video was mad more than a year ago but its still works perfectly

[artstidd]

Thank you,  I had about 5% of my music it could not find the art for but everything else worked great. Thanks for putting in the time to make this video.

[britneywipf]

I love you thank you so much! I had renamed all mine at one point, and it all deleted so I am glad I found you. I don't want to go thro all 2000 of my songs again.

[waynetsang]

This is awesome... Thanks for clearing things up, however, I am still experiencing two issues.

1. When I sort through my music, songs featuring other artists are saved under a different distinct artist.  How do I get rid of featuring artists within the artist name and place the featuring artist within the song title instead?

2. To get rid of another layer of folders and combining information, can I sort the folders such that it breaks down from  Essentially I want to get rid of the year level and place the year in brackets beside the album.

Right now with the way the tutorial has been set up, I end up with many artists and the albums are broken down and split between multiple folders to other artists when it is featuring another artist etc...

If I buy a Paul McCartney album everything should be under his name as he is the main artist, then the album with the release year followed by the songs and if the songs are featuring other artists, place that information within the song title.  Your help is much appreciated.  Thank you.

[MichaelJE]

the "/" symbol is a foreward slash. A backslash looks like "\" that.

[outwardjourney]

It's a good start... I do thank you for the videos! Just wanted to let others know that for ME, it works about 50% of the time. I'm also running into a problem where if a folder has been "tagged" it won't find them again when they're scanned again. When you're scanning about 19, 000 files, it has a tendency to lock up every once in a while, or during a large save process. Another issue I have is that well known artists and songs aren't being tagged when they're scanned. More than 1/3 (Closer to 1/2) of the scanned mp3 files I have came back as unmatched. It's working so far for a few others with minor problems.

[lowhelium]

thanks! while watching this vid musicBrainz did more than what i accomplished in 4 hours

[pedropinto]

Hi! Can I do it directly from the external hard drive? I just create a new folder (music sort) inside the hard drive, but at 2:47 when u said to change the date... in advance/scripting/tagger script... but no code appeared ... can you help me with it, please
?

[JoAnn-prze]

What if you're starting from scratch and have to move your CD collection to digital? How do I do that first?

[christophersaundersoshea]

After I processed as taught saving does not do anything. Why ? Please and thank you

[AllenRivota]

Very impressive process and exactly what I need to do with my music files. One problem, I need the windows version. Can you or anyone for that matter point me in the right direction? This seems to me this would be one of the most common tutorials needed by anyone that listens to music on any digital device. I have a very large music library and many different types of music files besides .MP3. I have just purchased a new smartphone (Galaxy s5) and would like to FINALLY organized my entire music library. I look forward to any assistance ANYONE can offer. Thank you!

[klausreblaus]

Go to Options - Options - Plugins, then download, install and activate the "Move Feat. Artists to Titles" plugin. (Might require a restart.) If you also want to remove them from the titles, get "Remove Feat. Artists from Titles".

[stevespoon]

Song Director is by far the best Music Organizer that I have used. Song Director is great software to organize and play your music collection. It can tag and sort your songs while you browse through and find different songs to play. You can download it for free

[SimonHartman]

Hmmm, a few issues with this.
'Scan' really should only be used once 'Cluster' + 'Lookup' hasn't found the matching song/album for you. It's quicker and wont sort as much into annoying Various Artist releases. If that hasn't worked (usually because there's no pre-existing tags in the files, or the tags are wrong), then scan everything.
Also [artist] > [(year) album] makes far more sense to me in terms of folder structure than [artist] > [year] > [album]? But whatever..