I made a major mistake yesterday in trying to bring some semblance of order to my media files. There is an annual song competition held in Sanremo, Italy, and I have assembled a collection of songs that is pretty comprehensive in the years I focussed on. The song files were placed in folders by performer. There is often other song files by that performer in that folder. In my music library I gave each song an album tag called "Sanremo YYYY", the YYYY being the year the song was in the festival, which is the most logical was to organize them, but there were never any folders created with those names.
Yesterdau I thought I had found a Windows folder option to effiiciently edit song titles and file names, which in downloaded or burned music files will often have other tags, ike performer or track number, appended to them I didn't take account of certain things that caused me to do some major damage to my music folder structure. A folder named "Sanremo YYYY" was created in every performer folder containing a song from that's yea'rs festival, and the song file was moved to it. So many performer folders have several such folders depending on how many times the performer was in the festival. I don't like it, but the only way I see to change it back is to go to each Sanremo YYYY folder, move one file from each to their respective performer folder , and trash the Sanremo YYYY f folders.
Is there any process that would organize files into folders based on a tag attached to that file? E.G. a file with a performer tag would go to a folder named for that performer. Or any other suggestions that do not involve moving close to 1000 files one at a time?
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