music file management in xbmc

[koushikp]

recently i set up my i7+6770M HP laptop as a HTPC with plex and foobar, later finding plex to be too heavy and loving the smartphone remote of the xbmc, uninstalled plex and shifted to XBMC (Eden 11.0). Since XBMC was new to me, it took me a some time to go through internal settings and see that even XBMC can output audio using Wasabi and also opening doors for using openelec rather than windows 7 as I am using now.

But I have run into a problem. All my music files are CDs converted to FLAC, all files residing in the same folder. While Foobar was picking all the albums separately and perfectly, XBMC is picking up all individual file and I am getting a huge list of songs rather than a proper album wise categorization.

whats the way to properly organize the files so that xbmc picks them up properly?

 

[musicbee]

whats the way to properly organize the files so that xbmc picks them up properly?

Ideally each album should be in its own folder. At least that's the way I've sorted my entire flac and movie collections and XMBC (and also Foobar) correctly display them as artist - album listing.

 

[koushikp]

Ideally each album should be in its own folder. At least that's the way I've sorted my entire flac and movie collections and XMBC (and also Foobar) correctly display them as artist - album listing.

any software which would help me do this easily rather than the tedious job of me putting them in separate folders manually? :sad:

 

[musicbee]

Mp3tag - the universal Tag Editor (ID3v2, MP4, OGG, FLAC, ...) does this. Also, other taggers should do it.

I personally have never played with it. I'm meticulous in ripping my CDs, tagging them, and then sorting and storing them with 2 backups.

Also, (I think) MediaMonkey and possibly MusicBee might be able to do this i.e. organize and move into folders.

But you will need to play with them and see how easy or feasible they are. I've never needed any of these functions myself.

 

[anm]

or can we setup xbmc to parse file names by using correct regular expressions?
I was trying to use xmbc to read files from an external disk on my appletv gen 1. It was able to browse and play the files alright, but when I did scan to library, it didn't really do anything.
Here is some of the log

02:58:52 T:61148672 DEBUG: Process - Starting scan
02:58:52 T:60040704 DEBUG: Thread CThread start, auto delete: 0
02:58:52 T:61148672 DEBUG: DoScan Scanning dir '/Volumes/PENDRIVE8GB/my-music/' as not in the database
02:58:52 T:60040704 DEBUG: Thread CThread 60040704 terminating
02:58:52 T:61148672 DEBUG: DoScan Scanning dir '/Volumes/PENDRIVE8GB/my-music/Best of Ghulam Ali/' as not in the database
02:58:52 T:61148672 DEBUG: CFileCache::Open - opening </Volumes/PENDRIVE8GB/my-music/Best of Ghulam Ali/Ghulam Ali - Best Of Ghulam Ali - 01 - Chupke Chupke Raat Din.wav> using cache
02:58:52 T:61387264 DEBUG: Thread XFILE::CFileCache start, auto delete: 0
02:58:53 T:61148672 INFO: WAVCodec::Init - Sample Rate: 44100, Bits Per Sample: 16, Channels: 2
02:58:53 T:61148672 INFO: WAVCodec::Init - WAVE_FORMAT_PCM detected
02:58:53 T:61387264 DEBUG: Process, request seek on source to 82891580
02:58:53 T:61387264 INFO: CFileCache:rocess - Hit eof.
02:58:53 T:61387264 DEBUG: Process, request seek on source to 44
02:58:53 T:61387264 DEBUG: Thread XFILE::CFileCache 61387264 terminating

 

[baijuxavior]

koushik, xbmc can show your music collection in album, genre, artist, songs or year wise. For this enable library view and there is no need to rearrange the songs. By default xbmc uses file view and since all your songs are in the same folder, you see the entire song collection. If you really want to auto organize the songs then both mediamonkey and musicbee has options for that. You can enter the criteria by which to move the files to new folder.

 

[anm]

can anyone figure out what the log is saying?