Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Auto-catagorize a directory tree

[Bastiaan Van Eeckhoudt <bastiaanve gmail com>]

On Wed, 23 Jun 2004 14:13:32 -0400, John Kodis <john kodis org> wrote:
> 
> I have a number of albums ripped into a directory tree with what seems
> to be a fairly standard organization:
> 
>     ~/music/<artist-name>/<album-name>/01-<track-1> ... nn-<track-n>
> 
> ...and so on.  It seems like there should be an easy way to
> automatically record the artist and album names when importing these
> files, but I don't see any such facility.

You can use easytag to automatically add id3 tags to all your files
based on the directory structure and filenames.
Once you have the id3 tags, rhythmbox will import the correct metadata.

Bastiaan

> 
> Am I overlooking something obvious, or should I start writing a simple
> tree-walker/xml-writer type of script to take care of this?
> 
> -- John Kodis.
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