Finished library purging, now what's the best way to organize my files on my HDD?

[Xonetacular]

Is mediamonkey PC only?

[Steve Zorilow]

YES and it's a good thing hahahaha, I know they said they're working on a cross-platform version some day.

[rdej47]

Someone should do an article for the blog about purging the library and making sure your bases are covered.

1) Deleting old/crappy versions of tracks, upgrading with high quality versions
2) Updating the Traktor collection to kill any old files
3) Adding high quality tracks to Traktor collection and making sure cue points and grids are still good.

[Xonetacular]

Bumping an old thread. I still need to fix my music file structure. I have my trimmed down library tagged properly in traktor about 2500 songs. Only problem is everything is in a huge mess of nested folders and files all over the place.

I want a program or something to organize all my music and just dumb everything into genre folders. Just like 10 folders then all the raw tracks in there. Is there anything for mac to do this? Itunes is awful for this and puts everything in a clusterfuck of 1000 nested folders which slows down traktor loading and consistency checks.

[EssBee]

Sad face I can't help this thread....I know it doesn't help, but I'll say it anyway......best success I've had is going by downloaded song month, and then BPM. Best of the best rises to the top. Not what you're talking about though; I wish software like that would come out.

Bumping an old thread. I still need to fix my music file structure. I have my trimmed down library tagged properly in traktor about 2500 songs. Only problem is everything is in a huge mess of nested folders and files all over the place.

I want a program or something to organize all my music and just dumb everything into genre folders. Just like 10 folders then all the raw tracks in there. Is there anything for mac to do this? Itunes is awful for this and puts everything in a clusterfuck of 1000 nested folders which slows down traktor loading and consistency checks.

[lethal_pizzle]

Don't bother updating your file structure. Music software tends to build it's own tag based database, so its just a waste of time

[quartzlocked]

We need some software guru to build windows media player 10 into a stable player/ripper from this platform, add high quality burning capabilities,add works well with DJ software of your choice. It already has the feature to right click on the track and there are 12 tag editors right there title, genre, subtitle, mood, track #, bpm, key, album, original album, set, music category description, and language. On top of that when online you can force look-up and add the information, even if it is incorrect. Then add to Apple' super fast search. WAH LA there it is I'm a Trillionaire.

[Steve Zorilow]

Get a PC... get Mediamonkey. End of the story

[WTFumbles]

Hi Xonetacular, I may be a little late on this thread, and for that I'm sorry. New here, haven't familiarized myself with people yet. I'm a veteran computer tech (PC only, sorry). However, I'm a HUGE fan of interesting workarounds, and I believe I have a solution that will work on your Mac (I assume that's what you're using, because of the dismay of your "Is Mediamonkey PC only?" message)

This is a more complex setup, but once implemented should cure your illness, and you don't have to purchase anything new.

Part of being a computer tech for all my friends and family, and their friends means I have access to an indescribable amount of music stored on harddrives. Because of the .. sampling.. I've been doing from various friends, I'm also a HUGE fan of Mediamonkey (so much so that I bought the Gold edition - when you get to 100,000 tracks, you will be, too).

The issue you're having is that the solution offered (Mediamonkey) isn't Mac compatible. So, just like having to use a middle-man software to interpret HID-keystrokes into MIDI controls, we, in theory, can do a half-step to accomplish your media organization using Mediamonkey.

"How?"

Install a virtual machine on your Mac that runs a Windows-based operating system (like XP), install Mediamonkey into the Windows VM, share your music library with full read/write control to the Windows VM, and point Mediamonkey to the network share as if it were the library it was managing "locally" (native to the VM).

Mediamonkey should then sort the files automatically over the "network", thereby re-organizing the files on your Mac, from your Mac, through a hierarchy of programs, with no additional hardware needed.

Free virtual machine platform:
https://www.virtualbox.org/

I can get you a legitimate Windows XP Home CoA so you can install Windows (if you're in the states, I can mail you the CoA, as well). If you need a software disc for Windows, I can get you one as well.

While I'm not a pro at network sharing on Mac's, I can help with the Windows side, and if you really feel lost, I offer remote support (at no charge for this special occasion - i.e. I want to see if my theory works).

Total time to set this up should take maybe two to three hours. That's including roughly an hour to download, install and configure Virtual Box, and the estimated autonomous hour it takes to install Windows XP. That leaves an hour to download and install Mediamonkey, share the network drives, set your settings, and test it out.

Prior to this, I highly recommend backing up your entire music library to an external drive, or a completely new directory outside of your normal music library, as having Mediamonkey reorganize your files can have undesirable effects (such as tracks "missing" from your DJ software). If after the process is complete, you find that it's done too much collateral damage in your DJ software, we can then restore your library to its original state and approach from a different angle.

Let me know if you'd like to give this a shot. - Mark

[Bassline Brine]

I let iTunes do it. I tried to nitpick everything without it, and finally just got fed up with it. Doesn't seem to be much of an issue with Serato, I couldn't tell you for Traktor though. And it's REALLY easy to find files now lol.