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

[Xonetacular]

I ended up just using trainspotter to relocate files and it did it all automatically and updated traktor's paths

[WTFumbles]

nice! I'll look into that because I'm about to tackle the same issue with my setup...

[Steve E Wunda]

Is mediamonkey PC only?

Try this program to run MediaMonkey on Mac OS X

http://winebottler.kronenberg.org/

[onebuckwild]

Got Media Monkey, came up with a plan for mine, Changed all the genre to what they should be, Then used album to identify my play list. So all songs in a play list now have the same album name to match the playlist folder I had them. 93GB I worked on for 6hrs. got it all nice and clean in Media monkey. then did an auto orginize by Artist/track name. That ran over night. wake up and go look at the main music folder. I see NO CHANGES. I open VDJ and no changes, I open tracktor no changes. All the genre and changes I made show no were except when Im in Media Monkey. So hope I missed something or Im kinda thinking what was the point. then add into this that I am at work open a bounch of tracks in windows 7 in a regular window. selected to add album as one of the headers. all songs from differnt. I selected all, hit properties. changed them all to one album and applied it to all of them. Pretty much same thing I did in media monkey, but it happen faster and it shows in the actual folder. So seam to work better. So what am I missing?

[Patch]

I didn't get a word of that, mate...

Trainspotter looks interesting...

[onebuckwild]

Everything I did in media monkey only shows in media monkey. None of the changes show in the original file. There for when you open your dj programe nothing has changed.

[Patch]

I've never used Media monkey for tags - never even thought to. I only use MP3Tag for my tagging needs. Put all my tracks through Mixed in key (writes key and BPM to filename), then bring all tracks into MP£Tag and chose "Create Tags from filename".

Then I group tracks, and can add genre, etc... in batches.

[Patch]

That brings up another question for me, is there any way to rename files in some unified system based on their tags?

Because I updated all my tags pretty much perfectly, now my file names are still all over the place. Never thought about putting it all in one folder but that seems like it could get a little crazy.

I use MP3TAg for this - does it PERFECTLY. Just point MP3Tag to the folder containing the tracks, and then select "Create Filename from Tags". You can specify the order of the filename from the tags, for example:

%Key% - %BPM% - %Artist% - %Title%

Where the words between teh %'s are the Tags, and each tag is separated by " - ". My filenames look like:

04A - 094 - RJD2 - Ghostwriter
07B - 104 - Showbiz & A.G. - Soul Clap
06B - 103 - Souls of Mischief - '93 Til Infinity
07A - 136 - The Anomalies - Bamboo Beats

Patches Pro Tip: Using 3 digits for the Key & BPM makes 'em line up nicely in browsers...