Preserving folder layout, not same as I'm seeing in forums

[garym]

Re: Preserving folder layout, not same as I'm seeing in forums

I do this with some combination of preserve path and trim folder commands. See

https://forum.dbpoweramp.com/showthread.php?20469-Trimfolder&highlight=%5Btrimfolder%5D

[mville]

Re: Preserving folder layout, not same as I'm seeing in forums

This has been discussed many times on this forum.

First of all you have to be sure that, for all your albums, as well as Artist tag being populated, that Album Artist tag is populated e.g. Various Artists, 10,000 Maniacs etc. and that the Compilation tag is set to 1 if the album is a compilation. You can easily accomplish this, for many albums, using Batch Converter>ID Tag Update>Rule based Manipulation or MP3Tag software.

Then in the dynamic folder naming convention, experiment using Album Artist instead of Artist. On a soundtrack album, more often than not, there are multiple Artists, which is why you are seeing duplicate multiple albums.

[DMRube]

I've now spent hours searching, reading, and experimenting, and I'm close to giving up.

I need to know how to batch convert, to a folder of my choice, the EXACT folder layout of the folder I'm converting from. I want the folders of artists with multiple albums to be copied with the artist name, and then if there are multiple albums within that folder, they should then be copied inside that folder.

BUT, if the album is a soundtrack for example, Evita, the folder on my original source is Evita, then simply the album within that folder...simple. But when set in all the various versions I'm seeing in "dynamic", and several I have tried on my own, it is NOT working. It takes a soundtrack, for example, and duplicates as multiple albums if those separate tracks are from different artists.

Example: I have a folder of artist 10,000 Maniacs with three albums in it. I have a folder of "25 Classic Favorites" with one album, and that album consists of multiple artists on each track. My source folder/drive is two folders, one is "10,000 Maniacs" with three sub-folders for the three albums; the other is "25 Classic Favorites, with only ONE album. This should be an incredibly simple process...instead I get 18 new folders! The 10,000 Maniacs copies over intact and just fine, but the compilation album is now broken out into 17 new folders, NONE of which are named the original album.

This is frustrating, and by the way, I've tried every variation of the dynamic folder naming convention I could think of.

In the above example, I'm using "[artist]/[album]/[track] [title]" but I've tried multiple others.

Yes, I'm a registered owner, and I'm simply trying to convert a large folder of (mostly) FLAC to AIFF, and preserve the exact folder structure of the source folder. EXACT

Why is this so difficult, and why am I spending hours. By the way, the example of using the same name of album and artist in Madonna, and Madonna is of very little help in your example.

Anyway, I know this is a simple request, I see many others asking this same question. I don't see anyone that has asked why it doesn't work...please help.

Thank you in advance-

-David