How best to fix multiple folders for the same artist

[jocar37]

I'm in the process of (finally) ripping my CDs to FLAC with dBpoweramp. But when I opened up the directory in Explorer, I saw that there several artist's albums are being distributed to different folders. I want all of a leader's albums in one folder. For example, I have a Keith Jarrett folder and a Keith Jarrett Trio folder. If I simply change the title of one folder to match the other, will the files in the 2 folders merge (without complication)? Or perhaps I should just drag the files from one folder to the other and then just delete the empty folder? Or is there still another, perhaps better, way?
Thanks

[Spoon]

Changing the artist tags does not rename folders, you would have to do this also, or move files.

[simbun]

I'm in the process of (finally) ripping my CDs to FLAC with dBpoweramp. But when I opened up the directory in Explorer, I saw that there several artist's albums are being distributed to different folders. I want all of a leader's albums in one folder.

If you want to override the defaults, modify the "Album Artist" field at the top of the CD Ripper screen before you start the rip.

NOTE: I'm making the assumption that your naming scheme (located in the bottom left panel) uses "album artist".

Or perhaps I should just drag the files from one folder to the other and then just delete the empty folder?

This will group them together at a filesystem level, but they'll still have different "album artist" tags. To fix those you'll need to modify the tag values.

[jocar37]

Changing the artist tags does not rename folders, you would have to do this also, or move files.

Thanks. So I'm thinking that when I've ripped everything, I could just move all files of a lead artist to one file, and then delete the emptied folders. Is that correct? It would make dealing with this relatively easy.

[garym]

that will work for having all the artist albums in same folder. But may not work on certain servers/players that use tag info rather than folder or file names when displaying information about your files. In my case, I use ALBUM ARTIST for this purpose. For example, I use ALBUM ARTIST = Miles Davis, even when ARTIST is something like Miles Davis Quintet, etc. That way all my Miles Davis albums are under a single album artist folder. (my dynamic naming uses ALBUM ARTIST for folder name, even if ARTIST name is different). I use the following naming string to achieve this:

[MAXLENGTH]240,[IFCOMP]Compilations\[album][IFMULTI]\Disc [disc][]\[track] - [title] - [artist][][IF!COMP][IFVALUE]album artist,[album artist],[artist][]\[album][IFMULTI]\Disc [disc][]\[track] - [title][][]

[jocar37]

Good to know, garym. Thanks