Sort FLAC & ALAC into seperate directories

[garym]

Re: Sort FLAC & ALAC into seperate directories

I have just ripped my collection creating a FLAC copy and an Apple Lossless copy of each.
I didn't really understand the path settings and I set the same for each codec.
I have a nice directory structure - i.e. music/artist/album with a FLAC & an ALAC copy of each track.
When my bluesound catalogues this, it registers both the FLAC and ALAC copies.

Is there a way to get the bluesound to ignore one of the codec types? (I appreciate this is not a bluesound forum)
Should I have set up a different directory structure? i.e. music/FLAC/artist/album + music/ALAC/artist/album
If I have my directories wrong, is there an easy way to separate the FLAC & ALAC copies into their own directory structures?

I have windows 7 pro for what it's worth.

Many thanks in anticipation

Yes, should have setup the separate directory structures for FLAC and ALAC. To fx, try this (experiment on an album or two first before doing it all in one big batch)

1. in Windows Explorer, select all the music files (i.e., everything in MUSIC parent directory)
2. Sort by file type (so that all ALAC files are listed first in the list)
3. Then select only the ALAC extension file (you can select first and last, with shift key down to get them all)
4. Right click, select "DBPoweramp Batch Convert"
5. Upper left, click CONVERT button
6. Select [ARRANGE AUDIO] as your CODEC DSP. (might need to install ARRANGE AUDIO from Codec Central if not installed already
7. Make the "root path": MUSIC\ALAC
8. Arrangement should be: [artist]\[album]\[track] - [title]
7. choose what to do with the arrange album art, depending on what you've done with album art (embedded, folder.jpg, cover.jpg, etc.)
8. Bottom right, select CONVERT

This should create a directory of all your ALAC files under MUSIC\ALAC arranged by artist/album.

When this is tested, then applied to all your files, you should be left with the ALAC files in MUSIC\ALAC arranged by artist/album. The the FLAC files are left alone in the original structure. For those, just create a FLAC directory under MUSIC, so that you have MUSIC\FLAC. Then select all those artist subdirectories under MUSIC (which now contains only FLAC files), "cut" then paste underneath MUSIC\FLAC.

At this point you should have two identical directories:

music\alac\artist\album....
music\flac\artist\album....

[mville]

Re: Sort FLAC & ALAC into seperate directories

Why do you have a flac and alac version of each file?

[sean-p]

I have just ripped my collection creating a FLAC copy and an Apple Lossless copy of each.
I didn't really understand the path settings and I set the same for each codec.
I have a nice directory structure - i.e. music/artist/album with a FLAC & an ALAC copy of each track.
When my bluesound catalogues this, it registers both the FLAC and ALAC copies.

Is there a way to get the bluesound to ignore one of the codec types? (I appreciate this is not a bluesound forum)
Should I have set up a different directory structure? i.e. music/FLAC/artist/album + music/ALAC/artist/album
If I have my directories wrong, is there an easy way to separate the FLAC & ALAC copies into their own directory structures?

I have windows 7 pro for what it's worth.

Many thanks in anticipation