Originally Posted by
Alastair
"BrodyBoy" thank you for your response, questions and feedback.
I apologize for the term 'flat file' I emigrated to the USA a long time ago and it is more commonly used there. You are correct in your accurate contextual guess.
I followed your suggestion but still the CDs I rip go across as individual files out with the pre-existing folder hierarchy. I confess I did not write down my previous manual setting. Does that mean I am condemned to folderless purgatory unless I re-rip all my CDs?
I have a Linn Akurate DS and QNAP server.
My current settings are:
Path:\\NAS\Multimedia\Linn Music\
Naming:[artist][album][album artist][title]etc etc
Thank you in advance.
Hi Alastair....no worries on the language thing. Your English is obviously excellent and you made yourself clear enough.
Read through garym's suggestions about dynamic naming. But note especially the difference between what he describes and what you wrote above, as that is the heart of the problem here. In your naming string, there are no backslashes to denote folder levels, as there are in Gary's examples. So your string results in the flat file problem. To generate a folder structure, you would need to change your naming string from:
[artist][album][album artist][title]etc etc
to
[artist]\[album]\[album artist][title]etc etc
Each backslash creates a new folder sub-level. I would further want to include the track number and some punctuation in the file name itself (i.e., [album artist] [track] - [title]....), but that's a personal preference and you can structure the filename however you like it. The key point....the solution to your folder structure problem...is that you need to insert a backslash everywhere you want to indicate a new sub-folder level.