Keeping Folders Organized

[Dr.Rhythm]

Can kJams keep the music folders organized like iTunes can? For example, let's say I have some tracks by "N Sync" and some by "N'Sync". If I rename the tracks so they are all by the artist "N'Sync" can kJams move all the files in the former "N Sync" folder into the "N'Sync" folder.

I know that's a lot of N'Sync to digest.

[dave]

soooon, verrrrry sooooon..

patience, grasshopper.

[Dr.Rhythm]

That's good news. I'll just leave my files and folders alone for now. I'll try to make sure I rip the songs with the correct naming conventions so everything will end up in the right place.

[Dr.Rhythm]

A follow up. If I DO change the artist name in kJams, I noticed the file gets renamed. What's up with this behavior?

After ripping a track the title of the file was...

02 Bye Bye Bye.zip

After I changed the artist name the file was renamed...

BS6117-02 - N'Sync - Bye Bye Bye.zip

Why did that happen?

[dave]

preferences->tags->writing->conform song names:

it's best to leave it at the default.
before the advent of meta data (10.3) i tried to glean the meta data out of the name of the file. this seemed to be a standard format for zipped song names.

you're not supposed to worry about the title of the file. let kJams do it's job, in the future it will be much better.

[Dr.Rhythm]

What is the default Dave? I didn't change anything. It's set to "L-T - R - S" right now. I guess that's Album-Track# - Artist - Title. I really don't need my file names to be that complex or that long because like you said, I'll just let kJams manage them.

When I rip the tracks it looks like the setting must be "T S".

[dave]

the default is: what it goes to if you don't change anything.

just don't look at it, let kJams do whatever it does.

and never, ever change a song's name or folder in the finder, after kJams has added it to the library. do all your data manipulation whithin kJams.