[ctviggen]

Hi All,

Way back when (2006 or so) I started ripping my CDs to FLAC format, I didn't know what I was doing and selected whatever the options were for the program I was using at the time.  The program ripped everything into a single folder, without subfolders.  That is, when I look at my FLAC music folder, I have many (100s of?) songs in the folder.  At some point, I either switched programs and/or settings, and started ripping everything into properly named folders.  Thus, there is now a "Jack Johnson" folder, and under that folder are folders with CD/album names, and then under those are the songs that belong to albums. 

Is there a program that would go through the folder, determine what songs go with which albums, set up a folder for the album under the artist, and also perhaps set up a folder for the artist if not done already, and copy the songs into the correct folder? 

Or do I have to spend a weekend or so doing this?

Thank you for the help.

[dB Cooper]

Are the files in folders, one album per folder, now?

[Phil A]

What program(s) are you currently using to play (and tag) music?

[PSB Guy]

If this happened to me, I would just re-rip everything. Get a good program like dBPoweramp or Foobar and rip them properly.

Cornelis

[skunark]

You can try
https://picard.musicbrainz.org/
http://beets.io ( command line only )

With any of these programs do backup the files or be prepared to rerip.

[ctviggen]

Thank you for the replies.  The folder structure looks like the following.  The info between the { and } is what I added.

Music {main folder}
{Tons of individual songs <--These are what I want to organize}
ABBA {folder by artist's name; the rest of these are organized and I don't want to touch them}
     The Definitive Collection, Disc 1
          Songs for this album
     The Definitive Collection, Disc 2
          Songs for this album
Adele {folder by artist's name}
....

I'm currently using dB Power amp to rip the CDs, and have been using this for many years.  This also adds the (not always correct) metadata for the CDs, creates a folder by artist and then by CD name.  I was previously using another highly regarded program, whose name I do not remember. If I run into an issue, I use MP3 Tag to correct everything.

To re-rip these, I'd (a) have to find the CDs, which are in many, many folders in my basement, and (b) figure out which are not correct, and (c) re-rip those.  Out of 816 albums, maybe 1/5th or so are not in folders. It's hard to know because I can't count the number of songs, and of course there are multiple songs per CD. Also, some of the CDs are ruined, as I used them in my car and scratched them/broke them/lost them.  There are quite a few I could not replace. 

I'll try one of those programs and see what happens.

[Vincent Kars]

Media players often offer
-   Generate tags from file name,
-   Generate path/filename from tags; this is the option you need
-   Auto organize (Artist/Album/track most of the time); might be useful as well

If you’re media player doesn’t, try any piece of freeware like MusicBee, Foobar, etc
Don’t re-rip, that is a very time consuming way to destroy all the edits you have done up to now.