I have a big collection with wrong directory structure

[BadMouth]

I've been using The PC Jukebox for the past few years, but it seemed like it slowed down to a crawl when I added the last batch of albums.  So I'm giving other software a try.

I installed the trial of E-Touch V5.

When I go to build a database, it is not picking up any of my mp3s in my main music folder.
They are all in one folder with no subfolders and my file naming convention is <artist> - <album> - <title>

I notice that if I searched my Amazon MP3 or Emusic folders, E-Touch would picks up the mp3's just fine.

Is there an easy way to get an E-Touch database built without making a separate folder for every artist and album?

Or is there an automated way to convert to that structure using the tags?

Thanks

[Sparky23]

I believe the only way it will work for you is to have seperate folders for each artist and cd they have. I don't think it will work any other way. I always done it that way without any problems.

[draginit]

this thread might answer your question: http://www.freeboxjukebox.com/Forum/index.php?topic=1404.msg12451#msg12451

[BadMouth]

Not the answers I was hoping to hear.   
I've already invested so much time in ripping CDs, gathering album art, & keeping the file names uniform, I really don't want to spend the time to create folders & subfolders (nor do I want my collection stored in that format).
It's a shame, because the software looks like exactly what I want.

I was hoping maybe this has come up before and someone created and automated solution.

Thanks for replying though. 

[Barcrest]

You can use something like media monkey to re organise the files into folder but you said you didn't want to store your music like that. To be honest I don't see why you wouldn't as it is far easier to find things when they are sorted as opposed to one huge list of tracks.

[BadMouth]

You can use something like media monkey to re organise the files into folder but you said you didn't want to store your music like that. To be honest I don't see why you wouldn't as it is far easier to find things when they are sorted as opposed to one huge list of tracks.

If it's automated, I don't mind converting it for the jukebox.

I'm a big fan of MediaMonkey.  I didn't even think about seeing if it could change the folder structure for an already ripped collection.  I'll see if I can figure it out and give it a go when I get home from work.

Thanks!

[BadMouth]

Media Monkey reorganized everything with minimal hassle. 

The next PITA was the album art.  I had it embedded in the MP3 tags, so E-Touch wasn't seeing it.

I used The PC Jukebox to extract the album art from the tags, but had it name it after the album.
The album art still isn't showing up in E-Touch.  Does it have to be named "cover" ? 

[ecbrad]

Yes it does BUT if you only have the one cover then the config tool can create a copy automatically and generate the thumbnail

Brad