Arrange items in a folder by artist or album?!?!

[thpharms]

I see in MATE nadia you can arrange items in a folder by name date etc.. but I want to arrange them by artist to make it easier to fix my music collection what do I do?

[viking777]

Media players do this automatically, why do you want to use a file manager?

[mfluder]

Try 'ex falso' for modifying music metadata. You can find it in the software repository.

Or you can try VLC in playlist mode. That allows you to arrange music the way you want.

[thpharms]

I want to compile my music collection so if I share music files I know what I or the other person has so I don't get a bunch of duplicates, last time I got music I had 8000 songs but 1500 of them were duplicates. Also my media files are pretty messed up most of the tags are things like "102track7" and I'm super OCD so I want to fix them. Ie, if I can group them together by artist I can change there file names to what the name of the song is as an album rather then going through each and every song and doing it that way. I'll try what you were saying mfludder thanks.

[Orbmiser]

Yep use a program that is designed to help fix and organize those kind of things.
Have used Banshee and now Clementine as running KDE. But allows me to fix the metadata and organize my collection.
Which has grown to 1000+ CD's and 30,000+ tracks last 20 years of adding to it.

Banshee - Gnome

Amarok - KDE
Clementine - KDe

Sure others will chime in with there favorites.
But trying to correct the problem by file manager means is problematic at best.
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[gibbs1984]

I use EasyTag, works well.