Amarok/Manual/Organization/Collection/OrganizeCollection

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Organize Collection

While organizing your collection in Amarok is a straight-forward task, you will be manipulating the actual files on your hard drive. Please be sure you have a backup of your files before you begin.

With the Organize Files dialog of Amarok you can easily manage the media files on your hard drive. When you change the naming scheme of media files, you will organize them, which is very powerful. To access the Organize Files dialog, right-click Local Collection -> Organize Files in the Media Sources pane and the menu interface will pop-up.

Warning

Using this option will move the files to a new location, so you not only need appropriate rights for both the origin and the destination location, but also enough space, usually the double of the total file size to have the action perform smoothly. If you are unsure, do NOT use this option.

If the option Organize Files does not appear, you may have Merged View on (toggled by ). In order to safely organize your files, you need to see your collections separated, not merged.

Organizing Files Interface

After selecting the option Organize Files you will first see an additional option that allows you to move the files to a new location, as well as transcode them at the same time. Depending on the codecs you have installed on the system, some format options might not be available and will be grayed out:

For more information about Transcoding, please see the Transcoding section.

After clicking on the Move button on top of the screen, the following interface will show:

Interface Item	Description
Collection Folder	The default collection folder. Set multiple folders in Settings -> Configure Amarok.
Token Bar	Drag and drop multiple tokens here to change the naming scheme of your media files. Only available in Basic view.
Format Presets	When you have created your naming scheme, save it as a preset by clicking Save Preset. Remove presets by clicking Remove Preset.
Replace Spaces With Underscores	If checked, converts spaces in filenames to underscores.
Ignore 'The' in Artist names	If checked, artists' names starting with 'The' will instead be styled ', The'.
VFAT Safe Names	If checked, replaces characters that are incompatible with MS-DOS or VFAT file systems with underscores. Most people can leave this option enabled.
Restrict to ASCII	If checked, all non-ASCII characters will be replaced with underscores. Do not check this option if you have non-English characters in your tags. Most people can leave this option unchecked.
Custom Character Replacement	Replace the tag expressions you write under the Replace box with character strings you write in the With box. Useful if there are mis-spellings in CDDB.
Destination Preview	Shows the original naming scheme of your media files and how they will look after the changes are applied (not available since ver. 2.4.2).
Overwrite Destination	If checked, overwrites files of the same name without asking for further confirmation (not available since ver. 2.4.2).

Advanced Contents

The code version of the Token Bar, which allows you to code the name format of media files. Activate it by pressing Advanced... in the interface menu. To change back click Basic....

Enclose conditional inclusion arguments such as CD number in braces, like this:

%artist%/%album%{/Disc %discnumber%}/%track% %title%

Note: formerly, the coding was %token, as of 2.4 it is %token%.