Amarok/Manual/Organization/Collection/OrganizeCollection

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Organize Collection Overview

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.

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

Organizing Files Interface

Organize using the following interface:

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.
Overwrite Destination	If checked, overwrites files of the same name without asking for further confirmation.

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%.