Amarok/Manual/Organization/Collection/OrganizeCollection

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Organize Collection

Overview

Organizing your collection in Amarok is a straight forward task, you can easily manage the media files on your hard drive.This function allows you to change the name format of media files thus organizing them after many criteria. To acces the Organize Files function , right-click Local Collection - Organize Files in the Media Sources panel and the menu interface will pop-up.

Organizing Files

Can be done using the following interface :

Interface

Contents

Interface Item Description
Collection Folder Is the default collection folder. You can set multiple folders in Settings - Configure Amarok .
The Tokens Bar You can drag/drop multiple tokens to configure the name format of your media files. This is only available in basic view .
Format Presets When you find the desirable name format, you can save it as a preset by clicking Save Preset or you can remove it by clicking Remove Preset .
Replace Spaces With Underscores If checked, converts spaces to underscores.
Ignore 'The' in artist names If checked, postfix artist' names starting with 'The' with ',The' .
VFAT Safe Names If checked, replaces characters that are incompatible with MS-DOS/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 Replecement Replace the tag expresions you write under the Replace box with character strings you write in the With box.
Destination Preview Shows the original name format 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.

Advanced Contents

Basically this is the code version of The Tokens Bar, allows you to code the name format of media files. You can activate it by pressing Advanced... in the interface menu. To change back click Basic...