re: Use PowerShell to Easily Organize Your Music Collection

IamMred — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 17:31:24 GMT

@GavinB You are correct; I wanted to remove the filesystem organization to my music files. Keep in mind, this is a special purpose application. In fact, this is a copy of my actual music collection. I would not do this to the orginal music files that I sync with my Zune. I simply wanted to be able to not have to search through hundreds of folders to pick out a few songs to play. As to your question about how am I going to find the Black album from Metallica? This is simple. I first customize my folder in Windows Explorer to be Music. This adds artist, album, etc. columns to my view. I can choose to display additional meta data if I wish. I can then click the column heading, and Voila, I have a sort by albumn. I have a number of articles about working with music files meta data, and one specifically that talks about ID3 tags (it is written in VBScript, but would be easy to translate) here is that link http://bit.ly/vh7aRb Here are the PowerShell and multimedia articles http://bit.ly/tT5OK6 I hope this helps. Thank you for keeping me honest. Keep in mind, this technique of flattening a directory structure is applicable for many different purposes. The cool thing is I did not have to write a script to do this.

re: Use PowerShell to Easily Organize Your Music Collection

GavinB — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 08:58:21 GMT

Congratulations, you just removed any organisation at a file system level that you did have.

Seriously now how are going to play the Black album from Metallica bit nothing else after you do this?

I was hoping this might be a useful post about duplicate detection or reading ID3 tags.

Well below your usually excellent and useful post quality.