Audio folder naming.....conventions??

[Tonewheelkev]

Successfully using MoOde with a RPi4....great!
I have a lot of Audio files....in distinct folders (arranged per album)
Is there a naming convention for correct labelling of those folders, that assists in the functioning of the library that MoOde uses?
Also.....some cue files present.....some folders don't have 'em....what's recommended here?

I've used 'The Renamer' for video folders.....perhaps there's an equivalent to sort audio folders???

[Nutul]

Successfully using MoOde with a RPi4....great!
I have a lot of Audio files....in distinct folders (arranged per album)
Is there a naming convention for correct labelling of those folders, that assists in the functioning of the library that MoOde uses?
Also.....some cue files present.....some folders don't have 'em....what's recommended here?

I've used 'The Renamer' for video folders.....perhaps there's an equivalent to sort audio folders???

Folder names have no impact on how moOde organises its library; the tags in the files do, OTOH. I just recommend to not use characters (for folders, but also for file names...) outside the lower ASCII set, that is: no accented letters, no punctuation, no slash or backslash etc. as those could possibly be a) misinterpreted by MPD, and/or b) cause path problems on different OSs.

I, for instance, have mine the following way:

USB-SSD/Music/<folders from A to Z>/<one folder per artist>/<one folder per album>/<album flac+cue>, but you might have, as the least, <album track files>
If the tracks are properly tagged, e.g. Artit, Album, Year, Genre- etc. they will be organized by moOde in the GENRE, TAG and ALBUM views.
The FOLDER view, OTOH, will be just the directory tree described above.

Cheers, Al.

[Tonewheelkev]

Successfully using MoOde with a RPi4....great!
I have a lot of Audio files....in distinct folders (arranged per album)
Is there a naming convention for correct labelling of those folders, that assists in the functioning of the library that MoOde uses?
Also.....some cue files present.....some folders don't have 'em....what's recommended here?

I've used 'The Renamer' for video folders.....perhaps there's an equivalent to sort audio folders???

Folder names have no impact on how moOde organises its library; the tags in the files do, OTOH. I just recommend to not use characters (for folders, but also for file names...) outside the lower ASCII set, that is: no accented letters, no punctuation, no slash or backslash etc. as those could possibly be a) misinterpreted by MPD, and/or b) cause path problems on different OSs.

I, for instance, have mine the following way:

USB-SSD/Music/<folders from A to Z>/<one folder per artist>/<one folder per album>/<album flac+cue>, but you might have, as the least, <album track files>
If the tracks are properly tagged, e.g. Artit, Album, Year, Genre- etc. they will be organized by moOde in the GENRE, TAG and ALBUM views.
The FOLDER view, OTOH, will be just the directory tree described above.

Cheers, Al.

Thanks Al...!
Looks like I've got a lot of work to do....with well over 1000 folders....

[Nutul]

Successfully using MoOde with a RPi4....great!
I have a lot of Audio files....in distinct folders (arranged per album)
Is there a naming convention for correct labelling of those folders, that assists in the functioning of the library that MoOde uses?
Also.....some cue files present.....some folders don't have 'em....what's recommended here?

I've used 'The Renamer' for video folders.....perhaps there's an equivalent to sort audio folders???

Folder names have no impact on how moOde organises its library; the tags in the files do, OTOH. I just recommend to not use characters (for folders, but also for file names...) outside the lower ASCII set, that is: no accented letters, no punctuation, no slash or backslash etc. as those could possibly be a) misinterpreted by MPD, and/or b) cause path problems on different OSs.

I, for instance, have mine the following way:

USB-SSD/Music/<folders from A to Z>/<one folder per artist>/<one folder per album>/<album flac+cue>, but you might have, as the least, <album track files>
If the tracks are properly tagged, e.g. Artit, Album, Year, Genre- etc. they will be organized by moOde in the GENRE, TAG and ALBUM views.
The FOLDER view, OTOH, will be just the directory tree described above.

Cheers, Al.

Thanks Al...!
Looks like I've got a lot of work to do....with well over 1000 folders....

You lucky man, I have in total only about 950...

Cheers, Al.

[Tim Curtis]

Successfully using MoOde with a RPi4....great!
I have a lot of Audio files....in distinct folders (arranged per album)
Is there a naming convention for correct labelling of those folders, that assists in the functioning of the library that MoOde uses?
Also.....some cue files present.....some folders don't have 'em....what's recommended here?

I've used 'The Renamer' for video folders.....perhaps there's an equivalent to sort audio folders???

A pretty standard dir structure is Artist/Album/Track

You can also use that for CUE format where Track is the one audio file + a .cue file that defines the tracks.