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Sort music by metadata

I thought this would be easier to find but I have tried a number of programs and none seem to be able to do this the way I want.

Basically I want to be able to sort a mass of .mp3s into a specific folder on an external drive, separated and named by metadata. I used foobar2000 on Windows to do this and it was perfect for my needs, the closest I've come on Ubuntu was Picard but, I can't get it to work with music not in the Musicbrainz DB, as I listen to a lot of mixtapes and live cuts so that isn't very helpful.

I want something with an output like "External HDD/artist/album/(tracknumber)title"
(for example :"External HDD/Nas/Illmatic/(01)The Genesis").

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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BlackWolf
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    Possibly related: [Reorder Files inside Folder](http://askubuntu.com/questions/47155/reorder-files-inside-folder) and [How to organize music files?](http://askubuntu.com/questions/85077/how-to-organize-music-files) – trent Sep 22 '12 at 22:40
  • http://askubuntu.com/questions/7225/sort-music-by-metadata – Ringtail Sep 23 '12 at 21:42

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I have written an application which does just you want. Check it out here. Foobar2000 was the application I was originally inspired by.

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  • Hey that does look very useful, honestly though I'm very new to Ubuntu and Linux in general, and I couldn't figure out how to install it. I will check it out later as my knowledge improves. – BlackWolf Sep 22 '12 at 23:54
  • It's a command line application, so requires a just a tiny bit command line experience. – Gokhan Sari Sep 23 '12 at 08:40
  • Setup didn't work as advertised. Option --prefix not recognised... – Tony Martin Sep 01 '16 at 07:51
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Try any of these:

  1. MusicBrainz Picard
  2. Beets

Also check this similar question:

Sort music by metadata

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  • Thank you, through a lot of trial and error I got Beets to do a reasonably good job of it, I'm sure with more practice it'll be perfect! Thanks again. P.S. I did try that thread already, it was what led me too Picard, it wasn't quite what I needed though. I didn't want to reopen an old question, sorry if I went about it the wrong way. – BlackWolf Sep 22 '12 at 23:52