How to copy Music/Artists/Albums/Songs to Music2/Artists/Songs

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How to copy Music/Artists/Albums/Songs to Music2/Artists/Songs

Hi,

My Music folder is currently organized as follows (standard iTunes behaviour):

Music	Artists	Albums
Artist1	Album1	Song11
Song12
Song13
Album2	Song21
Song22
Artist2	Album1	Song11
Song12
Album2	Song21
Song22
Song23

etc.

I would like to copy this Music Folder to an USB flash drive, but without the "Albums" level, i.e.:

Music2	Artists	Songs
Artist1	Song11
Song12
Song13
Song21
Song22
Artist2	Song11
Song12
Song21
Song22
Song23

I assume that an unix shell script is able to do this, but this is beyond my skills😟

Or do you know a software that can manipulate files in such a way?

Thanks in advance.

Posted on Jul 31, 2013 1:22 AM

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Answer 1

Jul 31, 2013 1:52 AM in response to Cemoi

Work from the Music list in iTunes, not the Music/Library folder in the Finder.

On your USB stick create a folder with the name of an artist.

Click on 'Songs' in the bar above the Music window. Type the name of the artist in the Search field at top right.

Click on any song, then hit command-a to highlight all songs. Drag to the folder you created.

Repeat for other artists. It's not as convenient as a script to do it all at once, but unless someone knows of one which is ready-made it's probably faster than trying to write and debug one.

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Answer 2

Cemoi Author

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Jul 31, 2013 9:26 AM in response to Roger Wilmut1

Thanks Roger, but I have almost 200 different Artists in my iTunes library.

Creating that many folders, and typing their names, would take hours.

Then putting the songs inside each folder as you suggested, would also take quite a bit of time.

So I'm still hoping to find a miracle software, or an unix guru here 😉

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Answer 3

CMCSK

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Jul 31, 2013 3:24 PM in response to Cemoi

Cemoi wrote:

or an unix guru here 😉

Try the unix forum area.

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Answer 4

Cemoi Author

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Aug 6, 2013 12:47 PM in response to CMCSK

Thanks CMCSK, I had searched Apple discussions for such a forum unsuccessfully.

If anyone is interested, the solution is in https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5208231?answerId=22647909022#22647909022

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