Created: 2009/09/17
Updated: 2009/09/17

Tips for Organizing and Using a Large Digital Music Collection

Media Monkey (windows). 50k+ tracks in iTunes? Yea, sure. Use this instead.

Better File Rename (windows). Self-explanitory. Indispensable.

Mp3tag (windows). I used this a *lot* prior to discovering Media Monkey. Still find it very useful.

AutoIt (windows). Mouth of Horse: "AutoIt is a freeware BASIC-like scripting language designed for automating the Windows GUI and general scripting."

Problem
Convert directories with structure:
/Artist Name - Album Name/track 0...track N
to
/Artist Name/Album Name/track 0...track N

Solution
Add a new context menu item to Explorer similar to: D:\My Documents\Apps\do_album_subdir.exe %1

To add a new context menu item to explorer for a drive
In Regedit find HKET_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell
(note \Folder not \.Folder)
Click on the shell folder, right click, choose new|key to add a new key to shell. Call it the item to be displayed in the menu.
click on the new key and, right click and choose new|key. This time call the key command.
click on the Default entry in the command folder, right click and choose modify. Type in the executable to be run (you might need to give the full path) and add a space then %1. The %1 means that the drive letter will be passed as a parameter to the exe.

do_album_subdir.exe (md5: 62EF5BBE1533D0D5C85CF775D15A9C98)
do_album_subdir.au3 (AutoIt source file - modify for your use-case)