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=== File Naming === | === File Naming === | ||
[[File:Musicbrainz.filenaming.jpg|File Naming options|right|400px]] | [[File:Musicbrainz.filenaming.jpg|File Naming options|right|400px]] | ||
One of the important settings in MusicBrainz is to allow it to "Move Files" and to set a parent directory (e.g. ~/Music) for your collection so that music that is tagged becomes organized in your collection rather than in subdirectories nested below your existing (incongruent) directory structure. | One of the important settings in MusicBrainz is to allow it to "Move Files" and to set a parent directory (e.g. ~/Music) for your collection so that music that is tagged becomes organized in your collection rather than in subdirectories nested below your existing (incongruent) directory structure. | ||
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* http://musicbrainz.org/doc/PicardDocumentation The documentation is a bit brief <-- help out by volunteering for the project | * http://musicbrainz.org/doc/PicardDocumentation The documentation is a bit brief <-- help out by volunteering for the project | ||
* http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/How_To_Tag_Files_With_Picard Illustrated guide in the wiki (should move this content there) | |||
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=GB&hl=en-GB&v=uoM-PdJhtmk YouTube screencast] | * [http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=GB&hl=en-GB&v=uoM-PdJhtmk YouTube screencast] | ||
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCTaYCFfjB4 another YouTube screencast] | * [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCTaYCFfjB4 another YouTube screencast] | ||
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One of the file system artifacts that come from using Windows is "desktop.ini" files in your music directories. You can get rid of these with a simple find command | One of the file system artifacts that come from using Windows is "desktop.ini" files in your music directories. You can get rid of these with a simple find command | ||
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# look first before you leap | # look first before you leap | ||
find ~/Music -name desktop.ini | find ~/Music -name desktop.ini | ||
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find ~/Music -name '*.nfo' -exec rm {} \; | find ~/Music -name '*.nfo' -exec rm {} \; | ||
find ~/Music -name '*.m3u' -exec rm {} \; | find ~/Music -name '*.m3u' -exec rm {} \; | ||
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One of the interesting notes about the project is that they've moved to using Git for managing their source code. | One of the interesting notes about the project is that they've moved to using Git for managing their source code. | ||
[[Category:Music]] | [[Category:Music]] | ||
[[Category:Files]] | |||