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[Solved ]Move non-music files on move action, too
PowderPostOctober 6, 2013, 16:18
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Normal topic[Solved ]Move non-music files on move action, too

When running the move action, non-music files like playlists, pdfs and images are left behind in the old folder. It would be nice if it would be possible to select which file types to move as well besides the music.
2MR2PostOctober 6, 2013, 16:22
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v2.4 has a new action function called 'Move Non Audio Files' for doing exactly what you'd like. I use it in my workflow 🙂
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Okay, great 🙂
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It would be much easier to use this function if you added Retained Path 1+2 to the drop down menu to use the function out of the box after a move function.
2MR2PostOctober 24, 2013, 10:59
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Good idea. Next patch or release 🙂
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Implemented in v2.5.1 coming soon.
rocklobsterPostJune 4, 2015, 04:48
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Normal topicRe: [Solved ]Move non-music files on move action, too

I'm having trouble getting this to work as desired. Help appreciated!

I'd like to move all files to an absolute target folder, including non-audio files and subfolders within album folders. Compilations should go into "Compilations" folder then album, non-compilations should go into artist/album/files. I'm able to achieve that part with 2 functions, one for each case.

But the non-audio files seems only to work for the first album moved. For the rest, the non-audio files are ignored. I tried duplicating the non-audio move function, so one instance goes after each of the comp and non-comp cases. But that didn't seem to matter. The option to "use retained paths" is on.

Here's a screenshot:

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The second issue here is what about subfolders as mentioned above? Can those be moved as well?
2MR2PostJune 4, 2015, 06:41
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There is no conditional component around the first 'Move Non Audio' files It s always moving. There is nothing left to move on the second.
Your logic states:

- if not part of a compilation move here
- move non audio files to the same place as the statement before
- if part of a compilation move here
- move non audio files to the same place as the statement before

The 'retained' path storage is set cleared by each Move statement and the non audio files can't go to two places.

A lot depends on whether the selected files/folder are clean. i.e.. all compilation or not. If the source tracks are not all the same you'll have to decide where the non audio files should go.
rocklobsterPostJune 4, 2015, 13:30
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Not sure I understand this, sorry to be dense. I want to be able to select all new tracks over multiple albums and have the non-audio files go into the folder of the sorted album, regardless of whether they are compilations or not. Remember please I'm switching from Media Rage. That has an organize tool that does exactly what I want, with roughly these settings:

Organization output (folders created):
Artist Album
group compilations (checked)
organize non-media files (checked)
rearrange artist articles (checked)
2MR2PostJune 4, 2015, 15:24
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You're not being dense. 🙂 there's a lot going on here.

Most people use the Move non Audio files on a folder/album at a time.

The way it's implemented in Yate is that once the audio files have been moved, Yate has no knowledge of the initial folder. That's why the Move statement keeps the source and data paths in the Retained Path properties. If you use it while batch processing or with a single file selected, it will work as expected. Alternately, an action can be written to associate the files and folders and to move each track and its associated audio files. Basically the action would go through each track and read the retained properties creating a key-value list of source paths and destination paths. It would then issue a separate Move non Audio Files for each source-dest path pair. Actually this could also be extracted from the current and original folder locations. Lots of ways to do this but it does involve multiple Move Non Audio Statements.

All of this assumes that you don't have compilations and non compilations in the same folder. The non audio files can only be moved once. I can generate a sample action for you later tonight....I'm still recovering from having no internet connectivity for most of the day. 🙁
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