I'm working on the assumption that your files contained metadata before the crash.... ie. if you open a few tracks in Yate, you can see Album, Artist and Title tags. If you do not have any metadata, ignore the following and we'll have to explore different avenues.

I've uploaded a file to:

http://2manyrobots.com/actions/ReorganizeSIngleFolder.zip

Unzip the file and via Yate>Import Preferences import the unzipped plist file.

You will now have an action named: Reorganize Single Folder

and two rename templates named: Variable1 and Title or Filename

Here's how to run:

- From the Actions menu choose Batch Processor Wizard...
- On the first panel select the 'Reorganize Single Folder' action
- On the next panel drag over your folder containing all the tracks
- On the next folder you should not select Auto-Save and you should select Verbose
- hit start
- you will be promoted for a destination folder. This is where the 'artist' folders will be placed.

Try it first on a dummy folder with a few tracks.

When you do the complete run, there will be little or no feedback as the Batch Processor only updates its display counters at the completion of a folder. As you only have one folder, pretty much nothing will be displayed. When the process finishes, View and then save the log file.

Here's what it does for every track:

- it generates a UUID
- it move the track to dest/Artist/Album/UUID.
- if Artist is empty, it uses Unknown Artist
- if Album is empty, it uses Unknown Album
- because a UUID is used, there can be no naming conflicts
- it then renames the moved tracks to the Title field with possible 'duplicate numbers' appended. If Title is empty is empty, the 'original filename' is used.

One more thing to consider. Do you want to use the Album Artist if it is present? This might keep compilations together under a single Various folder. I don't know how you organize your compilations. If you want to do so, you can use Album Artist or Artist if Album Artist is empty. A single edit will have to be made. In the action on the Move statement, change Artist to Album Artist. (Album Artist on the Move statement falls back to Artist, if empty).

I'm only just at the early stages of getting my head around Yate, so please go easy on me!

I'm after a very similar reorganization based on metadata, but with the following structure:

LOSSLESS/AlbumArtist/Albumname/D-TT Title.flac

...where:
D=Disc number (no leading 0)
TT=Track number (with a leading 0)
Title=Track title

Example:
LOSSLESS/Various Artists/The Very Best of Éthiopiques/2-09 Kulun Mankwalèsh.flac

No requirement for "Artist" — happy to get that from the metadata in the file when it's all in Roon.

Could I be incredibly cheeky and ask for some help in getting that up and running? Yate seems perfect, other than the Help pages have boggled my tiny mind in a way that the dBPoweramp ones didn't. I *love* that it feels like a Mac app 😀

(Related question — any reason to worry about pointing Yate at a 1TB folder of FLACs and asking it to strip them all of Genre metadata in one go?)

Amazing 🙂

The 1TB of FLAC files is in subfolders with the same root folder:

LOSSLESS/AlbumArtist/Album/file.FLAC

It would be easy enough for me to manually chunk them up into more reasonably-sized folders (10GB? 50GB?)

In fact, maybe it’s worth mentioning now that I want to be able to perform both of these actions (the rename and move based on metadata, as well as the genre removal) on FLACs and MP3s.

They are kept separately as follows:
LOSSLESS/
LOSSY/

Happy to do some manual moving/chunking here too, if that’s better.

Thanks so much for the help!