You cannot use rename to modify any folder other than the parent folder. The correct way to do it is with a move, a rename and by moving the non audio files.

Try the following in an action: CAREFUL ABOUT READING THIS IN THE EMAIL NOTIFICATION AS THE MAILER STRIPS THE ESCAPE CHARACTERS!

1) Set Variable 1 to "\u"
2) Move to /{root}/Album Artist/<(Year) Album/Variable 1>
3) Rename Files (Title)
4) Move all non audio files using original and current folders (delete original and parent folder if empty)

1) sets Variable 1 to a unique identifier. The Move statement cannot handle duplicates as does the rename statement.
2) does the move. Replace /{root} with your actual root folder or change the move to be relative. Make sure (Album Artist) is consistent. The <(Year) Album/Variable 1> rename template simply renames the file to the UUID (which is guaranteed to be unique). It also adds a path component for the album level. The Move statement can effectively create 4 metadata constructed folders. 3 specified inline and 1 from the rename template.
3) Renames the files (not folders! Do not include a Folder Start). Use whatever rename template you wish but it should handle duplicates.
4) Moves all non audio files which were left behind. You can edit this statement to move all (as above), or to include/exclude files. The statement also deletes the containing folder and its parent if empty.

The '(Year) Album/Variable 1' rename template is:

❨Variable 1❩ ❨Folder Start❩ (❨Year❩)·❨Album❩

My 'Title' rename template is:

❨Title❩ ❨IfDup❩·(❨Dup #❩)

Ahh, naughty, naughty. If you'd have gone down my route it wouldn't have happened. Rename always replaces : and / characters with the Preferences-General-Invalid Character sequence.

Intentionally the Move does not replace / characters in the path as that gives you the ability to construct additional path components. However, in what is somewhat of a bug, I'm not replacing the : characters. Apple is changing : to slash-space. I will put in code to change : characters to the invalid character field.....however, I will not replace / characters as it is a useful capability.

If your base path includes metadata, you could have a / at any time in the Title or any other field. This will result in an additional folder level you do not want. I suggest not putting the metadata on the base path and going down the road I outlined in the previous answer.

I've attached the Move statement with a bogus base path.

You've set a system variable in preferences....not a per file variable. System variables are 10 for the entire application. Standard variables are 10 per audio file.

You did not put statement #1 into the action. You omitted the following statement:

Set Variable 1 to "\u"'

Also, the (Year) Album/Variable 1 statement should be restored and there are some extraneous spaces in the template.

My, fault I'm working on the next update to Yate and I was too lazy to go to my 'release' Mac. I've now done so 🙂

I've uploaded a file contains a DeadmanMove action and the used templates to:

https://2manyrobots.com/actions/DeadmanMove.zip

Unzip the file and do a Yate>Import Preferences (with Overwrite as the conflict mode) on the DeadmanMove.plist file. You will have the DeadmanMove action. Take a look...it should make sense. I've used \h as a replacement for your Home folder so that I could test.

BTW: I've fixed the : in a constructed path bug.

Hello again, I am trying to make an edit to the script you provided me but again am running into issues.

What I am wanting, is, if the files have a disc number assigned to them, I want them in subfolders with the disc number

ie. Aerosmith/This Rocks (2016)/
Disc 01/
Disc 02/
etc.

I want the number padded as shown, and I would like the script to skip albums where there is only one disc,

sorry, let me try to be more clear.

Yes, if there is only one disc (empty or all disc 1) keep the current renaming scheme you already made for me.

2nd, I manually did this for what I currently have, so just new additions would be fine,