Hi, there. I am a relatively new user of MediaMonkey but I am now struggling with the auto-organize feature. I've read documentation and quickly searched the forum but it's not clear to me what I am doing wrong. I don't want to move files to the wrong location so I would prefer not to take a trial-and-error approach.
TL;DR: MediaMonkey is applying Music organization rules for videos and I haven't yet determined why.
Long explanation:
In Tools -> Options -> Library -> Auto-Organize, I have it set as follows:
Criteria: Collections: Music,Classical Music
Directory: X:\Media\Music
File Format: X:\Media\Music\$Left(<Artist>,25)\<Album> - <Title>
Criteria: Collections: Video
Directory: X:\Media\Video
File Format: <Filename>
I have checked "Automatically organize files (during scans or edits)" (which doesn't seem to work, perhaps another post later on this one), and "Delete emptied folders".
For my music, this has worked great and everything is exactly where I want it.
For my music videos, they show in the Video part of the tree on the left in the MediaMonkey window, but when I select them all and auto-organize, MediaMonkey tries to apply the music rules for moving them. It shows them moving into the Music folder, using the Music file format, which is not what I want. I can, of course, override this on the dialogue box which comes up but it seems that MM should understand based on the options I've set which rule to use.
Edited post: I am using 4.1.20.1864, gold.
How does MediaMonkey decide which criteria to use when I ask it to auto-organize?
Thanks!
Newbie auto-organize question
Moderator: Gurus
Re: Newbie auto-organize question
Tools > Auto-Organize Files is a separate feature from Tools > Options > Auto-Organize. So any rules set in the latter don't affect the manual Auto-Organize Files.
In Auto-Organize Files (which you wouldn't need if you're relying on Auto-Organize) you'd need to setup a single Mask for all files (using $if()) or manually switch between different Masks for different Collections.
Masks: https://www.mediamonkey.com/wiki/index. ... erties/4.0
In Auto-Organize Files (which you wouldn't need if you're relying on Auto-Organize) you'd need to setup a single Mask for all files (using $if()) or manually switch between different Masks for different Collections.
Masks: https://www.mediamonkey.com/wiki/index. ... erties/4.0
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Lowlander (MediaMonkey user since 2003)
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Lowlander (MediaMonkey user since 2003)
Re: Newbie auto-organize question
Okay thank you for the quick response. I was confused by the fact that both the manual process and the automatic process have the "auto organize" in their titles.