Organize Collection

Overview

While organizing your collection in Amarok is a straight forward task, You will be manipulating the actual files on your hard drive. Please be sure you have a backup of your files before you begin.

With the Organize Files function of Amarok, you can easily manage the media files on your hard drive. When you change the name format of media files, you will organize them, which is very powerful. To acces the Organize Files function, right-clickLocal Collection -> Organize Files in the Media Sources panel and the menu interface will pop-up.

Organizing Files

Can be done using the following interface:

Interface

Interface Item	Description
Collection Folder	The default collection folder. Set multiple folders in Settings -> Configure Amarok.
Tokens Bar	Drag/drop multiple tokens to configure the name format of your media files. Only available in basic view.
Format Presets	When you have created the desirable name format, save as a preset by clicking Save Preset, or remove by clicking Remove Preset.
Replace Spaces With Underscores	If checked, converts spaces in filenames to underscores.
Ignore 'The' in Artist names	If checked, artists' names starting with 'The' will instead be styled ' ,The'.
VFAT Safe Names	If checked, replaces characters that are incompatible with MS-DOS/VFAT file systems with underscores. Most people can leave this option enabled.
Restrict to ASCII	If checked, all non-ASCII characters will be replaced with underscores. Do not check this option if you have non-English characters in your tags. Most people can leave this option unchecked.
Custom Character Replacement	Replace the tag expressions you write under the Replace box with character strings you write in the With box. Useful if there are mis-spellings in CDDB.
Destination Preview	Shows the original name format of your media files and how they will look after the changes are applied.
Overwrite Destination	If checked, overwrites files of the same name without asking for further confirmation.

Advanced Contents

The code version of The Tokens Bar, which allows you to code the name format of media files. Activate it by pressing Advanced... in the interface menu. To change back click Basic....