Choosing folders and filenames

Choose output folders and naming of new media files for structuring your current standard storage.

1. Open the Options
2. Click Storages & output.
3. Click Configure filenames, folders, ... .
   Choose base folders for audio and video recordings. Starting from now, Audials saves all recordings into these base folders, according to their file type.
4. To change the output subfolder structure and file naming for new recordings, click Configure subfolders and filenames, and then choose a naming rule for subfolders and filenames.
5. On the buttom of the dialog window, select Automatically update subfolders and filenames... ...when editing tags.
6. Examples for naming rules of subfolders and filenames:
   

   Rule	Filename	Folder structure in the base folder
   Default for music: \artist\artist/track.ext	artist - track	Audials saves new tracks in folders named by artist.
   Default for videos: \artist - track.ext	artist - track	Audials saves new tracks directly in the chosen base folder.
   \genre \artist \album \nr track. ext	nr track	Audials saves new tracks in a folder named by the album. This folder is contained by a folder named by artist, which you find in a folder named by genre.
   \artist \year \artist - track.ext	artist - track	Audials saves new tracks in folders for each artist and there in a subfolder named by the year.