Audials can name your songs according to the scheme artist - song title and save all songs in the same folder. But you can also define other rules for the structure of the music files, for example if a new folder should be created for each album.
1. Open the "Music" menu item in Audials and open the upper left dropdown menu "My Music". A menu will open in which your media collections are displayed.
2. Open the options for your PC. Another window will open in which you can choose where Audials should save your audio and video files. From now on Audials will save all recordings in these folders according to their media type.
3. To set more precise rules for structuring and naming your files, click on "Expert" in that window. A further window will appear.
4. Select "Automatically update subfolder and file names ... ... when editing tags" at the bottom of the dialog box.
5. Select how Audials should structure and name your music (and your videos) in the future. Here are some examples with the song Billie Jean from the album Thriller by Michael Jackson:
\Artist - Title.ext
Audials saves new tracks directly in the chosen base folder. The filename of the track contains the name of the artist and the song. Example: Michael Jackson - Billie Jean
\Artist - Album - Title.ext
Audials saves new tracks directly in the chosen base folder. The filename of the track contains the name of the artist, the album and the song. Example: Michael Jackson - Thriller - Billie Jean
\Artist\Artist - Title.ext
Audials saves new tracks in folders named by artist. The filename of the track contains the name of the artist and the song. Example: Michael Jackson - Billie Jean in the folder Michael Jackson.
\Genre\Artist\Album\nr Title.ext
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. Example: 1 Billie Jean in the folder Thriller. This folder is stored in the folder Michael Jackson. The lastter is stored in the folder 80s.
\Artist\Year\Artist - Title.ext
Example: Michael Jackson - Billie Jean in the folder 1982 that is stored in the folder Michael Jackson.
New in Audials 2022: Specifying your individual rule for folders and file names
Alternatively, you can create own rules that define in which folder your files are stored and how they are named. To do that, click "Add/Edit rules" in the expert window.
Then click " +New Rule".
Now you can click on the plus sign below "Rule" to select genre, album, title and much more information for the naming. Sub-folders are separated from each other by a backslash \.
If you like, give your new rule an individual name and save your entries by clicking OK.
Comments
6 comments
i am not interested in separating the tracks into individual folders, the Audials tagger is so crap it can't recognise the correct album a track is from 90% of the time meaning that this will create lots of folders none of which are correct.
I need to be able to save everything into a single folder (Audials 2019 ignores the One common subfolder.. option) and have filenames set a I want them.
choosing the one common subfolder and naming convention artist - album - nr - track.ext doesn't work and there is no indication of how the naming convention should correctly be.
I would like the option to create the file folder name using the disc number of a track for albums that contain multiple CDs. There isn't an attribute for this, although it is in the Spotify source.
As it works at present if I save a streamed album that was on two CDs I end up with a folder containing two track 01s, two track 02s etc and then my audio player plays the tracks in the wrong order.
I agree with sknab that an attribute for disc number needs to be added for multi-disc recordings. I have ran into this many times and end up needing to rename files to show they are in order without disc numbers.
I have used Audials enough to pay to upgrade and I do like the improvements but
I think the help files need to be expanded. The save tracks as could use more explanation. I wonder if you can change the preset types to something like Artist/Album/Track number-track name. Like---- Bob Dylan/Time Out Of Mind/ 1-XXXX.mp3.
Also the New 2021 version still never gets the album just calls everything "unknown" and it sometimes makes separate folders for several songs from the same album if a song features another artist (but is on the same album).
If I record several Bob Dylan albums at different times they all end up in 1 Bob Dylan folder with a subfolder called unknown then I have to create separate folders for each album then divide the songs. Which means looking up each album. It seems like the tag ID's would be able to do this automatically.
A help button within the menus would be more helpful since it would be more context sensitive.
Thank You
The file naming format of \artist - title.ext doesn't work. It's labeling my files with the track number and then the title (which is the original file name) instead of the artist and then title. In Windows File Explorer, I only have "Contributing artists" or "Album artist" to choose from. Help!
Audials has really screwed up the Rules Editor in v2021. I have been using the editor in v2019, v2020 but in v2021 it is all screwed up. The tagging of the songs is also incorrect in many ways. The track numbers are also missing on some of the downloads. Do not know what database they have been using. End up using MusicBee to manually tag the files to the correct names, track numbers. created a lot of waste of my time.
The sad part is they will have a new version, expecting users to pay up and releasing a step back software. Do not take away useful features.
I sympathize with all the comments from users on these page and they are correct.
I loved Audials when it was not v2021.
Customer service is good and replies in a timely manner, the software programmers have to get off their ass and fix the software like it used to work in the older versions.
Thank you.
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