Music - Move files without renaming

[xccxxx]

Hi
Long time user of filebot for tv and movie renaming, thanks for the great piece of software.

I'm just trying to set this up to process music files, where all I want done is a simple move to a different directory "music" but to maintain the exact filename and structure of the original download.

I currently have the filebot formatting on this as /music/{f}
which basically does what i want, but seems to add in an extra file extension on the move.


e.g
original file
/download/The.Beatles.Abbey.Road.1969/01.Come.Together.flac

becomes
/music/The.Beatles.Abbey.Road.1969/01.Come.Together.flac.flac

Is this a known bug, or should I be using another format expression rather than {f}


Thanks

[rednoah]

{f} is the complete file path. Your format is expected to generate a file path without extension.


You can click Settings ➔ Extension ➔ Override to configure FileBot to use the generated path (which may or may not generate an extension depending on your format) verbatim as is.


You can try {folder}/{fn} as format. {folder} is the folder path. {fn} is the filename without extension.

[xccxxx]

Thanks - /{folder}/{fn} gives the output what I was looking for.

[xccxxx]

Ive had this going now for the last few months and it has been working well

/{folder}/{fn} copies across the music with the same folder and filename, which is what i want it to do.

However, i noticed that this ONLY copies music files, and ignores anything else such as artwork or text files etc that might be in the folder as well.
Is there something I can add to this string in order to make sure it copies everything across.

Thank you

[rednoah]

The Import Companion Files post processing option might work for you.

[xccxxx]

Thank you.

Code: Select all

--apply import

worked exactly how I wanted.