Metadata question - Moving/Adding Music Folder Structure ?

[Sp3kt3r 13]

Hi,

 

I created my music folder structure as per what it was recommended:

 

\Music
   \Artist Name
      \Album Name
         1- Song.mp3

         2- Song.mp3

 

but I would like to have a subfolder between Music and Artist Name so that I separate my band album and soundtrack album.

This would also give me the possibility to browse by folder. If I do that right now I have the same layout as ALBUM ARTIST and I don't really like having my soundtrack album mix between my metal or rock album 

 

Ex:

 

\Music
    \Soundtrack
        \Artist Name
             \Album Name

              1- Song.mp3

              2- Song.mp3

        \Artist Name

             \Album Name

              1- Song.mp3

              2- Song.mp3

  \Band

        \Artist Name

             \Album Name

              1- Song.mp3

              2- Song.mp3

 

• If I do, will this create a problem for the metadata ?
   
• Also what is going to happen with all the current metadata ?
   
• Will I have to re-upload the picture (Primary, backdrop, cover) for the one that wasn't found through musicbrainz ? (Ex: indie band)
   
• What should I backup before proceeding ?

 

Thank you !

 

 

 

 

 

Edited October 15, 2014 by Sp3kt3r

[Sp3kt3r 13]

Any other suggestion is also welcome    !

Edited October 15, 2014 by Sp3kt3r

[ginjaninja 539]

Since both soundtracks and bands in your case match mb3 naming convention, why not just have two roots in your music library definition?

Edited October 17, 2014 by ginjaninja

[Sp3kt3r 13]

Are you saying to create 2 library one soundtrack and one band ?

[ginjaninja 539]

For your media folder music define two media locations..under settings..library..

[Sp3kt3r 13]

This is what I was going to do.. add another folder location under music library..

 

This seems to be the only way. My question was more... if I keep it as is but add a level of folder 

\Music
    \Soundtrack
        \Artist Name
             \Album Name

              1- Song.mp3

              2- Song.mp3

 

will Mediabrowser be able to get the metadata if there's a soundtrack folder before Artist. if the root of the library is still Music (Ex V:\Music)

 

Second question is, If I move my soundtrack to the soundtrack folder and create a second library (V:\Music\Soundtrack) will I have to rescan all the metadata for all soundtrack. I don't really mind if the answer is yes BUT there's some unknown soundtrack that I had to manually put the metadata myself and add the cd cover and this I don't really want do it again.. If I have to I will

 

 

update: I started to reorganize my library and structure and I'll let you know the results

Edited October 18, 2014 by Sp3kt3r