Main
On the "Moving rules" -> "Main" tab page of Automatic MP3 Music Organizer main window you can specify rules, according files are moved. This rules define, to which database directory and which subdirectories file is moved, what will be it's name and extension after moving. If you are beginner, or don't need additional functionality, you can use file moving rules, that are defined by default. According to them, all files after processing are moved or copied to directory "Automatic MP3 Music Organizer database", that was created on your desktop while Automatic MP3 Music Organizer installation process.
Main moving rules editor
To edit any of file moving rule, just double-click on it. To execute operations with file moving rules, right-click on the list with them, and you will see following menu:
Context menu of main moving rules editor
Here are detailed descriptions of all context menu items:
- Add - use this context menu item to add new File moving rule.
- Edit - use this context menu item to edit selected File moving rule (rule, by which you right-clicked, when opened this context menu).
- Set values default - set default values for selected file moving rules.
- Specify destination folder - click in this item, if you want to specify for selected file moving rules another destination directory (it will be the same for all selected rules). After clicking on this menu item you will see dialog box for selecting directory, that will be assigned for selected file moving rules as destination directory.
- Move on top - use this context menu item to set selected File moving rule priority to maximum (it also will be shown first in the list).
- Move up - use this context menu item to increase priority of selected File moving rule (also move it to position, closer to list beginning).
- Move down - use this context menu item to decrease priority of selected File moving rule (also move it to position, closer to list bottom).
- Move at bottom - use this context menu item to set selected File moving rule priority to minimum (also make it last in the list).
- Delete - use this context menu item to delete selected File moving rule.
For each type of files you can specify separate File moving rule, or use default rule for files, included in appropriate category.
Even more - you can specify separate destination directories for files of the same type, but different sizes.
Example
You can move all MP3 files (Music records) with size 2 Megabytes to "C:\Music\High quality\" folder, cause they have large size and high quality, and all MP3 files with size less than 2 Megabytes - to "C:\Music\Low quality\" or even delete at all.
Main moving rules editor, 3 sample rules for MP3 audio files
Or another example: AVI files (Video records and films) with size less than 100 Mb Automatic MP3 Music Organizer by your request can move to, for example, "C:\Video\Video clips", cause this file are usual a small video clips, files with size between 500 and 800 Megabytes - to "C:\Video\Films\", cause files with such size are usually films, and all other video files will be moved to "C:\Video\Different\".
Note: If you specified several rules for the same file extension, more common rules must have lower priority (be downer in the list), than other rules for that extension. For example, rule "Move all MP3 audio files to ... directory" should be located in the list lower than rule "Move all MP3 audio files with size from 3 to 10 Megabytes to ... directory", as shown on the picture below.
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