id3-to-directories

id3-to-directories

A command-line tool to organize a directory of unsorted (but ID3 tagged) music files into "Artist Name/Album Name/Song Title.ext" sub-directory structure under a location specified by an environment variable.

We operate with the assumption that most users are going to have a primary "music directory" on their computer. For instance on linux environments, this will often be $HOME/Music. We use this assumption to make the operation of this tool as simple as possible where you have to supply a single argument, the source directory which contains unsorted (but ID3 tagged) files.

I wrote this package over a few minutes while playing with the excellent node-id3 package and as such this tool addresses a limited use-case. But this being a GPLV3 package, feel free to submit PRs or fork the repo to support your own use case.

Installation

npm i -g id3-to-directories

Usage

Set an environment variable

In your .bashrc (or equivalent) export the variable MUSIC_STORAGE_DIRECTORY. For instance,

export MUSIC_STORAGE_DIRECTORY=/home/adamsmith/Music

Invoke the command

id3-to-directories /home/adamsmith/Downloads

This will cause all the mp3 files present in /home/adamsmith/Downloads (and sub-directories) to be moved into corresponding /home/adamsmith/Music/<artist name>/<album name>/<song title>.<extension> directories.

Credits

The real magic of reading ID3 tags is performed by the node-id3 package. I only wrote some very simple FS walking logic which uses the said package.