mds - Music Directory Transformer

Transforms an Album directory into an Artist -> Album structure based on the metadata of the files in the directory.

Example

$ mds 'Jaco Pastorius - Jaco Pastorius (2010) [FLAC]'
$ tree "Jaco Pastorius"/
Jaco Pastorius/
└── Jaco Pastorius (2010)
    ├── 01 Donna Lee.flac
    ├── ... more flac files
    ├── dir.orig.name.txt
    └── Jaco Pastorius - Jaco Pastorius (2010).cue
$ mds "Jaco Pastorius - Invitation (1983) [FLAC]"
$ mds "Jaco Pastorius - Word Of Mouth (1981) [FLAC]"
$ tree "Jaco Pastorius"/
Jaco Pastorius/
└── Jaco Pastorius (2010)
│   ├── 01 Donna Lee.flac
│   ├── ... more flac files
│   ├── dir.orig.name.txt
│   └── Jaco Pastorius - Jaco Pastorius (2010).cue
├── Invitation (1983)
│    ├── ... more flac files
│    ├── dir.orig.name.txt
│    └── Jaco Pastorius - Invitation (1983).cue
└── Word Of Mouth (1981)
      ├── ... more flac files
      ├── dir.orig.name.txt
      └── Jaco Pastorius - Word of Mouth (1981).cue

Music Directory Transformer keeps a file dir.orig.name.txt inside the new transformed Album directory. This way Music Directory Transformer can transform back the directory to its original directory.

$ mds --revert "Jaco Pastorius/Jaco Pastorius (2010)"/
$ tree "Jaco Pastorius"/
Jaco Pastorius/
└── Jaco Pastorius - Jaco Pastorius (2010) [FLAC]
    ├── 01 Donna Lee.flac
    ├── ... more flac files
    ├── dir.orig.name.txt
    └── Jaco Pastorius - Jaco Pastorius (2010).cue

Caveats

mds does not rename or move the original directory in both normal and reverse operation. mds will not touch the files in the original directory, it will only read its metadata.