At the moment i have my music folders on an external usb drive that id like to get organised and added to the G:\MusicDB folder.
I havent even thought about having torrents in my monitor folder.
My intention is to copy those folders that are on the usb drive to the monitor folder where they will be organised and swept to the inbox folder (so i can see all new files added) and tag them properly, and when tagged i send them manually to the library on G:\MusicDB
Is there a better way to do this? Where did i fail in the setup?
I'm assuming here that the external usb drive is the G:/ drive and you haven't had MB scan the location for files when first installed1. Go to auto-organise and set up
move:music | on drive:G:\ | to folder:G:\MusicDB | naming template: [here you need to work out how you are going to have your tracks organised by tags, when you have finished tagging them properly]
2. Make sure 'also move remaining non-media files' and 'do not reorganise files with missing naming tags' are ticked
Note that none of these settings will effect files that have not been added to your music library!
3. Now go to monitored folders> Choose Folders
Add the G:\ drive to your monitored folders - deselecting any sub-folder with music files you don't want to show up in your Inbox
(you may have close and re-open the 'Choose Folders' dialog to have the sub-folders appear)
4. select 'continuously monitor' (you can un-tick 'include video files' if you are not using them)
5. In new file action: select 'add to inbox'
only Do not select 'mark and send duplicates to the inbox'
Do not select 'automatically sweep and organise new files'
6. Apply and Save preferences, then restart MB.
MB will now go through your G:\ drive looking for music files and they will be sent to MB's Inbox.
This is a virtual folder and the files are not actually moved off the G:\ drive
You access this by clicking 'Inbox' in the LH navigation panel
When you have tagged your file/s to your liking in the inbox, select and right-click to 'Send To> Music Library'
MB will then use the template you defined in auto-organise to re-name the files and move them to G:\MusicDB\"whatever template you decided"
Hope this clears things up for you