Hi to all , sorry my question....

[Johntr]

Hi to all , sorry if i ask about my question , but i'm so desperate i look an lot around the web..but find nothing about that i need .....i will ask here to you , because i look the forum and i see talk about full release stuff(mean .nfo , .sfv , .m3u) and my is an question related a this , happen you can help me ,and i will thanks in advanced . So my question is that , i need tool for organize my mp3 , i have directory type NameArtist-NameSong-Year with inside .nfo .sfv. .m3u .mp3 file and i will organize in directory type so Year/Month/day but can be good type Year/Month . Problems is that i not find nothing utility can does this and i look much around....... my idea think something can read date in .nfo file and after take all directory and make/put inrelated directory(Year/month/day) . So you can suggest some utility for that or any other idea?

[MxxCon]

it would be very hard(and frankly stupid) to try to parse .nfo files to find year/month of that release.
easier if you search freedb to find that info

[Johntr]

maybe i explein bad , i looking for utility that can read date in .nfo file and after create related folder , type if .nfo have date Feb-20-2005 that software must create or move in folder 2005/Feb/20 or also 2005/0220 all file in same folder where .nfo is, automatically. About that you tell me ,of need in database ,maybe not bad idea ,but impossible because don't know where get that .

[Harm]

I agree with MxxCon. It would be very hard to extract a date from a .nfo file. There's no standard for such files: there are many different formats for the dates and they're absolutely not located at the same place in the files.

Talking about freedb, what about http://www.freedb.org/ ?

PS: May I ask why you're trying to sort the files by date ? Sorting by artist or genre (or even production year) is usefull... but I can't understand the need to sort old directories by date. Please explain it to me.

[EwarWoo]

Do you mean dated dirs as in directories on ftp sites where they get uploaded? If so they're not created like that, they are created then the person uploads into the correct date, its a manual sort. I dont know of anything to do this automatically either.

[Johntr]

Originally Posted by Harm

I agree with MxxCon. It would be very hard to extract a date from a .nfo file. There's no standard for such files: there are many different formats for the dates and they're absolutely not located at the same place in the files.

Talking about freedb, what about http://www.freedb.org/ ?

PS: May I ask why you're trying to sort the files by date ? Sorting by artist or genre (or even production year) is usefull... but I can't understand the need to sort old directories by date. Please explain it to me.

Well , i know hard extract date .nfo , not stadard for it , but don't think impossbile also because date are almost often in this format Month-day-year (exemple : Aug-31-2005). I think if the soft can work for more base type of date varying, also if can't does 100% of work , also 90% can be good .....other can does manually eventually. Or have an user option for insert new specific varying of the date . About your question , because i not sorting by artist or genre , well , i prefer organize for date ,because like more know in specific when was released single,album ecc.. and anyway find for artist is simple , genre no problem im interested only to Euro/ItaloDance and Trance music .

Originally Posted by EwarWoo

Do you mean dated dirs as in directories on ftp sites where they get uploaded? If so they're not created like that, they are created then the person uploads into the correct date, its a manual sort. I dont know of anything to do this automatically either.

yes , so , but for organize old release , so i look for an utility. Thank the same for info

[DayCuts]

Parsing an nfo to find a date is infact not hard at all, providing you know how to script in the language you use, however it is an impractical way of sorting old releases.

There are however several zipscript type scripts/addons for the most commonly used ftpd's. If the ftpd is on a linux box i suggest either drftpd or glftpd, and use the relevent zip/sorting script. PZS-NG (formerly zipscript-c) it one of the best and is able to automatically create a sorted link section for 'incoming' stuff. There are also several other sorting scripts i have seen to aid users in archiving files.

As far as a lot of old stuff goes, if you have a good zip and/or sort script loaded when the files are sent it can be done automatically, but for stuff already there it is much easier to just sort the old stuff manually.

Also, dated incoming folders on such warez ftp's are infact not created manually, an appropriate script is loaded to make the automatically.

www.glftpd.at
www.pzs-ng.com

Harm, just to answer your question, such sites always sort files physically by year and/or month and/or day (in case of mp3 for example where there are 100's of such illegal releases per day). They are sorted this way for convenience (easier to see what is new at a glance, or check the relative day folder once a day etc). These same sites always have a link folder which has all the dynamic links and sorting catagories (by.date by.genre by.artist and so on)

[EwarWoo]

Originally Posted by DayCuts

Also, dated incoming folders on such warez ftp's are infact not created manually, an appropriate script is loaded to make the automatically.

The dirs are made automatically but uploads are sorted into them manually

[Johntr]

Originally Posted by DayCuts

Parsing an nfo to find a date is infact not hard at all, providing you know how to script in the language you use, however it is an impractical way of sorting old releases.

There are however several zipscript type scripts/addons for the most commonly used ftpd's. If the ftpd is on a linux box i suggest either drftpd or glftpd, and use the relevent zip/sorting script. PZS-NG (formerly zipscript-c) it one of the best and is able to automatically create a sorted link section for 'incoming' stuff. There are also several other sorting scripts i have seen to aid users in archiving files.

As far as a lot of old stuff goes, if you have a good zip and/or sort script loaded when the files are sent it can be done automatically, but for stuff already there it is much easier to just sort the old stuff manually.

Also, dated incoming folders on such warez ftp's are infact not created manually, an appropriate script is loaded to make the automatically.

www.glftpd.at
www.pzs-ng.com

Harm, just to answer your question, such sites always sort files physically by year and/or month and/or day (in case of mp3 for example where there are 100's of such illegal releases per day). They are sorted this way for convenience (easier to see what is new at a glance, or check the relative day folder once a day etc). These same sites always have a link folder which has all the dynamic links and sorting catagories (by.date by.genre by.artist and so on)

thanks for info DayCuts ,but i don't have ftp ,so can't try use that script