Add auto-organize support

I don't understand the bug. Rhythmbox use the tag on the files to sort them by
interpret/album
could you provide an example ?

I was requesting that the actual directories on the filesystem be sorted - so
that CDs full
of music files could be easily burned into CDs which include files from specific
artists or albums in easy-to-navigate directories.

doesn't seem like something that should be worried about for hoary - so closing

This functionality could be provided by something like picard tagger from
musicbrainz.org. Picard is still very alpha though, and I don't think it will be
ready until breezy+1 at least.

I agree totally with the person who intially requested this feature. I have recently imported a large collection of music from someone that was not overly systematic with their file naming conventions. Back in iTune, I would simply import it with the "organise my library" selected and the file and directory structures would be created. If there was incorrect information in song details (as there invariably is) then changing those details in iTunes would mean the corresponding files would be changed. A good example is where soemone has a typo in the artist or album name and therefore additional unecessary directories are created for the saem thing. It is quite frustrating as I am trying very hard to get a Linux alternative to iTunes, but there is nothing in the Linux world that does everything that iTunes does. Rhythmbox seems the closest but simple things like sorting and library file organising are sorely missing. Get those sorted and you have a Linux iTunes real alternative. Keep up the good work!!

Why is this marked as invalid?

I suggest you try amarok.

I'm a little confused about why Banshee is listed as a package affected by this bug. Is this bug also requesting this feature for Banshee? because I'm pretty sure Banshee already does this (but not by default). Edit > Preferences > the options are available under File Policies.

I changed the status to reflect my last comment. Feel free to change it back if I've somehow misinterpreted this.

It is a bit pointless to use a fancy GUI music manager when you still have to maintain the integrity of your library folder yourself.

If the tracks are sorted into folders by artist and album, those folders should update to reflect any changes in the metadata of the tracks themselves. If this is not the case, you end up with a directory structure that is inaccurate and misleading.

Perhaps it is a product of people coming from Windows, expecting to be able to organise their music in the same way. I don't buy that though.

Supposedly, Amerok organises your library. Banshee certainly does.
In addition, so to iTunes and WMP11.

Rhythmbox is missing a rather common feature.

moved from old ubuntu bugzilla to gnome

for anyone not watching the upstream GNOME bug report, a Rhythmbox plugin has been created to address this problem. https://launchpad.net/rb-fileorganizer