The script below will search through a given directory for all mp3 files, determine the artist and title from the filename, and then group them into directories by artist. It makes sorting MP3's a lot less tedious. Be sure to check all the directory paths before you run it on your collection.

Update: Now bases information on ID tags of MP3 file instead of title. 

#!/usr/bin/perl

use warnings;
use strict;
use File::Copy;
use MP3::Info;

chdir "d:\\music\\new";

my ($artist, $song, $dirname, $wait, $info);

while(glob("*.mp3"))
{
    $info = get_mp3tag($_);
    ($artist, $song) = ($info->{ARTIST}, $info->{TITLE});

    next unless $artist and $song;

    $dirname = "..\\" . $artist;
    $dirname =~ s/the//g;
    $dirname =~ s/ /_/g;
    $dirname =~ s/^\s*//g;
    $dirname =~ s/\s*$//g;
    $dirname = lc $dirname;
    
    if(!(-e $dirname and -d $dirname))
    {
        print "Create $dirname folder?";
        mkdir $dirname if <STDIN> =~ /^y/; 
    }
    
    if(-e $dirname and -d $dirname)
    {
        print "moving $artist - $song.mp3 to $dirname folder.\n";
        move($_, "$dirname\\$artist - $song.mp3");
    }

}

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In reply to MP3 Sorter by batkins

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