dirfields

This little plugin adds a field for each directory of its original path to a media file. For example, if you import the following file:

/music/artist/album/01 - track.mp3

The following fields will be added to the database entry of this file:

dir0: music
dir1: artist
dir2: album
dir3: 01 - track.mp3

(OK, dir3 is not a directory in this case...) Note that the original path is used, not the one the file might be copied or moved to. This can help you if your files are already sorted into some directories and you don't want to loose these folders.

Configuration

To load the plugin, simply add it to your list of plugins:

plugins: dirfields

Levels

You can configure which directories should be added. To do so, use the levels configuration option. List any directory (zero based) level you want to see added. Ranges are also allowed. See the example below. The default is not set so all levels are added.

Field renaming

If you don't want the fields to be named dir4 or so, you can configure other names as you wish. Just use dirN where N is the appropriate level as the configuration key and specify the new name as the value. Warning: You can rename them to fields which are already present like artist or so. This might work but is not tested nor intended. It might lead to confusing results.

Example

dirfields:
    levels: 8,-1,6,4-3,10-
    dir4: my_section