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Alex Lowe
Alex Lowe

Reputation: 871

Automatically move files with python

I am trying to make a python script that will allow me to place music into one large folder so when I run the script it will create folders according to the first part of the music files. So let's say I have a music file called OMFG - Ice Cream.mp3 I would like to be able to split each music file name so that instead of OMFG - Ice Cream.mp3 it would chop it off in this case Ice Cream.mp3 and then it would use OMFG to create a folder called that. After it created that folder I would then like to find out a way to then move, in this case OMFG - Ice Cream.mp3 into the folder that was just created.

Here is my code so far:

import os

# path = "/Users/alowe/Desktop/testdir2"
# os.listdir(path)
songlist = ['OMFG - Ice Cream.mp3', 'OMFG - Hello.mp3', 'Dillistone - Sad & High.mp3']
teststr = str(songlist)
songs = teststr.partition('-')[0]
print ''.join(songs)[2:-1]

My main trouble is how to loop through each object in the string.

Thanks, Alex

Upvotes: 1

Views: 3728

Answers (2)

jfs
jfs

Reputation: 414149

It is convenient to use pathlib module for such tasks:

#!/usr/bin/env python3
import sys
from pathlib import Path

src_dir = sys.argv[1] if len(sys.argv) > 1 else Path.home() / 'Music'
for path in Path(src_dir).glob('*.mp3'): # list all mp3 files in source directory
    dst_dir, sep, name = path.name.partition('-')
    if sep: # move the mp3 file if the hyphen is present in the name
        dst_dir = path.parent / dst_dir.rstrip()
        dst_dir.mkdir(exist_ok=True) # create the leaf directory if necessary
        path.replace(dst_dir / name.lstrip()) # move file

Example:

$ python3.5 move-mp3.py /Users/alowe/Desktop/testdir2

It moves OMFG - Ice Cream.mp3 to OMFG/Ice Cream.mp3.

If you want to move OMFG - Ice Cream.mp3 to OMFG/OMFG - Ice Cream.mp3:

#!/usr/bin/env python3.5
import sys
from pathlib import Path

src_dir = Path('/Users/alowe/Desktop/testdir2') # source directory
for path in src_dir.glob('*.mp3'): # list all mp3 files in source directory
    if '-' in path.name: # move the mp3 file if the hyphen is present in the name
        dst_dir = src_dir / path.name.split('-', 1)[0].rstrip() # destination
        dst_dir.mkdir(exist_ok=True) # create the leaf directory if necessary
        path.replace(dst_dir / path.name) # move file

Upvotes: 2

ellaRT
ellaRT

Reputation: 1366

You can try out this code that:

  • Loops through the list
  • Split each element into the list
  • Create folder if it does not exist yet
  • Transfer music to that folder

Loops through the list

    import os
    import shutil
    songlist = ['OMFG - Ice Cream.mp3', 'OMFG - Hello.mp3', 'Dillistone - Sad & High']
    m_dir = '/path/mainfolder'
    song_loc = '/path/songlocation'

    for song in songlist:
        s = song.split('-')
        if os.path.exists(os.path.join(m_dir,s[0])):
            shutil.copy(os.path.join(song_loc,song),os.path.join(m_dir,s[0].strip()))
        else:
            os.makedirs(os.path.join(m_dir,s[0]))
            shutil.copy(os.path.join(song_loc,song),os.path.join(m_dir,s[0].strip()))

Upvotes: 1

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