Windows 10: [File Explorer] Is there a way to batch-migrate files out of multiple folders into one...

I've downloaded my music library from Google Play, since they are migrating towards YouTube Music. Because I don't wanna use YT Music, I'm downloading the entire library onto my computer to eventually port to a better MP3 app (Android).

However, When I downloaded it and unzipped the folder, my songs were all placed in folders sorted by artist, and then within album folders. The song files themselves all have leading numbers too. Of course a music app may pull the artist and song title information from the music properties, but I want the files to be named without the leading zeros, as the MP3 app I end up using may pull the filename rather than the music data.

The current layout is as follows in this example:

• Capyac [artist folder]
  • Headlunge [album folder]
    • "00 - All Your Life.mp3"
    • "00 - Aufzug.mp3"
    • "11 - 11:35 At A Middle School Cafeteria.mp3"
• [Next artist folder]

Is there a way to pull out the music files from all these artist and album folders in a single batch process? Also, can I rename all the files in a batch, but only in the fashion of deleting the first 5 characters and saving the rest?



I'm thinking this might be a "no" for both questions, but I thought it would be fun to learn how to do so in File Explorer while also saving a ton of time.

Note: I get this a lot, but I will not use YouTube Music. In other conversations people told me to just deal with it. I want a simple MP3 app that's clean. I find it ridiculous that the YouTube Music app needs the screen to remain on in order to play music, just like the YouTube video app. That is, unless you pay to go premium, but that's not worth it for a feature I have used before, for free. Not to mention, ads. I don't deserve ads for a music library whose files I own entirely and am not even buying/streaming from Google. Just putting this out there in case someone were to tell me otherwise. I even considered switching to an iPhone literally because of their native MP3 app which should be standard on all phones. Thank you for listening to my TED Talk.

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Batch Files Knowledge Base

Don't use batch files very much but one I find useful is for creating a list of files in a directory.
Just copy the text below into Notepad and save as Filelist.bat

dir /a /-p /o:gen >filelist.txt

When you run it from a folder it will create a Filelist.txt file,in the same folder, that lists all the files in that folder.Useful when you are too lazy to type all the files out yourself.

 

Batch Files Knowledge Base

Very nice and usefull thanks for contributing.

 

Windows 10 batch copying multiple image files

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Is there away in windows explorer or third party software that I can batch copy and move only the files listed in theCSV? Any help would be appreciated as this is a mammoth task if I cannot batch copy these image files.

Regards