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Old 08-14-2014, 06:13 PM   #41
eschwartz
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Originally Posted by Nova5 View Post
I would much prefer to be able structure the file system to my preference and have calibre adapt to that. I use MediaMonkey for audio and video. I have a scheme I use that woorks well for me with that software. While it would let me have them randomly spread around, I structure it so...

Music = Artist / Album / Artist - Track.mp3
Video = Title first letter / title.m4v
Video Series = Series / Season X / title.m4v


This way if the SQL database goes boom I can still find what I want easily through explorer. I need to look at what Cal does when I put it on my server to try and use the content server I think I read it has.
Then you will be delighted to know that calibre stores all books as

Author/Title (calibre-id)/Title - Author.epub
Author/Title (calibre-id)/Title - Author.mobi
Author/Title (calibre-id)/Title - Author.azw3
Author/Title (calibre-id)/Title - Author.pdf
Author/Title (calibre-id)/Title - Author.whatever
Author/Title (calibre-id)/cover.jpeg
Author/Title (calibre-id)/metadata.opf


Very easy to manage via the file browser, although custom tagging will not be visible in the directory structure. And all the metadata is in the metadata.opf, which can be read as straight XML.

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