Delete folder without deleting contents

[huff9121]

My music files are all in folders from Music, Artist, Album example: (C:\Users\admin\Music\3 Doors Down\Away From The Sun\Here Without You.mp3)

However I am putting them on a USB flash drive to put into my car so I can listen to all my music and my car will list every single folder including subfolders in such a messy way so you can only imagine how long it takes to scroll through them to get to a song. So what I want to do is just have the artist folder with all the mp3 files in it without the album folders. Is there a way I can delete all album folders while keeping the files and the files just go up to the parent (artist) folder?

I appreciate all the feedback.

 

[DSzymborski]

Just do a search for *.* in the base directory and drag them to the base directory.

 

[mudpuppet]

Your best bet is to take a few minutes, copy the songs, back out to the artist, paste and then delete the album. If you're creating a seperate folder to upload on to the drive, you can create the folders for the artists you want to throw on there, then just copy and paste based on the songs for that artist you want. I don't think there's a way to delete a mid level folder like that as "delete" says delete this folder and everything it contains (the subfolders and all data within).

 

[Math Geek]

in the past i simply started a new folder. make folders for the artist names and then from a second window start dragging and dropping the songs from the album folders to this new folder. it won't take long and will probably be faster than using a single window and clicking back and forth a bunch to move all the songs to the base folder.

there is no way i know of to delete this middle folder yet retain the files under it. this is just not what the delete button does.

it is also curious that your car is not using the mp3 tag to search and organize the files. normally so long as the tags are right, then the file structure means nothing. are all your tags correct and the way you want them? it can take forever to fix a few thousand of them but once it is done, the results are obvious on most mp3 playing systems. i hate getting music from someone else that does not bother with keeping the tags in order. can be a huge pain to tag a lot of files so my mp3 player knows what the heck the file is. nothing sucks more than a few hundred songs listed as "unknown artist, unknown song, unknown album" just because someone could not be bothered to tag as the files were acquired.... pretty useless. 🙁