Go to your music folder in windows explorer for a minute and look at your music files. How are they named? Are they mostly named along the lines of "artist - title" or "track number - title"? For example, do you see "Eric Clapton - Layla" or "02 - Layla" or "02 - Layla[Eric Clapton]"?

Whatever you see, the next step is to separate the file names so you can tag them. Lets test on a small number of files. If you have a folder containing an single album of music, choose it, if not, put some similarly named files into a separate folder and select it in the Godfather's explorer window. Look at these files, and you'll see that they're made up of details in the file name. For example, the file could be called "02 - Eric Clapton - Layla", which breaks down as "Tracknumber - artist - title". Or it could be called "track 02" which is just breaks down as the word "track" followed by the track number. Now look at the name of the folder its in, is that the name of the artist, or the album? And how about the folder that's in? Is that the name of the artist, or the genre? Or it could just be a folder called "music". Either way, you can see that your head is breaking the details given in the file name into some sort of logic. To be able to correctly organdie your music, the Godfather needs to be able to take 2 details from the file name, that would be the artist and the album name. If these don't exist in the file name, they may already exist in the tags. If neither of them exists, you have 2 choices, you can either delete the file altogether, or manually tag it, which we'll get to later.

The next step is to tell the Godfather what information is where in the file name and structure. Look at the file name again, how is the filename broken up? Is it just dashes separating the information, or is it other characters also? If it's just dashes, like "artist - title" then you're in luck, because Godfather is set up to deal with this by default. If it's separated along the lines of "title(artist)" you have a little more work to do. They symbols separating the information are called separators(funnily enough) and you need to tell the Godfather about them. Click on "parameters" in the filter tools panel (above the explorer window) and go to the options tab in the new window that opens. Right click the grid under "Use Separators" and select "Insert Row". Now click on the new blank row that's just been created and insert the separators used (in the second example above, you would need to insert both "(" and ")" as separators. While you're here, you should probably also tick the "Treat Consecutive Separators As One" box, and untick the boxed for any separators you're not using, such as the "-" separator that's used by default.

Now that's done, go back to the main window, and figure out how to get as much information as possible from the structure of your files.

The Godfather calls the information in-between the separatorstokens, and with any luck you can get enough informations from the file tags to fill in the 3 tags that are critical to sorting, the artist, the album title and the track title. Any other information you can get (track number, the genre, etc.) is a bonus. The Godfather will accept a wide variety of tokens from the file location and name. For example, I have a copy of Layla by Eric Clapton (arguably one of the best songs every written but that's not the point). It's on my hard disk, at