Now that your files are all tagged, you're finally ready to reorganize your files. Hit "Organize" and then select "Physically restructure" If you haven't already done so, select your music folder in the explorer window, and in the "Root Folder" box on the right hand side, select the folder that you want the Godfather to put your sorted collection into. IMPORTANT: This should not be the same folder as its currently in.

Now, in the grid above that, you'll see 2 rows, one called %A - 1 and the other simply called %A. This means that the Godfather is going to put your files in a folder along the lines of "rootfolder\first letter of artists name\artists name\track name" so, for example, for Layla by Eric Clapton, if your root folder is C:\music Layla will be moved to "C:\music\E\Eric Clapton\04-Layla.mp3". My personal preference is to also include the album name as a folder too, so to do that, right click the grid and hit "Insert Row". In the left hand box, insert %L, leave other box blank. You can also add rows for track titles (%T), genres (%G) and a lot of other unnecessary things, and for each row you insert another level of directories will be created in your newly sorted collection. Finally, if you have playlists in your music collection at the moment, you should add "*.m3u;" to the "Include other files" box. If you have album covers, you should add "*.jpg; *.jpeg;" to the box as well. Now hit scan. There should be no files in the "Missing Structure" section now. If you're confident everything's right, which you should be, hit move. If you're not so confident, hit copy. Finally, hit save and go out and have a cup of tea, because it's going to take a while. When you come back, your music collection should be very nicely sorted. But that's not all you can do with the Godfather, and we're going to take a look at a couple more interesting features.

Bug! If you're having problems where ALL your music came out as having "Missing Structure - No Tags" you've hit a bug in the Godfather. Make sure that there are no rows in the right hand grid labeled "Sub-folder details" that are completely blank. If there are, you should right-click them and hit Delete row. This should solve your problem.

The Godfather is also a very powerful tool for removing duplicate files from your computer. To do this, go to Organdie and hit Find Duplicates. Choose your music folder in the explorer window, hit scan and get yourself a cup of coffee because scanning takes a while (about 30 seconds per hundred tracks on my AMD 1800XP with a 7200RPM HD). Once its done that, you'll be presented with a huge list of sets of possible duplicates. Most of this is bullshit, because for example, if you own a Beatles album, a Beatles Anthology album and a George Harrison Best of, all containing the track "Something", Godfather will pick them all up as duplicates, and put them in a set together. The Godfather also matches by file size, so if you get 2 tracks with the same file size they'll be marked as duplicate, even if they're totally different. This is pretty rare though.

All the most likely matches, however seem to be at the bottom, so scroll to the bottom and look at the duplicates. Now work you're way back up the list, until you start running into 5 or more item sets, which are rarely actually duplicates at all. If you do find duplicates, select which one of them you want to delete and put a tick in the box beside it (remember, if you tick both of the duplicates you're marking both of them for deletion, so then you'll have no copy). When you've checked all the duplicates, hit the Delete button and the Godfather will remove them from your hard disk. Remember that this is an irreversible process so you'd want to be sure that the files you're marking are in fact duplicates.