Transferring Music from Clementine to a Folder

[Music101]

Hello there, new to Clementine and still figuring it out, but so far, I'm loving it. I also just purchased a new Macbook pro, which Clementine is currently running on. Therefore I'm still learning both the software and the OS. Anyway, I just copied all of the music from my 128gb micro sd card into Clementine, I've been editing the tags a bit, playing around with it, good stuff. But my question is, How do I then put the newly tagged music in Clementine into a new folder directly onto my Mac? Is there a shortcut I'm missing? Clicking and dragging doesn't seem to work. I'd just like to know that my music is in a folder directly on my hard drive, as well as on Clementine. Is this making any sense? I don't quite know what I'm doing. Any help/directions would be greatly appreciated. Please and thank you. 

[Daniël Cloete]

Clementine is the closest I have found on Mac for my music player requirements... basically, I can more or less do what I was able to do with MusicBee back in my Windows days.

Anyway, your music is not copied into Clementine, it is still being referenced to the micro sd card and all the tag changes you made will be reflected on there.  All you need to do is copy the contents of the micro sd card to your folder of choice on your Mac and then you can link to that in Clementine.

If you ever want to copy or move a file(s) to a different folder, select and right-click on it while it is playing in a playlist and then you can use either the "copy to library..." or "move to library..." options.  Unfortunately that has stopped working for me on my Mac for at least half a year because it doesn't give me an option anymore to select my destination folder.

On a related note, my media buttons stopped working with the newest versions.  The last version where the media buttons are still working is this one and that is the one I'm still using.  I try new versions from time-time to see if either the copy/move to library function or the media buttons start working again but no luck so far ;-)   I would be keen to know if they work for you.

One last thing I can mention in terms of how I find working with Clementine the easiest is not to make use of its own library function but rather to create a playlist and then use the "Playlist" - "add folder" command to add my music folder containing everything.  The reason why I do that is that I have found the library does not add, for some or other reason, all my music.  I also find it easier to use the search bar to look at e.g. all the songs from a band.  You can use search terms such as e.g. "artist:U2" in the search bar to only search for the term u2 in the artist column rather than in all the columns.

Clementine is not perfect, but it is much better than anything else for my needs on Mac.  Hope you come right!   

[Garthhh]

I have 50000 files and add new ones from time to time
the clementine tag editor, works fine outside of your library, click the files tab next to the left pane so you are able to check tags, before adding to your library
editing large numbers of tags will sometimes make whatever you are listening to buffer & make clementine seem unresponsive, be patient

a normal structure for a music library
a folder named music containing folders for each artist containing folders for each album, music>artist>album>song
you can do it other ways genre>artist>album
set clementine to display the same clicking wrench icon right of search box: wrench>Group By>Artist>Year>Album [or whatever sort you prefer]

to add a new albums or songs for an existing artist can just moved or copied to it's proper location with your favorite file browser
clementine will show the new content without doing anything