Unknown artist / album clean up using Music Brainz-Picard

ed2345, Since your suggestion worked, I poked around and there is a apple script you can run to refresh the music data base from the music files.

https://dougscripts.com/itunes/2017/08/refresh-a-track-from-its-files-metadata/

So, I took a music sample of 500 unknown songs:

1) Ran the script to make sure they are all physically there (No files missing), 2 mins

2) Ran Brainz on the files in the finder and saved the data. The files are still in the same location and the filenames are the same.

3) Ran the script again. NB: The files were relocated to the new directory depending on the artist/album. Empty directories were removed for me. File names did not change.

4) For those songs left in the unknown artist directory (All of 4 files), Those must be done manually.

Thanks for all the help.

Thanks Ed2345, so:

1. Brainz the music files in the unknown Directory, Don't change the file name or location of the file. Just the album /artist data in the file.
2. Play each song to force the update / re-org...

I'll give one or two files a shot to test.

ed2345, That works. Brainz hit the file, once played, it moved. Now for the $40,000 question. I'm a Napster/CD-ripper/Torrent Graduate from the late 1990's. 40k song files. None of the files are protected, all Mp3, with the odd aif. There are 5000ish files in the unknown bucket(s), I'm backed up. What is to stop me from Brainz-ing the lot. But, how to mass refresh the entire library in Music instead of playing each file? Is there a magic wand?

Thanks Jimz... One worked... See above.