How to reunite split-up album

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Hello,

I had a compilation album which, when I imported, got split into different directories based on the artist for each individual track. I tried to fix this by adding an albumartist tag:

beet modify -a Music of New Mexico albumartist="Various Artists"

Rather than moving the files to a single directory, it created a number of duplicate albums within the Various Artists directory, like so:

Library/Various Artists/Music of New Mexico_ Native American Traditions/112 The Handshake.flac
Library/Various Artists/Music of New Mexico_ Native American Traditions [2687]/113 Moccasin Game Song.flac
Library/Various Artists/Music of New Mexico_ Native American Traditions [2811]/102 Captive Dance Song.flac

etc.

What is the proper way to reunite an album which was split up at import?

Thanks!

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Hello! The usual way to do this is to import all the files again as one album this time. The --flat flag to the beet import command can help making doing that more convenient.

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Thanks for the help!