I am new to MusicBrainz Picard and am trying to use it to write the correct album directory name and song file names of files ripped from a CD that is unrecognized by Asunder (which is using gnudb.gnudb.org). The song file names are renamed correctly, but the album directory name is not.
The directory name should be able to be renamed too, right? If so, what am I doing wrong, how can I get that to work?
Also, how can I get the album image saved with the audio files?
After you use 'Lookup' to find the album in the database:
you can inspect the items in the Right-hand section and see that they have the correct metadata (Track titles AND Album title).
Pull down the "Options" menu to make sure that both 'Rename Files' and 'Move Files' are enabled.
File Naming. You should see that Move Files When Saving and Rename Files When Saving are turned ON.
Edit file renaming script... to check the file renaming pattern, or select 'Preset 1'. Make sure your file renaming pattern (script) looks something like%album%/%tracknumber%-%title%
with a Slash (/) character to cause a subfolder to be created. Your operating system might need a backslash (\) character instead.
There are much better and fancier renaming patterns than the above example, like the "Preset 1" pattern below. You can see it uses the slash character as a directory separator:
$if2(%albumartist%,%artist%)/
$if(%albumartist%,%album%/,)
$if($gt(%totaldiscs%,1),$if($gt(%totaldiscs%,9),$num(%discnumber%,2),%discnumber%)-,)$if($and(%albumartist%,%tracknumber%),$num(%tracknumber%,2) ,)$if(%_multiartist%,%artist% - ,)%title%
Screenshots and command names are taken from MusicBrainz Picard 2.8/2.9, but other versions should be similar.
