How to get a tree of your music folder

Release Sonar only needs the names of your music folders. If your music is on the same computer, the easiest way is the Pick my music folder button. If it lives on a NAS, a server or another machine, list it there and paste the result. Any of these formats works.

Windows

Open Command Prompt (press Win, type cmd) and run, changing the path to your music folder:

tree "D:\Music" /F /A > "%USERPROFILE%\Desktop\music.txt"

Then upload music.txt on the Import page. Without /F you get folders only, which is enough too.

In PowerShell, a plain list of folders also works:

Get-ChildItem "D:\Music" -Recurse -Directory | ForEach-Object FullName > music.txt

macOS

Open Terminal. macOS has no tree by default, but find works out of the box:

cd ~/Music
find . -type d | pbcopy

That copies the folder list to the clipboard: paste it on the Import page. With Homebrew you can also use brew install tree and tree ~/Music | pbcopy.

Linux

tree ~/Music > music.txt
# or, without tree installed:
find ~/Music -type d > music.txt

NAS and servers (Synology, QNAP, Unraid, Raspberry Pi…)

Connect by SSH and run find on the music share, then copy the file to your computer:

find /volume1/music -type d > /volume1/music/music.txt

Folders like @eaDir, .AppleDouble or #recycle are ignored automatically.

Plex, Jellyfin, Navidrome, Apple Music…

If you can't list folders, use Type artists on the Import page and paste one artist per line (for example, the artist list exported from your player).

What Release Sonar understands

• Artist/Album/tracks, including 1997 - Album, Album (1997) and Album [1997].
• Genre/Artist/Album and letter folders like R/Radiohead.
• Artist - Album (Year) folders and loose Artist - Title.mp3 files.
• CD1/Disc 2 folders, which are merged into their album.
• Various Artists, Compilations and Soundtracks, which are skipped.

Before importing you see what was found and can change how the library is organised if it guessed wrong.