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Flatten your iTunes folder keeping artist names in the filename with Ruby: change /Volumes/Backup/iTunes to whatever destination folder you want
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ruby -e 'require "fileutils";Dir.glob("./**/*").reject { |d| File.directory?( d ) }.map { |f| [f, "/Volumes/Backup/iTunes/#{File.dirname(f).gsub(/([^\.])\//, "#{$1}-")}-#{File.basename(f)}"] }.map { |f| FileUtils.cp(f[0], f[1], verbose: true) }'
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To run it:

cd ~/Music/iTunes/iTunes\ Media/Music
ruby -e 'require "fileutils";Dir.glob("./**/*").reject { |d| File.directory?( d )  }.map { |f| [f, "/Volumes/Backup/iTunes/#{File.dirname(f).gsub(/([^\.])\//, "#{$1}-")}-#{File.basename(f)}"] }.map { |f| FileUtils.cp(f[0], f[1], verbose: true) }'

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