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masstagger - problem w/ renaming files

hi,

i am sorry if i did not find the right forum for this, please move this if not appropriate here.

my problem: i want to rename quite a few files with the help of the mass tagger.  so far it is working, though these tracks are a bit tricky. they have an id3v2 only and the value for tracknumber is 1/11 or 2/11 etc.  i know id3v2 is evil, but that is just the way it is.
trying to rename the file results in masstagger attempting to put a "/" into the filename, which certainly is not possible. i do not really want to rename all these 50+ files manually, but i do not have an idea. i could certainly rename that field, but obviously i would like to keep the tracklisting active & intact. i do not know how to remove only the /11 (and according to that) which would already solve the problem.

any ideas?

i hope this question is ok, i did try to find it in the rest of the forum but did not see an answer.

hope you can help me with this,

across.the.universe

masstagger - problem w/ renaming files

Reply #1 –
Are you saying the masstagger tried to put / into the filename anyway?

Either way, you can use $replace to substitute it -e.g. I use
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$replace(%artist% - %title%,",'',*,.,?,,/,-)


Which replaces a " with two 's, a * with a dot, removes ?s, and now replaces / with - as an example here.
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masstagger - problem w/ renaming files

Reply #2 –
hi

thanks a lot, that helped! it is working flawless now!

across.the.universe

masstagger - problem w/ renaming files

Reply #3 –
sorry, one more question.

the tracknumbers are named "1/14" or "12/14" etc.
now when i - thanks to your help - rename them everything works out fine except that the files have to be sorted by tracknumbers & i would need "01 - artist - title" as usual. this is some more difficult - if possible at all. do you have an idea how to achieve that?

aside - i already love the retagger!!! ;-)

across.the.universe

masstagger - problem w/ renaming files

Reply #4 –
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sorry, one more question.

the tracknumbers are named "1/14" or "12/14" etc.
now when i - thanks to your help - rename them everything works out fine except that the files have to be sorted by tracknumbers & i would need "01 - artist - title" as usual. this is some more difficult - if possible at all. do you have an idea how to achieve that?

aside - i already love the retagger!!! ;-)

across.the.universe

Try
$if($strchr(%tracknumber%,/),$num($cut(%tracknumber%,$sub($strchr(%tracknumber%,/),1)),2),%tracknumber%)

if you mean you dont want the second part of the tracknumber.

It wil return 01 for 1/15.

However, if Tracknumber isnt present it will return 00, so use:

$if(%tracknumber%,$if($strchr(%tracknumber%,/),$num($cut(%tracknumber%,$sub($strchr(%tracknumber%,/),1)),2),%tracknumber%),)

or, if you have files tagged with 00 tracknumber:

$ifgreater(%tracknumber%,00,$if($strchr(%tracknumber%,/),$num($cut(%tracknumber%,$sub($strchr(%tracknumber%,/),1)),2),%tracknumber%),)

edit: Curious George: Hmm.. I guess that's simpler 

If you dont want the 00, though, you will still need checks to remove them, but if your sorting I guess you would want them.
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masstagger - problem w/ renaming files

Reply #5 –
I think what you really want is just: $num(%tracknumber%,2)

That'll turn "1" into "01", turn "01/10" into "01", and leave "01" as "01".

edit: musicmusic beat me to it, but I think what he's doing is probably more complicated than you want or need.

masstagger - problem w/ renaming files

Reply #6 –
hi,

this is the commandline i needed: $if($strchr(%tracknumber%,/),$num($cut(%tracknumber%,$sub($strchr(%tracknumber%,/),1)),2),%tracknumber%) %artist% - %title%

thanks a lot you two are really nice & helped me out! i am impressed once again what is possible if you know how to do it *grin*  ... i will dive deeper into this syntax ... it is fun *hehe*

really, thank you - you saved me from a lot of work & manual editing.

cu later,

across.the.universe

masstagger - problem w/ renaming files

Reply #7 –
You can also use the masstagger feature "format value from other fields" to eliminate that from your tags. Format $num(%tracknumber%,1) into tracknumber.