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Special Masstagging

Ok I am having one small problem and I am sure many here with more knowledge than I can solve easily enough.  My music is set up as genre\artist\year - album (LE, Remaster, etc.) [codec]\xx. title.  Anyhow, when doing masstaagging either in frontah or foobar my string looks like this to write tag based on file name %genre%\%artist%\%year% - %album% (%comment%) [%codec%]\%track% - %title%.  My problem is that not all music has a comment (xxxx).  When it doesn't it screws up the tags.  Can I get either program to add the tag only if a value is present and ignore otherwise and move on to the next?  I know it is probably easy, but I am not a programmer and have no clue.

Thanks

Special Masstagging

Reply #1 –
I am no expert either, but I think you can use an IF to get the desired results.

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Reply #3 –
But how do I have it do an if statement so it only includes a field if it exists instead of screwing up tags.  If I don't have a (XXXX) present instead of ignoring it, it puts stuff in other tags that it is not supposed to.


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In foobar2000:

[%comment%]

'['   %__codec%   ']'

Notice how I had to put [brackets] in between 'single quotes' if I wanted to display brackets.
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Reply #4 –
edit: misunderstood the question...

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Reply #5 –
Oops. Silly me. I had been thinking you wanted to rename your files, instead of guessing values from filenames.

0. Assuming your files do have [codec] info, genre\artist\year - album (LE, Remaster, etc.) [codec]\xx. title

1. Sort your playlist according to
$strstr($lower($directory(%_path%)),$lower(%__codec%))

Now your files should be divided into files that don't have the codec in the path, and files that do.

It will help if you stick $strstr($lower($directory(%_path%)),$lower(%__codec%))
in your playlist string.

2. Select the bottom files that do have the codec in the path, and guess values from filenames using this string.

%genre%\%artist%\%year% - %album% (%comment%) %%\%tracknumber%. %title%

Notice how I used %% to discard values.

3. Select the top files that don't have the codec mentioned, and guess values from filenames using this other string.

%genre%\%artist%\%year% - %album% (%comment%)\%tracknumber%. %title%