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Masstagger guessing

I use the naming scheme
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%artist%  %tracknumber% - %title%

and I'm having trouble getting the mass tagger to correctly guess tag fields from filename.  If the artist name has a space in it (eg. Fear Factory) then ARTIST is set to Fear and track number to Factory.

Given that there are 2 spaces between artist & tracknumber, is there any way to correctly guess the tags from my filenames?  Am I missing a relavent section in the wiki, I haven't had much luck finding info beyond Winamp's advanced title help
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Masstagger guessing

Reply #1 –
Interesting. The extra space throws a wrench into masstagger.

After some playing around, I found this work-around:

1) Do a "Guess values from filename" with %title%
2) Do a "Format value from other other fields" with  %title% as the Destination and $replace(%title%,'  ',' - ') as the Formatting Pattern
3) Do a "Guess value from other fields" with %title% as the Source and %artist% - %tracknumber% - %title% as the Guessing Pattern

In other words, first dump the filename into Title, replace the double space with ' - ', then format the fields from Title. You can set up a script to do those three steps for each song, so it isn't a lot of extra work.
That's so plausible, I can't believe it.

Masstagger guessing

Reply #2 –
Thankyou for the explanation, with a bit of playing around the syntax is all making sense now  Audioscrobbler will no doubt be pleased, I will no longer be messing up their system with my 'artist = autechre 02' untagged files
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Masstagger guessing

Reply #3 –
Glad I could help. ;-)

I hear ya. Audioscrobbler has forced me to examine all of my tags. I have a lot of bootleg concerts, and I've found countless errors and inconsistencies in the song titles.
That's so plausible, I can't believe it.