Copy artist from title "artist-title" to artist?

Piko · Post by **Piko** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 11:13 am

all my various artists are titled e.g.

muse - starlight
red hot chili peppers - under the bridge

and so on with their artist and album artist as "various artists" I am looking for a script to keep the title as it, but copy the "muse" and "red hot chili peppers" and place it as "muse" or "red hot chili peppers" in the artist column.... anyone help me????? please =)

Nebbin · Post by **Nebbin** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 11:27 am

If your files are actually named is such a fashion, then you can use Auto-Tag from Filename (Alt-T) and enter a file mask such as:

<skip>/<artist> - <title>

Otherwise there is a script called "Split Artist Title" which is designed for this. I think it is included with the default MM installation, but if not you should be able to search on these forums for it.

Piko · Post by **Piko** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 11:38 am

I wish!! thats what tagging is for =P hehe, well about 75% of them would work like that, but the other 25% either have numbers in front, or not artist name etc, so looking at near 750 file to change... no thanks =P, yes, makes job a lot quicker, but i hope there is easier way!

Nebbin · Post by **Nebbin** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 11:45 am

If you have numbers in front, are you able to use a mask like the following?

<track#> <artist> - <title>

OR

If the current tags are correct in content, just not in placement, then you can auto-organise the files so that the filenames are now consistent and then you can use the "auto-tag from filename" option. (Yeah, yeah... I know it's roundabout

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Is there a reason the "Split artist title" script won't help?

Piko · Post by **Piko** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 10:32 pm

aah gee, i was tired this morning when i looked at that, yer split artist title sounds like its what i'm after, alas, i can't seem to find it, but i'll keep looking

Nebbin · Post by **Nebbin** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 11:56 pm

Sorry... SplitArtistTitle isn't a default script like I initially thought, but was written by Trixmoto (he's written so many it's hard to keep track!

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Split Artist Title

You'll find a lot of useful scripts at Trixmoto's Website.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sat Dec 09, 2006 1:44 am

yerp! i found it on his webpage thanks =) was exactly what i was looking for, though sad to say goodbye to my old formatting that too me so many man hours =P but with magic node i can manage my clutter in a more efficient fashion, so time had come to change =) thanks for your help!! i knew there had to be a script to do it somewhere =P

Piko · Post by **Piko** » Sat Dec 09, 2006 1:48 am

Anonymous wrote:yerp! i found it on his webpage thanks =) was exactly what i was looking for, though sad to say goodbye to my old formatting that took me so many man hours =P but with magic node i can manage my clutter in a more efficient fashion, so time had come to change =) thanks for your help!! i knew there had to be a script to do it somewhere =P

aaaah logged in now, thats better =)