by SDJeff » Sun May 09, 2010 8:18 pm
kiwichick, like Lowlander said that solution was only for that particular file naming scheme. There is horror and beauty of tagging from file names! I have received files from x different friends who have tagged their files x different ways. Once you learn the commands it makes tagging a piece of cake.
Please post some examples of what you have and we'll post some solutions.
Some common ones -
01- AC/DC - Back In Black - Hells Bells = <Track#> - <Artist> - <Album> - <Title>
3 Days Grace - 04 - Riot = <Artist> - <Track#> - <Title>
If you only want to replace the song title from the 3 Days Grace Example use
<Skip> - <Skip> - <Title>
In my first post, the original poster wanted the track number to be two digits "01, 02, ...etc" instead of 1, 2, 3 .... On some programs used to burn cds or spreadsheets for cataloging you need the extra place holding digit (ex "01") to keep things in order. When you add ":2" to a command it will limit the results to the first two characters. It is not limited to 2, you can use any number.
When I auto organize my files, I use <Album Artist:1>/<Album Artist>/<Year> - <Title>/<Artist> - <Title>
Which gives me:
A/AC-DC/1980 - Back In Black/AC-DC - Hells Bells
kiwichick, like Lowlander said that solution was only for that particular file naming scheme. There is horror and beauty of tagging from file names! I have received files from x different friends who have tagged their files x different ways. Once you learn the commands it makes tagging a piece of cake.
Please post some examples of what you have and we'll post some solutions.
Some common ones -
01- AC/DC - Back In Black - Hells Bells = <Track#> - <Artist> - <Album> - <Title>
3 Days Grace - 04 - Riot = <Artist> - <Track#> - <Title>
If you only want to replace the song title from the 3 Days Grace Example use
<Skip> - <Skip> - <Title>
In my first post, the original poster wanted the track number to be two digits "01, 02, ...etc" instead of 1, 2, 3 .... On some programs used to burn cds or spreadsheets for cataloging you need the extra place holding digit (ex "01") to keep things in order. When you add ":2" to a command it will limit the results to the first two characters. It is not limited to 2, you can use any number.
When I auto organize my files, I use <Album Artist:1>/<Album Artist>/<Year> - <Title>/<Artist> - <Title>
Which gives me:
A/AC-DC/1980 - Back In Black/AC-DC - Hells Bells