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Translating filename into tags

Posted: Thu Feb 03, 2011 4:09 am
by kathol
I've got tons of MP3s that need ID3 tags to be filled up properly and can only be done automatically by referencing them through their filenames.

The filename format is: Track# - Title - Artist (e.g. '01 - Hero - When I Came Home.mp3')
Default value of Artist field is 'Various Artist' while Field is 'Track 01 (so and and forth).

When I assigned the %F3 in the Artist field & %F2 in the Title & hit apply, The Artist field copies the entire tokens (including the title) without the track # while Title remains the same. I tried to jumble the parameters to get the proper placement but I got no luck. Probably this is a bug.

It was working since the 0.70 version which I installed as a temporary solution.

Hope you can help me. Thank you so much.  ;D

Re: Translating filename into tags

Posted: Thu Feb 03, 2011 8:25 am
by hopalongrock
You say:
kathol wrote:The filename format is: Track# - Title - Artist (e.g. '01 - Hero - When I Came Home.mp3')
What is the title ? Hero or When I Came Home ? Maybe you could use Track# - Artist - Title
Be sure to select "Formatting" -> "Variables"  -> "Use separators", specify the correct hyphen, (en)dash, (em) dash, ... etc character in the separator, for example " - " (you can specify more separator string, without quotes), and don't select "Use Mask".

Re: Translating filename into tags

Posted: Sat Feb 26, 2011 1:24 pm
by kathol
its working now. Thanks!  ;D ;D ;D