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Simon
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Posted: Mar. 24 2004,03:06
Magnus, the Studio has been the saviour to my MP3 collection. Thanks for such a great program.

My simple (?) request is to be able to search and replace field across multiple files, directories and tags.

cheers

Simon
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Posted: Mar. 24 2004,13:50
This can be done is several ways already, e.g. by combining the filter and the "Mass set tags/flags" tool, or by combining the "Substring replacements" feature of the "Case fix and replace" utility with the "Direct tag manipulation" tool.

I'm glad you like the program. :)

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Posted: Mar. 31 2004,22:30
Magnus, hi again (i'm registered now). Cheers for the reply; i'm still having some trouble though: i'm currently trying to edit the album tags in a bunch of folders, which are currently set to <artist - album> (i got them from a mate who has named them this way for some strange reason. why put the artist in the album tag as well? that's what the artist tag's for! anyway...).
So yeah, i want to change them all from <artist - album> to <album>. After your suggestion i've been trying the substring replacements to try and delete everything before the break ( - ) using the boolean " - §", only i now realise that would only work for whole strings ending in " - ", which mine aren't. Can you think of a way to get the filter to pick these out, ideally something equating to a find&replace on the album tag, removing everything before & including the break?
Thanks in advance.
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My current thought (if nothing else works) would be to:
1. autorename from tags to format <album> - <title> which, with my dodgy album tags, will look like <artist> - <album> - <title>
2. autotag from filenames with expected format <artist> - <album> - <title>
3. which would work but would be time consuming. unless i used filters. however, trying to setup a filter for part 1., i put in album > containing:
-
OR
" - "
but neither found any files. tried the same in album>advanced>containing, but it still didn't find anything. any idea why? each file does have " - " in the album tag.
Assuming i can get this part to work, can i set up a filter to find files named in <artist> - <album> - <title> format?
Cheers Magnus, your help always much appreciated.

Simon

Edited by dez93_2000 on Mar. 31 2004,22:35
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Posted: Mar. 31 2004,23:14
About the filter, are you sure that you did not mistakenly leave any other filter settings on? I just tried to filter for files containing "-" in the album field, and it worked perfectly?

Also, another method of doing it would be to create a list of the format (using that filter):

<Filepath absolute> ; <Album> ; <Title>

And then import it to the tags with the following template (from the "Tag/rename from list" tool):

<Target file AP> ; <Artist> - <Album> ; <Title>

Then you don't have to modify the filenames inbetween.


Btw, thanks for registering! :)

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