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aspenbordr
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Posted: April 20 2003,04:04
If I wanted to create folders A-Z with the corresponding artists (Aerosmith, Alliah, etc. in A,…) I think (tell me if there is a better way to do this) that I would have to go to Direct Rename Files, and put



Expected Name Format:

H<Artist>.mp3



Output Name Format:

H<\>H<Artist>.mp3

Is this correct?


This would create the directories. However, obviously this would take a while, because I would have to repeat for each letter of the alphabet. On the other hand, if I could use a single letter wildcard (like the ? in windows), I could do:



Expected Name Format:

?<Artist>.mp3



Output Name Format:

?<\>?<Artist>.mp3



And it would make the process much quicker and easily. I hope you get what I’m trying to say from this example. If there is another way, please let me know.
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Magnus Brading
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Posted: April 20 2003,15:17
Yes, there is a way to do this in a single sweep:


1.
Go to the Direct Rename tool.


2.
Use the following (advanced mode) templates:

Expected format:
Code Sample
<Title:1><Artist>.mp3


Output format:
Code Sample
<Title><\><Title><Artist>.mp3



3.
Press the execute button.

Bam, done. :)


The reason that I chose to use the title field to store the initial letter in is that the custom fields normally used as wildcards do not support fixed length mode right now (this in turn is mostly not to make people even more confused than necessary :)). The names of the fields in the direct rename tool do really just have a mnenomic function in any case, since they are not related to tag fields, but only placeholders for arbitrary strings.

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WaxWorm
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Posted: Aug. 03 2003,11:32
Hm, I think I didn't get that or it's not exactly, what I am looking for at the moment, so I'll ask my question here ;)

I want to organize my mp3's the following way:

Code Sample
C:\mp3\<Genre>\<Artists First Letter>\<Artist>\(<Year>) <Album>\<Track> - <Artist> - <Title>.mp3


and yet I didn't find out, how to get the "Artists First Letter" into that template, except creating a template for every letter in the alphabet, which would not really result in a single sweep ;)

Any easier way?

Thx in advance...
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WaxWorm
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Posted: Aug. 03 2003,12:40
Ok, I now found out, how to do it with the "direct rename" function, but is there any way, to do it directly from the tag (with the "auto rename from tag" function)?
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Posted: Aug. 03 2003,13:10
No, sorry, currently this is not possible, so you will have to use two sweeps, just like you say, first an auto rename sweep and then a direct rename sweep.

With the update I'm currently working on you will be able to do this (and practically everything else) in one sweep though, so stay tuned... :)

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WaxWorm
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Posted: Aug. 03 2003,13:13
Now this sounds good :)

I have been using this programm for maybe about an hour now and i must say: You did a great job...it's exactly what i was looking for (well at least almost exactly *g*) I am lloking forward to the next version then...maybe it will be just perfect for my wishes ;)
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