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+--Forum: Mp3/Tag Studio Suggestions
+---Topic: A missing feature? Nah, it can't be... started by noddy
Posted by: noddy on May 10 2005,02:21
Magnus,
Just discovered something I CAN'T do with MP3TS!!
You must be slipping in your old age!
Of course, I'm going to look pretty silly if you come back and say "Oh yeah, you can do that THIS way..."
Anyway, I have a bunch of MP3's in a folder. Some of them are CBR and some of them are VBR. What I want to do is an advanced rename (with a new path\old filename), filtering so that only VBR files get moved to the new folder. However, it seems the filter tool doesn't have an option for CBR/VBR/ABR. Am I missing something?
As always, bloody brilliant piece of software.
Posted by: Magnus Brading on May 16 2005,17:00
Hehe, you are correct, the filter does not have such a feature yet. This is in large part because determining if a file is VBR or not (i.e. not trusting only the presence of a VBR header) can be a relatively time consuming analysis, but maybe I'll include it after all in a future version.
But as always, there is at least one way to work around it.
You could for example temporarily store the bitrate of the song in a tag field, and then filter on this... 
Posted by: noddy on May 16 2005,22:57
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You could for example temporarily store the bitrate of the song in a tag field, and then filter on this...
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Mmmmmm, ok. I'm guessing that the bitrate data will include the text string 'VBR', and THAT is what you would then filter?
Sneaky!
I'll give it a whirl.
Posted by: Magnus Brading on May 17 2005,10:46
Yes, that's correct, it will include the text VBR. Make sure that the VBR files have correct VBR headers first though (which can be done automatically with the VBR repair tool).
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