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+--Forum: Mp3/Tag Studio Support and Bug Reports
+---Topic: Auto renumber tracks started by pderwael
Posted by: pderwael on Oct. 08 2012,12:15
Hi all
I'm sure you have already encountered this: consider a double CD (say 33 tracks in total) with all the tracks ripped in a single directory and numbered from 01 to 33.
What I like to do is store/tag my mp3s by CD (ie in 2 subdirs)
The tracks of the first CD are numbered from 01 to 16, and 17 to 33 on the second CD
I' sure you guess my question: how do you guys automatically renumber 17-33 to 01-17 ??
Intuitively, I would think of something like "subtract x from track nr"
Is there any way to do the trick ?
Thanks!
Posted by: calberga on Oct. 12 2012,17:39
Here is the brute force way (i.e., what I managed to figure out). I have created a .txt file:
01
02
03
...
Up to some large number. I then use "Tag from list" to set the track number tag, using the "Custom file selection mode". It ain't pretty, but it works.
Posted by: pderwael on Oct. 12 2012,17:54
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Here is the brute force way (i.e., what I managed to figure out). I have created a .txt file:
01
02
03
...
Up to some large number. I then use "Tag from list" to set the track number tag, using the "Custom file selection mode". It ain't pretty, but it works.
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Hi
Thanks for your suggestion (which I also have tried ! ), but as you said "It ain't pretty"...
I was hoping for a more automatic (prettier !
way to do the job
Posted by: nikkil on Nov. 04 2012,15:10
+1 on this. Would be nice to have this one as automatic.
Posted by: calberga on Nov. 05 2012,15:25
There are two programs that I use a lot. One is Mp3/Tag Studio, the other is IrfanView. It is one of my greatest wishes that the two programs would merge, in the sense of absorbing many of the features of the other.
For example (as vaguely on topic) in IrfanView the batch file renaming function allows one to specify a part of the new name by one or more # characters which take successive numerical values for each file. One can specify the initial value and the size of the increment, and if, say, three # are specified (###) the numbers start as three characters with leading zeros. (They will grow to more if the numbers are larger than 999, they do not truncate.)
With that exception, M/T S has a much more powerful renaming system, which I often use on my .jpg files! But I find myself running the file names through IrfanView to generate numbers, then re-ordering the parts of the result in M/T S.
If guess this should go into the "suggestions" forum, but one could envision something like
<#[:l[:s[:i]]]>
or
<#*[:s[:i]]>
where s gives the starting value, i the increment (both defaulting to 1) and in the first proposal l the length, or in the second the number of #s specifying as in IrfanView. Note that I'm cribbing from the notation for fixed length fields here.
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