-Brading Software Message Board
+--Forum: Mp3/Tag Studio Support and Bug Reports
+---Topic: target file selection started by jerkstore
Posted by: jerkstore on June 07 2006,19:53
i just wanted to rename all my mp3 files to begin filenames with track numbers so my mp3 cd player will play the songs in the intended order. after downloading this program today, i found that i had gotten much more than i had bargained for (which is a good thing), and the program did this job more quickly and easily than i imagined possible. i'm very glad i found this program, as i think it's a gem that i'll be able to apply to many future mass file-altering tasks that i would never want to try to do manually. great piece of work indeed!
there's only one thing stopping me from being able to make full use of the program. my mp3 file system organization is structured as mp3 files grouped into album folders which are grouped into artist folders which are all in a general music folder (hope that makes sense). so when i want to quickly run a task over mp3 files by every artist, i must set my working dir to my general music folder and enable include subdirs. my question is whether there is an easy way to precisely control which subdirectory mp3 files are processed and which ones are skipped over; i noticed the custom file selection mode automatically disables the include subdirs option (specifically, using direct rename files). i find this behavior very limiting and frustrating since i would intuitively try to control which files are processed by having every file under the general music folder tree show up in the custom file selection list when include subdirs is enabled. not sure if there is some kind of conflict between these two functions that i don't see, but i'd like to know if there is any way to control exactly which subdirectory files are processed when include subdirs is enabled. sorry if this question's been posed already or if it's a dumb question, but i haven't had much time to look over the previous posts or learn the plethora of features in the program. also, sorry this is so long
thanks kindly
Posted by: Magnus Brading on June 08 2006,09:09
You can use the Mp3/Tag Studio shell extension for this (right click on files in Windows Explorer, and see the Mp3/Tag Studio submenu).
PS.
Like your name ("The ocean called, and said they were running out of shrimp").
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