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Oyml
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Posted: Jan. 15 2003,14:04
My apologies if this is already do-able without adding anything...

I download a lot of files from Usenet and, as we all know, many people on Usenet forums aren't always good about putting tags in their files. I use your program mainly for renaming and sorting the files I've downloaded into album directories. To be more specific, I sort them using "<Artist> - <Album><\><TrackNr> - <Artist> - <Title>.mp3"...

The problem I frequently run into is that one of the fields (Artist, Album, TrackNr, or Title) is untagged and results in the file name or directory name containing a null character. This results in a lot of files named things like " - Blah/00 - Blah - .mp3".

What I'd like to see is the ability to either filter out anything that doesn't contain *ALL* the information (I know TrackNr filtering is already planned, and I have only recently discovered the other filter options that do exist) or, better yet, automatically rejecting any files that contain null data in a field that is to be used in renaming (or track numbers = 0).

Since I usually wait a considerable time before organizing my files properly, it can be time consuming to run the rename, look at the preview list, find the files that are going to be renamed badly, move them to another directory, and repeat the process until everything looks OK...

Otherwise, I have to admit that your program is the most powerful program I have come across for manipulating MP3 files. Keep up the great work!
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Posted: Jan. 15 2003,16:48
Except for the filter-is-missing-the-tracknr-field issue, it can be done by simply selecting all fields that should not be empty in the filter, and then checking "negate", selecting "containing" and leaving the text box empty for them. This does effectively say "the field must not be empty", see what I mean?

The same technique can be used with the tracknr field when it is added to the filter.

And sure, apology accepted. ;)

Edited by Magnus Brading on Jan. 15 2003,16:49

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Oyml
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Posted: Jan. 16 2003,01:02
Yeah, this was what I was referring to in my comment of "I have only recently discovered the other filter options that do exist." It does indeed save a great deal of time. I guess I just am in wait of the empty TrackNr field filter... My suggestion was just that any files containing empty fields get dumped automatically, since no one probably wants to have files named with "00" track numbers or missing parts...

Thanks for the reply.
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