Magnus Brading
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Posted: Aug. 07 2002,00:47 |
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I'm glad you like the program Randy.
As you might know, my main philosophy for designing programs like this is to make them as generic, clean and powerful as possible. A consequence of this is that not every specific feature gets an own button in the interface (since this would make it too messy to be usable). Instead, for the most specific features you might have to click the mouse a few times more, but in exchange you get the potential to perform thousands of different more functions, the most common ones being very quick and easy.
This is why I haven't made your suggested feature, although a good one, into a specific function in the interface. This does not mean that it cannot be done, and here I will tell you how to do it:
First you make a small text file containing numbers, increasing by one for each row, like this:
Then you use the "Tag/rename from list" tool, load this list into it, and set it to tag with the following very simple template:
Now each file will be tagged the way you describe, sorted alphabetically. You can also choose to tag the files sorted by file date instead, by setting this up in the extended settings for the "Tag/rename from list" tool (this can be good if the files don't have names that will sort correctly alphabetically, but they were still encoded in the correct order).
If you want to begin from any other number than 1, you can either simply use the "parse trigger" option in the extended settings for the "Tag/rename from list" tool, or even remove the first lines in the list up to the number you want.
It might sound a bit messy when described like this, but it is actually very easy when you try it. And the above mentioned philosophy is what makes Mp3/Tag studio so clean and powerful in the end, so I hope you understand my point of view. I might include this feature in a more explicit way if I can just come up with a clean way of fitting it into the program interface of a suitable tool.
I include with this post a ready-made list file for you, ranging from 1 to 99, that can be used for this purpose, so you don't even have to put it together yourself. :-)
PS.
I just noticed that the alphabetical sorting for the "Tag/rename from list" tool in case-sensitive. This is a mistake, and I have now changed it to be case-insensitive, hence it will be like that from the next released update of Mp3/Tag Studio. Until then you can use the custom file selection mode to make it sorted alphabetically in a case-insensitive way, overriding the original sorting.
PS2.
If you want to sort the files completely manually before auto-tagging them with increasing track-numbers like this, you can use the custom file selection mode, and then sort the files any way you like by selecting them in the custom file selection box and move them up and down by pressing ctrl-up and ctrl-down (I just noticed that I forgot to mention this feature in the help file, it will be in the next update). Files will always be processed in the order they appear in the custom file selection box.
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