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-Brading Software Message Board +--Forum: Mp3/Tag Studio Support and Bug Reports +---Topic: Optional things in the file name started by chuckchuck Posted by: chuckchuck on April 15 2004,23:25 Hey there My .mp3s are named as such: ACDC - Big Balls.mp3 and .. ACDC (Who made Who) - whatever.mp3 If you notice, I put the album name in ()'s if I have the album, if it is just an individual song, I don't have the ()'s. So I was using this string: <Artist> (<Album>) - <Title>.mp3 To use the filename to make the i3d tags. But .. If the filename doesn't have the ()'s in it, it seems that the program just puts the entire thing of ACDC - Big Balls into the Artist part of the tag, leaving the title part blank. Is there a way to make the () be optional? For instance, if it sees the () it will pull the album, but if it does not encounter the (), it won't "skip over" the rest of the string? To me, it seems that it should encounter the hyphen and still pull the title. Posted by: Magnus Brading on April 15 2004,23:49 Making optional parts of templates would just be too messy. Instead, I would use the filter to separate files with different formats, and then process them in different sweeps. Posted by: chuckchuck on April 16 2004,00:25 Interesting.. So I can use the filter to skip files with a ( in it ? Posted by: Magnus Brading on April 16 2004,00:43 Sure, just look at the "File name" tab of the filter utility, and maybe read a little about it in the help file if necessary. Posted by: chuckchuck on April 16 2004,01:15 Hey Magnus First, let me thank you for your help. I got it to work, like you said. I put a single ( in the filter textbox, and had it negate the filter. However, at first I was having problems because I had the "equals to" radio button selected. I looked in the help, and I saw you can do the "contains" part. But .. I didn't see the contains radio button. But, I could see a small thing just to the left of the textbox. It appears the textbox renders on top of the "contains" radio button. Anyways :-) I got it working, thanks to your help. Posted by: Magnus Brading on April 16 2004,14:24 The GUI layout problem is most likely related to the issues discussed in e.g. < this > and < this > thread, please check them out. end |