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-Brading Software Message Board +--Forum: Mp3/Tag Studio Suggestions +---Topic: Suggestion for Auto Rename started by Penguin Posted by: Penguin on April 27 2003,22:17 Theres a lot of information in ID3 tags, and I like to have a lot of information in my filenames as well. (My MP3 CD Player shows the filenames by default) However, the filenames can become quite lengthy when theres a lot of information in it. What I would love to see is an option to include only the first couple of letters in the Album or Artist, or, even better, the first letter of every word. Generating these strings should not be difficult but the syntax for the string buildings templates would need some radical improvements. (or maybe it could just be some checkboxes, thats fine too. :P) I just have to say you've written a great program. It made all my mp3s look nice and neat real quicklike. Keep up the great work. Posted by: Magnus Brading on April 29 2003,00:42 You can already do this in a two-step process: 1. Use the listmaker tool with e.g. the following template: ---------------------CODE SAMPLE------------------- <Filepath absolute>; <Artist>; <Title> ---------------------CODE SAMPLE------------------- 2. Use the "Tag/rename from list" tool (in rename mode), with the following template: ---------------------CODE SAMPLE------------------- <Old name AP>; <New name:2-1[| - ]><TRASH>; <New name:2-2[|.mp3]><TRASH> ---------------------CODE SAMPLE------------------- Tada! Files are now renamed like this: <first two characters of artist> - <first two characters of title>.mp3 And you can adjust it however you want to get the exact desired directory and filenames. end |