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calberga
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Posted: April 25 2008,15:52

It's been too quite here -- is anyone still around???

I've been using mp3/tag studio in renaming a lot of .jpg files, using the suggestions in the replies to my earlier post.  But now I need to do a rename without having and <Old name> token in the pattern.

I am using

<TRASH> <New name-1[|.jpg]>

and filtering on a file extension of .jpg but none of the files are changed.

It works correctly with both old and new names specified.  Am I missing something?  Or is this Just The Way Things Are?
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Posted: April 25 2008,23:58

Of course I'm still around. :)

Hmm, I wonder if it has something to do with the files not having an mp3 extension... Could you please give me an example with some exact filenames?

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Posted: April 26 2008,01:07

Sure, iInitially, the file names were:

01-01-01.jpg
01-01-02.jpg
etc.

and the list was:

01-01-01 01 01 [red #] 1953-04 New York Skyline, Staten Island Ferry, April 1953
01-01-02 02 02 [red #] 1953-04 Ferries, 4-53
01-01-03 03 11 [red #] 1953-04 Seagate Beach, 4-53
01-01-04 04 12 [red #] 1953-04 Jo, Coney Island, 4-53
01-01-05 05 14 [red #] 1953-04 Parachute Jump, Coney Island, 4-53
01-08-03 06 03 [red #] 1953-04 Ann 1½ yrs, April - 53

I used your suggestion:

<Old name-1[|.jpg]> <New name-1[|.jpg]>

to rename them from the initial names to

01 [red #] 1953-04 New York Skyline, Staten Island Ferry, April 1953.jpg
02 02 [red #] 1953-04 Ferries, 4-53.jpg
03 11 [red #] 1953-04 Seagate Beach, 4-53.jpg
04 12 [red #] 1953-04 Jo, Coney Island, 4-53.jpg
05 14 [red #] 1953-04 Parachute Jump, Coney Island, 4-53.jpg
06 03 [red #] 1953-04 Ann 1½ yrs, April - 53.jpg

I then decided to rework the names and produced the list:

01-01-01 01 1953-04 New York Skyline, Staten Island Ferry
01-01-02 02 1953-04 Ferries
01-01-03 03 1953-04 Seagate Beach
01-01-04 04 1953-04 Jo, Coney Island
01-01-05 05 1953-04 Parachute Jump, Coney Island
01-08-03 06 1953-04 Ann 1½ yrs

I have no easy way to construct a list with both the old and new file names (an old pet peeve -- what do you feed a pet peeve, anyway?) so I tried

<TRASH>  <New name-1[|.jpg]>

but no files were shown in the preview.  This was true with or without filtering on file extension .jpg.

Now, I have found a program, exiftool, which has allowed me to store the original file name in the "comment" field of the .jpg files, and I could rename the files from there, and use the Old/New pattern, but exiftool is a very Unix-y beast, and requires a command line invocation, and the the files being worked on be in directories with no spaces in their names.  This in turn requires me to move the files around, and go through the bother of bringing up a dos-box and typing in the command.  I was hoping that I could do it in one fell swoop.

If only I could talk you and the author of IrfanView (plus the author of exiftool) into swapping some code and expanding the range of files that could be manipulated!  As it is, I am switching programs over and over.  A pain in the ...!

Edited by calberga on April 26 2008,01:08
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Posted: May 02 2008,16:47

Mp3/Tag Studio has a number of operations which do not, or at least need not, depend on tags at all.  These include

Direct rename
Rename from list
Create Custom list
Search

Direct rename works with files of any type.

Rename from list sometimes works, using the Almighty Author's suggested trick of writing the filenames as <Old name-1[|.foo]> etc., but sometimes fails, as in the case discussed in this thread.

I haven't tried Search, but it looks as if it, too will work.

Would it be too much to ask for Create Custom list to work as well, if no tags are included in the request, and for Rename from list to work in all cases?

Please?

An offering will be made to the God of Transistors, Resistors and other Solid State Devices if this prayer be granted.

Edited by calberga on May 02 2008,16:48
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Posted: May 07 2008,11:39

A little workaround for using those tools with non-mp3-extension files: Create a macro that first adds an ".mp3" extension to all files, then performs the desired operation and then removes any possible remaining ".mp3" extension.

A little trick for getting a list with old and new names at the same time: Take a look at the .und files for the used rename operations in the Mp3/Tag Studio right after performing an operation that renames files in some way...  :idea:

But sure, I should really look into making those tools more friendly to non-mp3 files.  :ashamed:

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