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+--Forum: Mp3/Tag Studio Suggestions
+---Topic: De-concatenating strings? started by EMLane
Posted by: EMLane on July 10 2005,11:04
Greetings all,
Okay, so I searched and read till my eyes bled and couldn't find anything on de-concatenating strings. If I have an mp3 like this: "ArtistName-AlbumTitle-01-SongTitle.mp3" I couldn't find a way to put a space between the two parts of the artist/album/song, so that I end up with "Artist Name - Album Title - 01 - Song Title.mp3". Putting a space between the separators was easy enough, and it would be nice to see an option to insert a space between a lower case letter and an upper case letter. Am I retarded and is there already a way to do this? Perhaps with multi part fields?
If it can be done using some fancy multi part fields, then perhaps there could be a simple check box or something that the user could enable to put a space in a circumstance such as this. May be it's just me, but I run into this frequently (mostly my fault when I forget to configure my encoder properly, or when I've used a program to concatenate titles for archiving, but what's done is done).
Thanks a bunch...
P.S. This program has no equal...
Posted by: Magnus Brading on July 10 2005,23:36
There is no direct support for matching "uppercase letters" vs "lowercase letters" like you ask, but as usual, if you're a little clever, this functionality can be created by combining the generic features of Mp3/Tag Studio. You could e.g. create 26 substring replacement rules (one for each letter in the alphabet) that replace all capital letters with a space and the same letter. Run this replacement setup with the direct rename tool, combined with the "Trim leading/trailing spaces" and "Clean out multiple spaces between words", and you should then have perfectly separated filenames according to your wishes, in one single sweep nonetheless. Then while you're at it, you might as well record a macro of it to have it all available at the click of a single button from then on.
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