-Brading Software Message Board
+--Forum: Mp3/Tag Studio Suggestions
+---Topic: Case Fix-Letter Case Fix Addition started by Temerald
Posted by: Guest on Sep. 10 2006,02:57
I work in the music industry and have done so for decades, finding errors in capitalization is extremely common. Using Substring replacements, your program helps automate this. My idea would significantly reduce the need for finding and adding a lot of entries. Experience has taught me that nearly all words that do not contain a vowel, should be all upper case.
A simple program test behind a single check mark will produce this effect.
if [<word> <does not contain> "a" and
<does not conatin> "e" and
<does not conatin> "i" and
<does not conatin> "o" and
<does not conatin> "u"] then <change word to allcaps>
-- I'd leave Y out or make it optional.
For example
Df -> DF
Dht -> DHT
Dj -> DJ
Dmc -> DMC
Dmx -> DMX
-- and that's just the letter D-- trust me this test would go a long way.
Thanks.
Posted by: Magnus Brading on Sep. 10 2006,14:06
Thanks for your tip and insight into this problem. I'm not a big fan of rules that work "almost all of the time" though, since they can't be trusted to create correct results, so sadly I think I must stick with the current list. After using Mp3/Tag Studio for a while and completing this list, it will work very reliably though. Thanks again though.
Posted by: Guest on Nov. 02 2006,02:05
First, I found I've suggested this twice (oops), forgot about my identical suggestion many months ago.
Second: it would be an option, not a rule. Being a DJ with upwards of 50,000+ songs (recorded from CD) I recently spent 4 hours yesterday and another 4 today updating a rules I've accumulated over the past 5 years. I've become more firm in my belief that this optional rule would be beneficial.
When I said "nearly all words", I was being safe. I challenge you this: name a song or group that has a word which has no vowels and is not all in uppercase.
I respect if you don't want to add this simple function but with all due respect the explanation you used to shut it down is flawed. Like I said, an option, not a rule.
Posted by: calberga on Nov. 02 2006,02:38
It depends on the language, and on what you consider a vowel. I have a number of Welsh songs where thing would go wrong unless you treat both "w" and "y" as vowels. "Bugail Hafod Y Cwm" and "Yr Hen Wr Mwyn" for example. And in some Chinese transliterations Ng is a perfectly good word. I think there may some other cases in some of the Slavic languages which would fail the test, as well.
Posted by: Guest on Nov. 04 2006,07:58
So it would not be a simple six or seven line test when dealing in a multi-national environment. Considering the fact I failed to consider the syntax of other languages, now I understand my "flaw" (to eat my own words).
Thank you for your honest reply.
Posted by: calberga on Nov. 04 2006,13:10
Actually, you would have trouble in English, as well. For example, "Mr", "Mrs", "Ms". Not to mention (but I will) "Ph D". Then, in transliterated Russian you can get "zh", "v", and "c". Probably others as well, but those are ones I've seen.
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