HankScorpio
03-30-2009, 06:36 AM
Hey guys, as a dBpoweramp user from 2001, I've recently started using again after finding a batch of CDs I hadn't ripped and I'm having a bizarre naming problem that is driving me nuts!
Any help would be gratefully received... :)
I thought I had my string done as I wanted and it was working ok:
[IFCOMP][IFVALUE]album artist,[album artist],Various Artists[]\[[year]] [album][IFMULTI] [Disk [disc]][]\[track]-[artist][][IF!COMP][IFVALUE]album artist,[album artist],[artist][]\[[year]] [album][IFMULTI] [Disk [disc]][]\[track]-[artist][]-[title]
Giving me:
Artist\[date] ALBUM [disk if multi]\xx-ARTIST-TITLE.mp3
Which is how I like it.
And then yesterday happened...
An album with no date.
So I added what I thought would take care of it and replaced
[[[year]]
with
[IFVALUE]year,[[year]] , []
And this is when bizarre starts, a new album inserted without date and ripped gives:
ALBUM\xx-Artist[]Artist\, ALBUM\xx-Artist[]-TITLE.mp3
:eek:
Now... I add a date manually and I get back to my usual
Artist\[date] ALBUM\xx-ARTIST-TITLE.mp3
So if I then remove the date that I entered manually (without refreshing the disk), I get:
Artist\[0] ALBUM\xx-ARTIST-TITLE.mp3
which is close but no cigar.
The behaviour is consistent and repeatable and I realise it's probably down to the square brackets somewhere but that doeasn't explain why after adding and removing I get a more reasonable path.
And after all that, I'm just looking for a bit of help with formatting so that if I have an album with no date, I don't get anything date related in the naming string.
Standard:
Artist\[date] ALBUM [disk if multi]\xx-ARTIST-TITLE.mp3
No date available:
Artist\ALBUM [disk if multi]\xx-ARTIST-TITLE.mp3
Current full string is:
[IFCOMP][IFVALUE]album artist,[album artist],Various Artists[]\[IFVALUE]year,[[year]] , [][album][IFMULTI] [Disk [disc]][]\[track]-[artist][][IF!COMP][IFVALUE]album artist,[album artist],[artist][]\[IFVALUE]year,[[year]] , [][album][IFMULTI] [Disk [disc]][]\[track]-[artist][]-[title]
Previous string that worked until no date (would be nice if this could be fixed) is the first one posted.
(apologies for the rambling post :D )
Any help would be gratefully received... :)
I thought I had my string done as I wanted and it was working ok:
[IFCOMP][IFVALUE]album artist,[album artist],Various Artists[]\[[year]] [album][IFMULTI] [Disk [disc]][]\[track]-[artist][][IF!COMP][IFVALUE]album artist,[album artist],[artist][]\[[year]] [album][IFMULTI] [Disk [disc]][]\[track]-[artist][]-[title]
Giving me:
Artist\[date] ALBUM [disk if multi]\xx-ARTIST-TITLE.mp3
Which is how I like it.
And then yesterday happened...
An album with no date.
So I added what I thought would take care of it and replaced
[[[year]]
with
[IFVALUE]year,[[year]] , []
And this is when bizarre starts, a new album inserted without date and ripped gives:
ALBUM\xx-Artist[]Artist\, ALBUM\xx-Artist[]-TITLE.mp3
:eek:
Now... I add a date manually and I get back to my usual
Artist\[date] ALBUM\xx-ARTIST-TITLE.mp3
So if I then remove the date that I entered manually (without refreshing the disk), I get:
Artist\[0] ALBUM\xx-ARTIST-TITLE.mp3
which is close but no cigar.
The behaviour is consistent and repeatable and I realise it's probably down to the square brackets somewhere but that doeasn't explain why after adding and removing I get a more reasonable path.
And after all that, I'm just looking for a bit of help with formatting so that if I have an album with no date, I don't get anything date related in the naming string.
Standard:
Artist\[date] ALBUM [disk if multi]\xx-ARTIST-TITLE.mp3
No date available:
Artist\ALBUM [disk if multi]\xx-ARTIST-TITLE.mp3
Current full string is:
[IFCOMP][IFVALUE]album artist,[album artist],Various Artists[]\[IFVALUE]year,[[year]] , [][album][IFMULTI] [Disk [disc]][]\[track]-[artist][][IF!COMP][IFVALUE]album artist,[album artist],[artist][]\[IFVALUE]year,[[year]] , [][album][IFMULTI] [Disk [disc]][]\[track]-[artist][]-[title]
Previous string that worked until no date (would be nice if this could be fixed) is the first one posted.
(apologies for the rambling post :D )