Rewrite tag values using manipulation rules - possible?

[Biggsy]

Hi,

I'm trying to re-write a bunch of tags on about 10,000 files on an SD card as I'm trying to shorten the album title to something a bit more car-friendly.

The album titles are formatted as 'Now That's What I Call Music! xx' where 'xx' is the zero-padded album number, 01 -> 99

Basically I want to do this (in pseudo-code):
IF LEFT(Album,29)='Now That's What I Call Music!'
SET Album = LEFT(Album,4) + RIGHT(ALBUM,2)

Whatever I've tried seems to always end up with all tags removed from the source files

Is what I want to do possible?

Cheers

[mville]

Re: Rewrite tag values using manipulation rules - possible?

Try this:
ID Tag Update R5 > Manipulate tab > Rule Based Manipulation, add the following:
IF Album=[anyvalue]
SET Album=[GRAB]1,4,[album][][RIGHT]2,[album][]

[Biggsy]

Re: Rewrite tag values using manipulation rules - possible?

Cheers! That worked a treat - annoyingly what you've written there is *very* close to what I had but I guess I must have mucked up the brackets

[Biggsy]

Re: Rewrite tag values using manipulation rules - possible?

So, although the above worked a treat, what II'd *really* like to do is to only apply that rule if the [Album] contains a certain value.

So, if [Album] contains 'Now That's What I Call Music!' then apply the rule and rewrite the [Album] tag but leave the tag alone if it contains any other value.

I've tried
IF [GRAB]1,29[album][]='Now That's What I Call Music!'
SET Album=[GRAB]1,4'[album][][RIGHT]2,[album][]

But it does nothing at all. Also tried with double quotes, no quotes, but nothing seems to make any difference.

Am I barking up completely the wrong tree?

[Spoon]

Re: Rewrite tag values using manipulation rules - possible?

The easiest way would to have:

IF Album=[anyvalue]
SET Album=[GRAB]1,4,[album][][RIGHT]2,[album][]

and use Batch Converter, select all files, then list, sort on album, uncheck all, then select the first of Now.. and hold shift to select the last one in the list and put a check mark. Then convert.

[Biggsy]

Re: Rewrite tag values using manipulation rules - possible?

Well that's kind of what I have been doing to get around te issue, the only thing is I'm trying to do two operations:
1) resize the artwork to a car-friendly size
2) Shorten some album titles for car-friendly display proposes

What I was trying to avoid was having to do two passes (one for artwork, one for tag contents) 'cos it take agesssss

I guess for the responses that it's not possible to include an expression evaluation on the IF?

[Spoon]

Re: Rewrite tag values using manipulation rules - possible?

I do not think you can.

[Biggsy]

Re: Rewrite tag values using manipulation rules - possible?

OK, thanks. I'll stop trying in that case Thanks as always for the quick replies

[Dat Ei]

Re: Rewrite tag values using manipulation rules - possible?

What about storing all tracks of all 'Now That's What I Call Music!' albums in one folder and to rename all tracks to "x-y trackname", where is x is the number of the album and y the tracknumber within the album?


Dat Ei

[mville]

Re: Rewrite tag values using manipulation rules - possible?

OK, thanks. I'll stop trying in that case Thanks as always for the quick replies

You can achieve what you want in MP3Tag, a splendid piece of software.

[Biggsy]

Re: Rewrite tag values using manipulation rules - possible?

I do use MP3Tag, and agree it is very useful. Didn't know it could script so maybe i should take another look