How do I save my edits in PerfectTunes

[garym]

Just noticed it was a different person, Garym, who' requested the naming string. It was posted earlier by Spoon. The below is what Spoon suggested I use and above is the output from PerfectTunes ID where Track is included.

[MAXLENGTH]80,[IFVALUE]album artist,[album artist],[IFCOMP]Various Artists[][IF!COMP][artist][][][]\[MAXLENGTH]80,[album][][IFMULTI], Disc [disc][]\[MAXLENGTH]80,[track] [artist] - [title][]

Something seems odd to me. First, I've never used perfecttunes to change/save files with new names. I've used a naming string in CD Ripper and in CONVERTER, but not in PerfectTunes, so maybe I'm missing something here. But looking at your output, these are the things I notice and questions I have:

1. The naming string has backslashes for creating folders and subfolders. For CD ripper and converter, backslashes only work for WINDOWS versions of dbpoweramp. For Mac machines one uses forward slashes instead. So try that.

2. Ignoring the backslash issue for a moment, if the naming string worked, for the album "Weekend of Jazz 2014" track number 5, the actual file name generated by that naming string should be:

Various Artists (a folder)
.........Weekend of Jazz 2014 (a subfolder)
.............05 Chuck Loeb - Silver Lining

The metadata tag information looks correct. But the filename: Various Artists 201405ChuckLoeb... is wrong. I suspect this is because of my point #1 above. You are not getting separate folders for Various Artists, and the album name. Instead it is all treated as one name in a single folder.

[Spoon]

PerfectTUNEs does not rename files.

[garym]

PerfectTUNEs does not rename files.

Aha. I didn't think so. In that case, the tags above look fine, but they need to use [audio arrange] to change the file names in a batch manner with that naming string. But replace all the backslashes with forward slashes in the naming string.

p.s. My confusion earlier about the %year% tag showing up in your file name was a mistake. You mentioned seeing year in the name, but of course that is because 'year' is in the *album* name.