Add Last two digits in year to the mp3 title

[dzangger67]

I would like to have all my mp3's include the year (YY) at the end of the titles. For example, Song Title (21) If the year is 9999, I don't want anything appended to the title. I tried the following in the Music Converter (ID Tag Update) but nothing happens.

Title [IF!EQUALS]Year,9999,([RIGHT]2,year[])[]

Is there somewhere specific this needs to be done? I saw an older post about using mp3tag but I would much prefer to use dBpoweramp if I can.

Thank you for your help

[dzangger67]

In MP3Tag, I came up with this:

$if($neql(%year%,9999),$replace(%title%,($right(%y ear%,2)),) ($right(%year%,2)),%title%)

I was hoping to prevent the year from being added over and over... Like Song Title (21) (21)

It seems to work but I would love a solution using the batch conversion application.

Thank you

[simbun]

It looks like Rule Based Manipulation may be what you're after, the problem is the documentation is very sparse so I don't know if there's a Not Equals.

IF Year=9999
SET TITLE=[Title] [RIGHT]2,[Year][]

If year had been missing instead of 9999 you could have used:

IF Year=[anyvalue]

Maybe someone can help with the syntax.

[vilsen]

Try

[IF!EQUALS]year,9999,[title] ([RIGHT]2,[year][])[][IFEQUALS]year,9999,[title][]

[dzangger67]

thanks for your time in helping. I've tried many different things and nothing updates the Title tag. I guess it's going to be Mp3Tag. Thank you all very much.

[vilsen]

I just tried the string in Asset and it works there at least. I'm on the road, so I can't test it in Music Converter though.

But the string should work the same across all dBpoweramp programs?

[simbun]

I just tried the string in Asset and it works there at least. I'm on the road, so I can't test it in Music Converter though.

But the string should work the same across all dBpoweramp programs?

As far as I can tell that syntax doesn't work in [ID Tag Update].[Rule Based Manipulation] or [ID Tag Update].[Additions].
I've no doubt you could use 'Externally Script Tags' but that's overkill for a one-off update.

[vilsen]

Thanks for enlightening me, I should have checked in MC before I posted.

[Spoon]

IF title=[anyvalue]
SET title=[title][IF!EQUALS]year,9999, ([RIGHT]2,[year][])[]

Works in [ID Tag Update] rule based manipulation

[simbun]

The message I'd written earlier has disappeared, oh well.

Apologies vilsen, seems I'm in the wrong here. I defintely tested with the traditional syntax, but whatever it was I was trying resulted in a crash so I assumed it wasn't supported.

[dzangger67]

IF title=[anyvalue]
SET title=[title][IF!EQUALS]year,9999, ([RIGHT]2,[year][])[]

Works in [ID Tag Update] rule based manipulation

Thank you for your help. The [anyvalue] part doesn't seem to work for me. I tried a very specific year and it worked; knowing all the years for this set of songs was 1982.

IF year=1982
SET title=[title][IF!EQUALS]year,9999, ([RIGHT]2,[year][])[]

I tried year>= 1960 and year>1960 and nothing is updated. Seems like this scripting is very particular with how it's written.

[vilsen]

The [anyvalue] part doesn't seem to work for me.

You should use [anyvalue] literally, i.e. write exactly

IF title=[anyvalue]

[vilsen]

The message I'd written earlier has disappeared, oh well.

Apologies vilsen, seems I'm in the wrong here. I defintely tested with the traditional syntax, but whatever it was I was trying resulted in a crash so I assumed it wasn't supported.

No worries! Strange that it crashes for you though.

Spoon's string is more elegant, but I think mine should work too.

[dzangger67]

You should use [anyvalue] literally, i.e. write exactly

IF title=[anyvalue]

It did work. I don't know what I might have done wrong the first time.

Thank you all for being so patient. This should do exactly what I need it to do!