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    File Naming

    Apologies if this has been covered elsewhere on the a Forum.

    I’ve just started ripping my CD collection to a NAS and have a problem. When a disc is ripped it is saving as artist, CD name and then the individual tracks and names when opened. All is ok until I rip a compilation CD as it then returns as “Various artists” in the folder name.

    The problem is that I then get a “can’t save a folder with the same name” message. Any thoughts on how to address this issue please?

    Many thanks.

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    Re: File Naming

    What is your NAS?

    Are you running Windows or OSX?

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    Hi. Thanks for responding.

    My NAS is the QNAP HS-251+ and I&*8217;m running Windows 10.

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    Re: File Naming

    Please post your filenaming string.

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    Re: File Naming

    Quote Originally Posted by Spoon View Post
    Please post your filenaming string.
    Hi. How do I upload an image please?

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    Re: File Naming

    Why don't you copy & paste the naming string? It is just text.


    Dat Ei

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    Thanks. It&*8217;s been a long week, lol.

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    Not sure what happened there with the word it&*8217;s.

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    Just tried and won&*8217;t let me cut and paste.

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    CD Ripper >> Click 'Set' next to Naming.

    At the top where it says 'Dynamic Naming', select it all with the mouse >> right mouse click on the blue >> copy

    Then right click on a forum post >> paste

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    Re: File Naming

    I hope this is allowed here. I'm going to paste my file naming string which has been carefully worked out with thanks to Spoon and the community here.

    Non compilation albums are treated as Artist Name/Album Name/track - Title unless it's a multi CD set where it's discnumber-track - Title
    Compilations go to a Various Artists folder as Various Artists/Album/track - artist - Title or disc-track - Artists - Title for multi CD comps. I find this works well for almost every album.

    The text is:

    [IFCOMP]Various Artists\[album]\[IFMULTI] \[disc]-[][track] - [artist] - [title][][IF!COMP][artist]\[album]\[IFMULTI]\[disc]-[][track] - [title][]

    I hope this helps someone.

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    Re: File Naming

    Quote Originally Posted by Saint12661 View Post
    Not sure what happened there with the word it&*8217;s.
    if you mean the odd "it&8217;s" instead of "it's", this is because you are likely posting from an iphone/ipad. I notice that when I try to post using my iphone/ipad, things like apostrophes and other symbols show up as a string of numbers/letters.

    This is the only forum I post to where this happens. Not sure what the setting is on this forum software that could fix this. @spoon, any thoughts?

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    Re: File Naming

    The forum disables an hash tagging, because spammers use it to change the font color and hide the spam post below what looks like a normal post. For some reason the iPhone posts ' as this embedded hash.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Spoon View Post
    The forum disables an hash tagging, because spammers use it to change the font color and hide the spam post below what looks like a normal post. For some reason the iPhone posts ' as this embedded hash.
    Odd apple does that. But I understand your logic.

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    Re: File Naming

    Hi Folks,
    One further question on Dynamic daming. Its almost impossible to create a single Dynamic Naming string for all circumstances, certainly a relativity straightforward one.
    There appear to be many strings in my Naming dropdown list (probably historic ones I've created) See attached image.

    DynamicNamingDropDown.JPG

    Its not very easy to identify these strings in the list. Is there a way to prefix the string either with an annotation or some other means.
    Or is the only option to keep these strings saved in another text file and we have cut and past each time.
    I'm finding that really frustrating when I have to switch from Contemporary disc ripping to Classical ripping.

    Hope someone can help
    Regards

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