ID Tag Update utility codec & Rule-based manipulation

[Meldrew61]

I am looking for more information/help about the programmable actions that are available in the Rule-based manipulation of tags. I have seen in forum posts mention of actions such as [GRAB], [RIGHT], [TRIM}, [REPLACE] etc but can find no online documentation that describes their usage and/or other available actions. I would be most grateful if someone can point me to any resource/help that provides comprehensive documentation on the facilities available in the Rule-based manipulation.

[Spoon]

Re: ID Tag Update utility codec & Rule-based manipulation

perhaps if you say what you are wanting to do?

[Meldrew61]

Re: ID Tag Update utility codec & Rule-based manipulation

I want to remove text such as ", Disc 1" from the end of album titles but it would be nice know what text manipulation functions are available

[simbun]

Re: ID Tag Update utility codec & Rule-based manipulation

The functions you refer to in your first post are naming functions, but these are, as the name suggests used for naming your ripped/processed files.

Documentation about the [ID Tag Update] utility is here, which contains exactly what you're trying to achieve.

[Meldrew61]

Re: ID Tag Update utility codec & Rule-based manipulation

Hello Simbun, I have seen this documentation and it doesn't tell me how to do what I want to do namely remove the string(s) ", Disc n" from the end of the album title

[simbun]

Re: ID Tag Update utility codec & Rule-based manipulation

On this page under the heading 'Word / Character Replacement' it shows you how to replace/remove '(Disc 1)'; it doesn't remove it JUST from the album title though if that's your issue?

To be honest dBpoweramp isn't a particularly powerful post-rip tagging program, you're probably better off looking at mp3tag or foobar.

[Meldrew61]

Re: ID Tag Update utility codec & Rule-based manipulation

Yes I saw that but I really only want to remove this text from the album tag. A few years back I did something similar and found some info on how to do it using rule-manipulation but cannot find the thread that showed how to do it so I know it can be done.

[simbun]

Re: ID Tag Update utility codec & Rule-based manipulation

If you don't find a better way I guess the following would work:

If album=[anyvalue]
SET album=[REPLACE]<comma_> Disc 1,,[album][]

If album=[anyvalue]
SET album=[REPLACE]<comma_> Disc 2,,[album][]
...

Certainly not as elegant as a regular expression in mp3tag, but I know very little around this functionality so if you do find a better way, do let us know.