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Title: Help with Template ?
Post by: crnirg on March 23, 2023, 05:05:34 PM
If you can help:

I have a song :

Eric Clapton Backless - 04. Roll It

where is "Eric Clapton" Artist and "Beckless" is Album, the rest is self-explanatory, how can I make a template so that the first two words indicate Artist and the third the album?
Title: Re: Help with Template ?
Post by: phred on March 23, 2023, 05:10:49 PM
Seriously? You can't figure out
<Artist> <Album>
Title: Re: Help with Template ?
Post by: crnirg on March 23, 2023, 05:15:26 PM
I get
Eric - Artist
and
Album - Clapton Backless ...
Title: Re: Help with Template ?
Post by: phred on March 23, 2023, 05:18:59 PM
Then your tags are not correct.
A screenshot of the tag editor with this album might be helpful here.

And where are you seeing the result you say you're getting?
Title: Re: Help with Template ?
Post by: crnirg on March 23, 2023, 05:23:38 PM
I have a file
Eric Clapton Backless - 04. Roll It.mp3

and I want to do the tags as I said

Normally it's not 1 song but more so it's not really for manual editing.
The problem is how to put the first two words in Artist and the third in Album.
I guess I explained better what's bothering me :)
Title: Re: Help with Template ?
Post by: phred on March 23, 2023, 05:39:42 PM
Ok, I -think- I now know what you're trying to do.

You have a file that has the filename Eric Clapton Backless - 04. Roll It.mp3 and you want to bring the file into MB, is that correct? But it appears in MB as
Eric - Artist
and
Album - Clapton Backless

How are you getting it into MB and I'll ask again, where are you seeing it incorrectly? A screenshot might help.
Title: Re: Help with Template ?
Post by: crnirg on March 23, 2023, 05:52:50 PM
Maybe my speed is causing confusion - I permuted the result:
This is the result:
Artist = Eric
Album = Clapton Backless
Track# = 04
Title = Roll It

I would like it to be:
Artist = Eric Clapton
Album = Backless
Track# = 04
Title = Roll It

When you mentioned the file that is on my old CD
Eric Clapton Backless - 04. Roll It.mp3

I want to switch to HD and then arrange the tags in the described way.
The problem is that I don't know how to combine 2 strings into one (Eric+Clapton) because I don't have a character to separate ( - , . or similar).
If you're not kidding me, I think I've explained my pain well :)
Title: Re: Help with Template ?
Post by: phred on March 23, 2023, 06:19:56 PM
Since you've repeatedly ignored my request for a screenshot, and ignored my various questions, I won't be able to help any further.
Title: Re: Help with Template ?
Post by: MotleyG on March 23, 2023, 06:40:16 PM
Maybe my speed is causing confusion - I permuted the result:
This is the result:
Artist = Eric
Album = Clapton Backless
Track# = 04
Title = Roll It

I would like it to be:
Artist = Eric Clapton
Album = Backless
Track# = 04
Title = Roll It

When you mentioned the file that is on my old CD
Eric Clapton Backless - 04. Roll It.mp3

I want to switch to HD and then arrange the tags in the described way.
The problem is that I don't know how to combine 2 strings into one (Eric+Clapton) because I don't have a character to separate ( - , . or similar).
If you're not kidding me, I think I've explained my pain well :)
Without a defined separator, this is pretty complicated to automate. There are so many possible patterns that could exist with a large batch of files. What if the Artist has just one name, like Cher? Or three or more names like Creedence Clearwater Revival? It gets further complicated by punctuation like Earth, Wind & Fire. So while it may seem like a quick fix, you could end up causing a whole lot of worse issues to fix instead.

How many songs are you trying to fix like this? It may be more efficient to simply do one album at a time.
Title: Re: Help with Template ?
Post by: crnirg on March 23, 2023, 06:48:05 PM
I don't know how :
https://gifyu.com/image/SIv2f
or : (https://s2.gifyu.com/images/imaged83cec448a98ad33.png) (https://gifyu.com/image/SIv2f)
or : https://s2.gifyu.com/images/imaged83cec448a98ad33.png

where is:

Album = Dedić Na obali
Artist = Arsen

it should :

Album = Na obali
Artist = Arsen Dedić
Title: Re: Help with Template ?
Post by: The Incredible Boom Boom on March 23, 2023, 11:45:35 PM
It's probably easier to use MusicBrainz Picard to fix your tag information. If you would rather do it manually, the next easiest option is mp3tag, which - if your filenames have the same format - you can possibly use to guess a file's tags based on its filename.
Title: Re: Help with Template ?
Post by: crnirg on March 24, 2023, 12:19:46 AM
Thanks for the answers - there are a lot of them - about 650 - when ripping from the original CDs, an error crept in that I wanted to fix now - in any case, thanks for the answers.
Title: Re: Help with Template ?
Post by: Zak on March 24, 2023, 02:27:43 AM
You won't be able to parse the tags correctly until you fix your file names.

I'd suggest downloading one of the many free batch file renaming programs and replacing "Eric Clapton" with "Eric Clapton - " or whatever the artist name is.
Then you can use the hyphen in your tag template.
Title: Re: Help with Template ?
Post by: crnirg on March 24, 2023, 03:05:31 PM
The files are not uniform - I thought it was possible to do something like word1 + word2 = word3 and then separate them and insert them into tags.
Thank you for the answers.
Title: Re: Help with Template ?
Post by: crnirg on March 31, 2023, 04:52:54 PM
My solution for 2 words Artist :

Virtual Tag1 -->> $Split(<filename>," ",1) $Split(<filename>," ",2)
and Swap
<Virtual Tag1> to <Artist>