Additional Tagging & Reporting Tools

[phred]

phred, i've included this preset to plugin package:

WOW! Thanks very much. I haven't had time to test it yet, but will later today.

[boroda]

A few more function requests. No need to hurry:

$Name(abc.def.gh.mp3) returns abc.def.gh

$CutLeft(abcde,2) returns cde (while $Left(abcde,2) returns ab)

$CutRight(abcde,2) returns abc (while $Right(abcde,2) returns de)

$RoundDown(4.28,1) returns 4.2

$RoundUp(5.2,0) returns 6

$Mod(8,3) returns 2

Some of those are only possible using regex or complex formula (to work in all cases), so it will help people to create a template they need right away. Thanks!

http://www.mediafire.com/file/188i0mxfoq4o9bz/mb_TagTools_2018-02-06.zip

[redwing]

Thanks! I didn't expect you'd implement it that quickly.

Two issues:
$Name should return only filename without last dot and extension. Currently it's no different than <Filename>.
$Mod should return a remainder not a quotient.

[boroda]

$Mod is fixed:

http://www.mediafire.com/file/188i0mxfoq4o9bz/mb_TagTools_2018-02-06.zip

$Name returns only filename without extension and (if any) path to file for me. check filenames in far or total commander.

[redwing]

Both issues are fixed now (if I try with the previous version, $Name still shows full filename). Thanks!

Maybe I should rewrite the whole useful formula guide with these new functions. I'll think about that.

[phred]

@boroda74-

While syncing a few thousand tracks to my portable, I noticed that a lot of Albums, Album Artists, and Artists came across as "Name, The" and I had specifically changed that in MB's Sorting Tab. But obviously I missed a lot of them.

Using AT&RT, I was able to get rid of ", The" on thousands of tracks in just a few minutes. But I had to run it three times - once for each tag.

I copied the default preset and tried to add two other tags for a total of three: Sort Album, Sort Album Artist, Sort Artist. But this new preset is only looking at one tag. How can I get it to look at all three tags and if found, remove ", The" from the end of the tag.

phred, i've included this preset to plugin package

Thanks again boroda74!! I'm reporting that this works as expected and better than what I was struggling to create. It's much appreciated.

[redwing]

$NumberOfDays function returns floats. Can you make it return integers (just rounding down the rest)?

And I'm not sure $SubDate needs to return mm:ss part too. Why not just return days as integer?

[Freddy Barker]

$NumberOfDays function returns floats. Can you make it return integers (just rounding down the rest)?

And I'm not sure $SubDate needs to return mm:ss part too. Why not just return days as integer?

Thanks for info, will have a play and see what I can come up with - if anything, as not used the plugin before!

Best regards:  Freddy

[boroda]

$NumberOfDays function returns floats. Can you make it return integers (just rounding down the rest)?

And I'm not sure $SubDate needs to return mm:ss part too. Why not just return days as integer?

i'm surprised that it doesn't return integers. i'll fix it.

for $SubDate, what will be the difference with $NumberOfDays, if i make $NumberOfDays to work correctly?

[redwing]

for $SubDate, what will be the difference with $NumberOfDays, if i make $NumberOfDays to work correctly?

What do you mean? $NumberOfDays returns days from the current date and $SubDate returns days between two given dates?

[redwing]

$Abs(number) would be also useful that returns absolute value of given number.

[phred]

I'm looking for a way to have AS&R search -any- field. When doing a custom search MB allows the use of "Any Field." Using that I can find any field that has Unicode characters (') and replace them with ASCII ('). Using AS&R I have to do it field by field. Being able to set AS&R to look at any field would really simply the process and set it to be automatically applied whenever it comes across a '.

Thanks.

[boroda]

for $SubDate, what will be the difference with $NumberOfDays, if i make $NumberOfDays to work correctly?

What do you mean? $NumberOfDays returns days from the current date and $SubDate returns days between two given dates?

i'll remake all date functions as i'm not satisfied with current set of functions.

[boroda]

I'm looking for a way to have AS&R search -any- field. When doing a custom search MB allows the use of "Any Field." Using that I can find any field that has Unicode characters (') and replace them with ASCII ('). Using AS&R I have to do it field by field. Being able to set AS&R to look at any field would really simply the process and set it to be automatically applied whenever it comes across a '.

Thanks.

unfortunately its now too late (too hard) to do this.

[phred]

unfortunately its now too late (too hard) to do this.

Understandable. Thanks.