I agree with Mnyb. Also, *if* your "album" tag *is always* in the format "<Composer> : <Work>" you could even automate the process with mp3tag. Whether you would want to do this is another matter, but I am just giving an example of what is possible and no doubt there are even better ways of doing the same job.
*Always* make sure you have a backup of the music files before trying anything like this and, also, *test it out on a few albums copied to a temporary folder before doing it "live"*. - Bulk copy the album tag over the to composer tag, using "Convert" - Bulk strip out the first " : " and everything following it from the new Composer tag using a new "Action" (leaving the composer name). - Copy the album tag over the to composer tag, using "Convert" Highlight the lines you want to change (CTRL-A for all lines) Click on "Convert" on the Menu Bar Select "Tag to Tag" Field "COMPOSER" (from drop down list) Format String %album% OK then - Strip out the first " : " and everything following it from the new Composer tag using a new "Action": Click on Actions (on menu bar) Select "Actions" (top of list) Create New - top icon on the right Enter a new name for the action group Create New - top icon on the right Select "Replace with regular expression" from drop down list Field: COMPOSER (from drop down list) Regular expression: (.*?) : (.*) (where " : " is what you always use to separate the composer and work in the album tag) Replace matches with: $1 (The $1 refers to the first part of the regular expression, i.e. (.*?) Click on OK Click on OK Click on "Close" (if you click on OK is will run any action that is ticked) Now highlight the lines you want to run the new action on Click Actions on the Menu Bar Select the name of the action you have just created Touch, Meridian G92, Meridian G55, PMC OB1i speakers, HP Proliant Microserver/Ubuntu, PC/Windows 7, iPad 4, iPeng, Squeezepad. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JohnB's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=31553 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=103331 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
