On Sun, 18 Feb 2024 21:11:12 +0000 MrBrunes <mr.bru...@gmail.com> wrote:
> That's very useful info and I had no idea that it was possible to > change the filename, let alone that such metadata as tracklistings > etc. were even available, so that is now added to options! > It leaves me with a bit of a quandary in that now I'd like to use ISO > dates e.g. firstbcastdate as an improved sorting method but of course > all the historical download filenames are in what I had thought was a > fixed 'dd mm yyyy' format. I might be able to help with that problem. Attached is a zip of a bash scrip to extract a date from an MP4 file and rename the file to suit. It will probably need hacking about to suit your requirements but if you get stuck, let me know. I *may* be able to solve the problem for you. > But, going back to my original point, it still is rather puzzling why > the filename now includes slashes in the episode date rather than > converting all to spaces, as expected by the 'whitespace' option, as > the metadata appears not to have changed. I guess I can just use > https://www.bulkrenameutility.co.uk/ again to process them for now as > my sed and awk days are long gone. Hopefully there isn't too much of that in the bash script :-) Regards Chris -- __ __| |_ __ __ .------------------------------------------------. / _/ _` \ V V / | mailto:cdw_pcm...@the-walker-household.co.uk | \__\__,_|\_/\_/ |________________________________________________|
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