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The Big Labinski:
If somebody can have a look here - thanks in advance

https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php/topic,78206.msg769977.html#msg769977

blgentry:
Quoting from the other thread:

--- Quote ---Is it possible to accumulate twice the same field- like this?

This is the source "M:\Musik\Buckethead\01 - Worms For The Garden (Buckethead Pikes #26).flac"
The final result should be in the Album tag: Pikes #26 - Worms For The Garden

When I use Fill Properties from Filename - in filename:

ead [Album])
I get: Pikes #26

When I use: -[Album](
I get: Worms for the Garden

Both are fine and correct for me, but how to combine both phrases in one time to get: Pikes #26 - Worms For The Garden.

--- End quote ---

That's rather unusual since you have several fields mixed together.  Is this pattern repeated for many albums that you have?  If so, you can develop an expression that will pull out what you want.  I would do this outside of the Fill Properties From Filename tool.  I'd just do it in the Tagging Window.

Because I'm me, I'd use a regex expression to do it.  Something like:

=regex([filename (name)], /#-\s*(.+)\(Buckethead (.+)\)#/,-1,0)[R2] - [R1]

That expression is TOTALLY untested and probably won't work.  It's just an illustration.

I guess it depends on how many of these you have and how regular the pattern is in the filename as to whether or not it's worth the time to develop the regex (or other techniques) to pull this information out of the file name.

Good luck.

Brian.

The Big Labinski:
Dear blgentry, many thanks for your help. I understand that this is not a typical problem to be solved by MC.

Honestly for me such cryptically phrases are fully not understandable. I thought this could go much more easily.

I was using now a total different way. I found a very good freeware to change the file names. This is easy to use – also for me LOL. So I change the filenames in that way that MC is filling the fields / tags in the correct way during the Import.

TAKE CARE
Stefan

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