Topic: Replace Master (Read 15360 times)

KingSparta · « **on:** January 28, 2007, 06:50:21 pm »

Ok I Did Some Work On Replace Master

You Will Be Able To Replace, Pre-pend, And Append All At The Same Time

Note You Can Change The Order Of The Options Incase You May Wish To Append Prior To A Replace Etc....

Here Is A Page Of Find And Replace Text Boxes, You Can Limit The Changes From All, Or 1 To 100

Copy, Move And Flip-Flop Have Combo Boxes With All Of The Media Center Fields And User Created Fields.

Something I Am Playing With (Date Finder)

Just A Log File

KingSparta · « **Reply #1 on:** January 28, 2007, 06:55:15 pm »

Comments, Complaints?

KingSparta · « **Reply #2 on:** January 29, 2007, 05:13:40 am »

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But King, you used the same word!

No, Mine has an "s" If i drop the "s" it converts to person. It was also used in another way with another meaning. I actually checked to make sure it did not convert words.

Besides, I think My Moderator Days are almost over now that the forum has been modified, spamers are somewhat blocked, and the two new MC12 forums, and beta forum I am not a moderator in.

I Pruned some of the messages off

marko · « **Reply #3 on:** January 29, 2007, 11:01:12 am »

Super tool. Thanks for the effort. Need to uninstall previous version first, or over the top is OK?

~~D'loading now, report back later in week (hopefully)~~ OK, shout when it's released, then I'll d'load !!

-marko.

jgreen · « **Reply #4 on:** January 29, 2007, 12:26:10 pm »

That was great fun!

Okay, one "comment" I would have: on the "Replace master" page, the "conditional" fields have a drop-down modifier set to "if exists". I'm assuming the drop-down also offers the option of "always"?

Will the "replace data" page allow you to fill an EMPTY field with data, including expressions?

The "Move field data" concept looks brilliant, King! Thank You!

I'm assuming the "not in use" page will eventually be an optional uploader to the
Data Master. I think that's a great idea.

It's looking really good, King. Can't wait to try it out "person"ally

KingSparta · « **Reply #5 on:** January 29, 2007, 02:01:25 pm »

I Changed It

There Is Room For 16 Append, Pre-Pend Or Replace On One Page, And A Combo Box Will Determin What To Do And How Many Times To Do it.

So If You Had Append On There If The Condition Was Met (It Exists, Does Not Exists) Etc... Then You Had "A" In Find And It Found An "A" It Would Append The Other Box To It, And Do It 1 To 100 Times.

jgreen · « **Reply #6 on:** January 29, 2007, 02:14:36 pm »

I think the "replace, append and prepend" page needs to work with completely empty fields, in addition to all the other conditions. It's not clear to me whether it will do this.

KingSparta · « **Reply #7 on:** January 29, 2007, 05:17:16 pm »

Quote from: jgreen on January 29, 2007, 02:14:36 pm

I think the "replace, append and prepend" page needs to work with completely empty fields, in addition to all the other conditions. It's not clear to me whether it will do this.

Please Explain

jgreen · « **Reply #8 on:** January 29, 2007, 05:49:34 pm »

I mean, can I do a replace, an append, or a prepend without "finding" anything? Say i want to add "2007<space>" to the front of every instance of the "name" field for a certain group of tracks, no matter what the name is and even if the field is blank. Will these operations work unconditionally? Or say, I just want to fill a series of blank fields with some calsulated string.

Here's another feature request. Can data be replaced, appended or prepended based on its position in a string? This might be how your "bytes" thing works, I don't know. But here's the example:

Say I have a set of strings of varying content but identical format. "Date" would be a good example, where I have various dates of the format "mmddyyyy" and I want to replace, append or prepend ALL instances based on format, rather than "finding" any particular content, which would be inconsistent. Can this be done based on, say "replace positions 3 and 4 ("dd") with "<something else>"?

In previous versions you had an option to start the operation x places ahead or behind the found object. But you still had to find an object, so if I wanted to insert something 3 places in, I had to "always" prepend a "-", and then later "find" the "-" and insert my new string 3 spaces behind it. Otherwise the "prepend" operation could not be pushed 3 spaces into the string, I recall.

KingSparta · « **Reply #9 on:** January 29, 2007, 06:08:31 pm »

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I mean, can I do a replace, an append, or a prepend without "finding" anything?

Yes, It Is Selectable

KingSparta · « **Reply #10 on:** February 04, 2007, 03:37:15 pm »

Today I Worked On This Project About 6 Hours

I Also Updated The Images Above.

KingSparta · « **Reply #11 on:** February 06, 2007, 03:31:20 pm »

Worked On De-Scrunch ToDay

Orginal:

CraigDavid-BornToDoIt-Rendezvous.mp3

De-Scrunched:

Craig David - Born To Do It - Rendezvous.mp3

It Will Work On All Fields If You Wish, You Can Also Use A Button For Manual De-Scrunch

jgreen · « **Reply #12 on:** February 06, 2007, 06:49:35 pm »

King--

This looks really cool. I saw you slip that DeCruncher in the previous pix, but I didn't want to lay any pressure on the "development team" by asking about it. That ought to be a great feature.

Hope things are going well in the Real World. I laughed so hard at that hood/trunk bit that my dentures popped out and landed in Old Ma's soup.

KingSparta · « **Reply #13 on:** February 06, 2007, 06:58:22 pm »

Actually the De-Scrunch Is User Configurable

If you look at the new Updated Image 2

You will see a List Of "ABC..." and any other chr you want to add, it simply goes into a loop from 1 to len(string) seeing if the current chr exists in the user defined mask if so add a space then add the current chr until end of string.

You can also use it manually by just pressing the De-Scrunch Button.

KingSparta · « **Reply #14 on:** February 08, 2007, 04:31:31 pm »

I am planing on working on it a bit more this weekend, I hope, i think i am sick however (muscles hurt, flue maybe? I did have my flue shot a few months ago so not sure).

Not sure what else i need to add to it.

Any Ideas?

jgreen · « **Reply #15 on:** February 08, 2007, 07:49:36 pm »

It all sounds good, King. Hope you get well soon.

One thing I might ask, and I'm sure you answered this before, but is there a simple way to:

#1. Clear a library field that may have some fields populated and others blank.

#2. Insert a string into a library field where some may be blank and others would have various text. In either case the inserted string would completely replace the previous blank and/or populated fields.

Both these requests are easily done within MC, of course. But my point in asking is that now that every other concievable append/prepend/replace action is possible within Replace Master, these two simple actions ought to be there also.

So get well soon, King. And thanks again for working on it.

KingSparta · « **Reply #16 on:** February 08, 2007, 07:57:04 pm »

Actually I think you can do 1, and 2 now.

I am running a small temp 100.2, goggle search of muscle aches, coughing, sneezing, flem, temp came up basically flu.

KingSparta · « **Reply #17 on:** February 13, 2007, 12:03:32 pm »

Breaking News!

I am sick, I Have the Flu And Bronchitis

Now I wonder why I paid for a flu shot a few months ago

I fill like a Train Ran Over Me And Backed Up And Ran Over Me Again Just To Make Sure.

JimH · « **Reply #18 on:** February 13, 2007, 12:07:28 pm »

Maybe you can get a refund.

Sorry to hear the news. But now I'm glad I didn't get a flu shot. Maybe when I get old....

KingSparta · « **Reply #19 on:** February 13, 2007, 12:22:47 pm »

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Maybe you can get a refund

I doubt it, they have a no return policy

it must be the bird flu

someone gave me "the finger" a week ago

Doh!

I did accomplish something, I did get my dr. to write me a new script for LUNESTA, and the Cough syrup is the good kind (a narcotic). Where is my incense.

i'm taking the rest of the day off to meditate.

KingSparta · « **Reply #20 on:** February 18, 2007, 12:51:34 pm »

Ok There Is A Beta Up, Batch Is Disabled.

http://www.spartasoftware.com/MC-Plugins/12/index.html

jgreen · « **Reply #21 on:** February 18, 2007, 01:43:28 pm »

This looks fantastic, King! There are a LOT of features here, so I'm just going to dribble out the comments as I go along. For starters:

--On startup, I went to settings and cleared all fields and then selected a field. Returning to the main page, there was no data visible. Only when I pressed "next field" did the data appear.

--"back one field" doesn't seem to work. i can cycle through selected fields by pressing "next field", but "back one field" doesn't have any effect.

King, all this new stuff is really great looking. The layout for the operation tabs, "Replace . . ." and "Move . . ." seems very clear and powerful. Thanks, and congrats!

KingSparta · « **Reply #22 on:** February 18, 2007, 02:18:57 pm »

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--On startup, I went to settings and cleared all fields and then selected a field. Returning to the main page, there was no data visible. Only when I pressed "next field" did the data appear.

when the program starts it just starts, it does not read any data

if you select next field or file it will get the file data.

I may change this

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--"back one field" doesn't seem to work. i can cycle through selected fields by pressing "next field", but "back one field" doesn't have any effect.

I just fixed this, new version is up

jgreen · « **Reply #23 on:** February 18, 2007, 02:23:56 pm »

Okay.

--Actions in the "Move . . ." tab do not seem to require the "enable" button to be checked. They will to it anayway. Actions in the "Replace . . ." tab DO require this.

--"Enable" button is too small, IMO. Not clear that this is required for operations to work.

--Pressing "do it" in the "move" tab completes the action, at least on a single file. pressing "do it" in the "replace" tab does nothing. Only going to the main tab and pressing "save preview data" seems to complete a "replace" tab action. For consistency's sake, can it be one or the other?

KingSparta · « **Reply #24 on:** February 18, 2007, 02:56:17 pm »

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"enable" button

It is called a "Check Box"

The Way It Should Work, Is In Manual Mode Or Batch It Will Not Do Any Of The Operations If It Is Not Enabled.

Pressing On The Buttons Should Allow The Operation No Matter If It Is Enabled (Since Your Forcing It)

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Enable" button is too small

Not Sure What Your Talking About, There Is No "Enable Buttons"

I Will Work On It More Next Weekend, Or When I Find The Time.

KingSparta · « **Reply #25 on:** February 18, 2007, 03:49:00 pm »

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--Pressing "do it" in the "move" tab completes the action, at least on a single file. pressing "do it" in the "replace" tab does nothing. Only going to the main tab and pressing "save preview data" seems to complete a "replace" tab action. For consistency's sake, can it be one or the other?

Note that in manual mode, the Preview Changes, the Orginal data does not change unless you press the save button for the preview data.

at that point, The preview data is saved to that file for that field.

KingSparta · « **Reply #26 on:** February 20, 2007, 12:55:02 pm »

2.0.4 Is Up For Download.

Sometimes The Plug-In Would Not Change The Data In The Preview Window.

gappie · « **Reply #27 on:** February 21, 2007, 05:14:57 pm »

i changed a bunch of tags that are otherwise unchangeable,. like complete album and numbers playd. and it did that very nicely. but all manually, as far as i could see putting things in the replace etc tab made that only easier, but i could not find out how to do the whole list.

thanks, it looks prommising, and the albums that mc found incomplete for some reason are at least at this moment complete again.

KingSparta · « **Reply #28 on:** February 21, 2007, 06:10:13 pm »

I have Batch Disabled....

It works for me

I want more feedback before I enable the batch command to work.

gappie · « **Reply #29 on:** February 21, 2007, 06:25:53 pm »

oh, that explains it. well, then it works great, can not give more feedback then that. or it should be that having shortcuts to operate the buttons would be nice, there is a lot of mousing involved when doin about 90 songs.

btw, the changing of complete album only lasted till the next start of mc, as expected, was just curious what would happen.

KingSparta · « **Reply #30 on:** February 21, 2007, 07:12:49 pm »

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btw, the changing of complete album only lasted till the next start of mc, as expected

I Guess MC Updates That On The Fly Or Every so Often.

dcwebman · « **Reply #31 on:** February 22, 2007, 07:45:02 am »

King, just to let you know that I came across a need for this tool and tried it out. The podcasts I get coming in have Names that have a prefix of the date like "2007-02-16 Episode 1". When I sync to my iPod, that's just wasted space for seeing what episode/chapter I'm on. I was trimming each name manually and then thought about trying your plug-in.

You certainly throw a lot of options in there so there may be an easier way to do this but I selected the Name field in the Settings tab, and in the Replace, Append, Pre-Pend, and Cut tab put a space in the Find and Do strings, Condition If Exists, Cut-Before, and # To Do of 1. Of course I enabled that. Back at the Main screen I clicked De-Scrunch Preview and was surprised that it appeared to work.

Is there an easier way to do this trimming?

KingSparta · « **Reply #32 on:** February 22, 2007, 01:29:01 pm »

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Is there an easier way to do this trimming?

Well The original Was: 2007-02-16 Episode 1

and you want it to be changed to what?

how do you think the UI should be changed to make it easy-er?

jgreen · « **Reply #33 on:** February 22, 2007, 01:47:08 pm »

DC--

If I understand what your goal was, you just wanted it shorter, any kind of shorter, so you changed
"2007-02-16 Episode 1" to "Episode 1". And your comment, AFAICT, is, "well, simple truncations ought to be easier."

Granted, and maybe King can finesse this. And yet, it wouldn't have been any more comlicated using Replace Master to change "2007-02-16 Episode 1" to "07-E 1", or some such, all in one swoop. And I think this is the real power of it. I don't know of any file-name changer as powerful as this, let alone that will work with all tags and MC-specific fields.

Quoting dcwebman:
"Of course I enabled that."

Fairly diplomatically put, DC. You don't really say whether you feel it was a checkbox or a button.

KingSparta · « **Reply #34 on:** February 22, 2007, 01:58:43 pm »

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Back at the Main screen I clicked De-Scrunch Preview and was surprised that it appeared to work.

After you make some settings, the next button will update also, you must manually save since batch is disabled right now.

KingSparta · « **Reply #35 on:** February 22, 2007, 02:25:31 pm »

Now both me And Sue Have Bronchitis, I think this house is making us sick (mold maybe).

I contacted a chemical company today to have him come to give a lecture monday about products from his company. when talking to him he stated he would bring me a new chemical foam product (free, thats the best kind) so i could foam the walls of my house, and this chemical will\should kill mold.

in case anyone has been asleep in the past 5 years Mold is the new #1 destroyer of homes and high on the home health issues list now days. the company I work for does not want to get into the business of mold, due to all the mega million dollar lawsuits running around now days.

Mark Is Now Stepping down from His soap box, and current events speech.

jgreen · « **Reply #36 on:** February 22, 2007, 05:07:48 pm »

King--

Make sure none of this loose talk about mold gets back to your insurance company. No matter how steep the bill for dealing with this stuff that looks so much like mold, once your insurance company declares it "mold" you can just forget it.

Also: don't you think we might be ready for a version of Replace Master that supports batch?

KingSparta · « **Reply #37 on:** February 22, 2007, 05:32:45 pm »

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don't you think we might be ready for a version of Replace Master that supports batch?

I'm not really impressed with the feedback

jgreen · « **Reply #38 on:** February 22, 2007, 05:38:43 pm »

That's easy to fix.

KingSparta · « **Reply #39 on:** February 22, 2007, 06:57:55 pm »

I still need to have more time to work on it...

Right now My work place is like "Paton Place" Much Turmoil

Tonight maybe 5mg night of Lunesta (max is 3mg) because I have some disturbing workplace grape vine news (It's faster than CNN or FoxNews).

dcwebman · « **Reply #40 on:** February 23, 2007, 09:22:59 am »

I guess I wasn't clear in my post. Sorry. I wasn't complaining about anything. I got Replace Master to change the filenames like I wanted, just like jgreen said, and to do it the first time I thought was pretty good. I just was wondering if there was a quicker way to do it. If I was using VB it would simply be a call like:
name = mid(name, instr(name, " ")+1)

I was just trying to find the same type of thing. I guess from the responses, I did. I'm happy but just was wondering if I was understanding how to do everything since there are a lot of options present. Good job King!

KingSparta · « **Reply #41 on:** February 26, 2007, 06:31:14 pm »

I actually found some issues where if you use a rule in a find and replace

It does not work

when i get some time i will work on it.

today I gave a class to termite techs and managers that came throughout North Carolina, it went well.

Glad it is over, been working on that for like two weeks, I am tired...

KingSparta · « **Reply #42 on:** March 04, 2007, 12:00:24 pm »

worked on it for a few mins

2.0.5 Fixed The Problem With Rules In The Find Box

Now Avail

KingSparta · « **Reply #43 on:** March 21, 2007, 06:04:29 pm »

Added Tab 5

I Am Playing With A User Configured Date Finder

I was looking thru All The Way Other Countries Enter Dates, And Added All The Ways To The Default Formats. My Plan Is To Scan For Dates In The File Name And Or Tags And Then Maybe Saving Them Into A User Defined Field.

Really This Would Be Handy For Me To Find Old Time Radio Broadcast Dates Within Normal Fields And File Name And Then Saving Them In A Coherent Format.

jgreen · « **Reply #44 on:** March 21, 2007, 11:45:24 pm »

Glad to see you're still kickin' it around. I'll repeat what I said, Replace Master is the most advanced renaming tool (with batch processing) available inside or outside of MC or any other media player, or any thing. It would be a shame to hide your light under a bushel, King.

KingSparta · « **Reply #45 on:** March 23, 2007, 06:34:33 pm »

I will be working on it more soon since i am on vacation starting on Wen (wife going in the hosp).

The Good News For This Past Week Is ServiceMaster Who Owns Terminix, and Is 1.02 Billion (With A "B") In Dept Is being Sold. Maybe the new owners will turn the company around (Starting With treating Customers Homes Correctly) or Will close Terminix.

The Bad News Was I had To Pay Back Part Of My Manager Bonus Today -$4464.39, Dang-it (They made A Mistake). I Was going to use it to help buy a new computer.

I hate it when that happens.

I was really hoping to get more feedback\Ideas from users for the program.

Griff · « **Reply #46 on:** March 23, 2007, 10:21:33 pm »

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(wife going in the hosp).

Hope everything turns out good for Sue.

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The Good News For This Past Week Is ServiceMaster Who Owns Terminix, and Is 1.02 Billion (With A "B") In Dept Is being Sold. Maybe the new owners will turn the company around (Starting With treating Customers Homes Correctly) or Will close Terminix.

There will always be BUGs, especially down here.

Never knew there was so many varieties, untill I move here.

Especially those chiggers, they eat me alive.

KingSparta · « **Reply #47 on:** March 24, 2007, 08:20:00 am »

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Hope everything turns out good for Sue.

She was crying last night, I asked her why and she said she was scared Something Would Go Wrong.

I had a Operation in 1988, all they did was cut my skin, and my heart stopped for like 55 seconds. They Put Me In The CCU after the operation for 6 or so hours to make sure i was OK in case i coded on them. some of the nurses asked if i seen a bright light and all that. I told them no, but I felt hot, and the sign on the door said closed for lunch. Being A Impatient guy i just came back to my body.

KingSparta · « **Reply #48 on:** April 15, 2007, 07:40:27 pm »

I did play with this a bit today....

01. When You Press Manual Save The Plug-In Will Advance To The Next File
02. Turned On the Batch Button
If You Used A Leading Space Or Trailing Space In A Search For Or Replace, The Plug-in Was Trimming This Space When It Should Not.
03. Added A Prompt For Save In Batch Mode.

Note Batch Mode Is Not Fully Tested, Any Reports You Have Will Help.

jgreen · « **Reply #49 on:** April 15, 2007, 09:20:10 pm »

YESSSSS!

INTERACT FORUM

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