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MrC:
No, you can do all of them at once.   If you can export an MPL playlist for your set of files A, and the only thing that is different with your set of files B is the initial path component, such as:

   A's Filename: /path/to/files A/...
   B's Filename: /path/to/files B/...

you can change "/path/to/files A/" to "/path/to/files B/" in an editor, then you can just import the MPL playlist on B, and all the tags that were in A will go to the corresponding files in B.  This will even work if the file suffixes differ, and you change them (e.g. foo.mp3 ==> foo.flac).

Make sense?

jlyness:
It does, will try it, thank you again!

couchjr:
Followup: Now happily doing transfers via an mpl. Mr_C, I've found that swapping the drive name and slash direction for paths is easy enough to do in an editor that I won't need to accept you generous offer of an Automator script. However, there's now one last hurdle to doing these efficiently, unrelated to JRiver but relevant to this process, so I'm posting the question here as well as in a new thread and on Computer Audiophile:

Out of caution, I'm extracting a bunch of iso files using sacd_extract to dff and then converting the dff files to dsf using Audiogate for tagging via an mpl in JRiver. Sound is great. But most of these are classical, and Audiogate strips all commas from the track names (surprising how many there are--eg., "Quartet in A major, K. 123, 1. Allegro"). This means I have to manually replace the commas for every !@#$ track name, which takes forever. I presume the comma stripping means that Audiogate is using commas as a delimiter. My question is, does anyone know how (setting, rule script, etc.) one might change the character Audiogate uses as a delimiter to something rare like £ so that it won't strip commas from track names? The free (mandatory tweet) version of Audiogate offers no user support . . . . and I couldn't find anything useful in the online manual.

Thanks for any assistance!

MrC:
Thanks for the follow-up.

Edit: my original reply here moved to your other thread.

couchjr:
Thanks, Mr_C.

I'm not sure we're on the same page. I want to *keep* the commas in the filenames. Not only do they read better, but the large mpls with all the album tags (made by a colleague, and via which I'm importing all my converted dsf files and extensive tagging) have all the commas (the mpls were created from multichannel extracts of the same ISO files which did not need to go through the DFF-DSF conversion).

My extracted stereo DFF files have the commas. When Audiogate converts the stereo DFF files to DSF files, it strips the commas from the filenames. So the output from Audiogate is a DSF file with no commas. I can't import that file into MC via the mpl because the mpl won't see it. The commas *within* the filenames are not used as delimiters, but as natural language commas. There's no consistency across albums as to how the commas are used within filenames and many albums don't have them.

What I think is happening is that Audiogate is using commas as internal delimiters between files, to keep them separate, since it will convert large batches at a time. Therefore, it strips the commas *within* each filename so that it won't break files into random pieces.

WAIT--maybe I see a possible variant on what you're suggesting. Check me and see if these steps make sense:

1. Delete all existing files from MC Library.
2. Directly import (not via mpl) 100 or so DFF-file albums with commas in filenames.
3. Select all albums
4. Use Rename, Move & Copy as follows:
    A. Select "Rename" as base path and naming template
    B. Check "Find & Replace"
    C. In "Find What:" insert a comma
    D. In "Replace With:" insert a £
    E. Click "OK"
This should result in all filenames being changed in the MC library to replace , with £
5. Select all albums and choose "Update tags from Library"
This should result in the DFF filenames on my attached drive being changed as above (correct?)
6. Run the no-comma DFF files through Audiogate to convert them to no-comma DSF files
7. Delete everything from the MC library
9. Import the no-comma versions of the DSF files and select all albums
10. Use the Rename, Move & Copy tool to reverse the steps in #4 above to restore commas
11. Select all albums and choose "Update tags from Library" to transfer restored-comma filenames to files on disc
12. Delete all albums from MC library
13. Import comma-restored DSF files via the mpl and update tags in both directions as usual

If this works, and is safe, it would probably take far less time than manually replacing commas, but it would be much faster still if I could just change the rule within Audiogate once and be done with it. Pointers in that direction still welcome.

Anyway, thanks for this idea, and please let me know if the above sequence would do what I think, or if it needs tweaking.
 

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