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More => Old Versions => JRiver Media Center 22 for Windows => Topic started by: mattlovell on March 31, 2017, 09:17:47 am
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Hello,
Did anything ever come from the suggestion (back to the end of 2011) of adding regular expressions to Carnac?
I ask since I have a directory structure, for a subset of my classical music, that has files in varying depths of directories, but I'd like to extract the Composer name from the "top-most" directory.
Files generally reside in a structure like the following:
Opera\<Composer>\<File>
but there are times that an additional directory gets added to the path:
Opera\<Composer>\<Collection name>\<File>
and I would still like to extract the Composer properly. The filenames also often have a Conductor present, parenthetically, after the name of the work. It would be nice to be able to extract that field as well.
Any suggestions?
Thanks!
Matt
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Did anything ever come from the suggestion (back to the end of 2011) of adding regular expressions to Carnac?
Reading through older forum posts, I came across a tidbit I didn't realize -- namely that one can enter an expression when editing Tags!!
Using the expression
=regex(FilePath(), /#Opera\\([^\\]*)#/, 1)
gets Composer filled in correctly for all files! Based on directory structure, I've always populated opera and other classical music into an F:\Opera directory. The regular expression above picks off the first-level directory name.
(Carnac's templates, FWIW, appear to be anchored at the end of the filename. So, it wasn't handling the varying directory depth present within a given composer's folder.)
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One of the things that makes MC such a great tag editor is that it processes expressions right in the Tagging Window. It's very, very powerful as you have just found out. :)
Brian.