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Title: Getting the first letter of an artist for CD Ripping
Post by: OverZealous on March 24, 2006, 07:06:17 pm

I have my music collection stored as:

\[first letter of artist name]\[artist]\[album]\...
example: \C\Coldplay\X&Y\ or \T\The Beatles\One\

Is there a way to have Media Center automatically store the files this way?  In other words, is there a way to get a substring of a field?  I figured out how to match this ([Artist]=[A"), but not how to specify it.

Thanks,
- Phil DeJarnett

Title: Re: Getting the first letter of an artist for CD Ripping
Post by: KingSparta on March 24, 2006, 07:29:11 pm

I have:

Option: Rename Files From Properties

[X] Directories:

Base Path: C:\My Music

Rules:

Mid([Artist], 0, 1)\[Artist]\[Album]\

[X] Filename:

[album] - [Artist] - [Name]

Title: Re: Getting the first letter of an artist for CD Ripping
Post by: OverZealous on March 24, 2006, 08:25:03 pm

Thank you!  Works like a charm!