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Title: Renaming files
Post by: sbdallas on September 30, 2011, 03:03:13 pm

I'm trying to create a preset for renaming files.  Here is what I have for the directory...

[Artist]\[Date] - [Album] If(IsEmpty([Disc #], 1), , (disc [Disc #]))

The goal is...

Pink Floyd\1973 - Dark Side of the Moon\
Pink Floyd\1979 - The Wall (disc 1)\

The problem is the last close parentheses.  This works fine when there is a disc #, but when there is not, in inserts an extra parentheses.

Pink Floyd\1973 - Dark Side of the Moon)\

If I take away one of the closing parentheses, then it works fine with no disc #, but when there is one, it lacks the closing parentheses...

Pink Floyd\1979 - The Wall (disc 1\

Does anyone know how to fix this?

Thanks,
Scott

Title: Re: Renaming files
Post by: MrC on September 30, 2011, 03:31:54 pm

Forward slash to escape the parens:

  /( and /)

Title: Re: Renaming files
Post by: Alex B on September 30, 2011, 03:32:21 pm

This should work:

[Artist]\[Date] - [Album] If(IsEmpty([Disc #], 1), , (disc [Disc #]/))

/ is the escape character that can be used when a character would be interpreted as a part of the expression code.

EDIT

MrC was faster...

Title: Re: Renaming files
Post by: KingSparta on September 30, 2011, 03:56:13 pm

This is what I Use

Directories Rule:

Base Path: D:\Music\

Rule: Mid([Artist])\[Artist]\[Album]

File Name Rule:

[Artist] - [Name]

Result

D:\Music\2\2pac\Loyal To The Game\2pac - Changes.mp3