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Title: [Solved, thanks to Ross] Adding suffix to song titles - help pls
Post by: MusicBringer on April 18, 2013, 04:04:09 am

Hello Folks I'm new here.
Elsewhere I have been in the habit of adding a suffix to my song titles (Name) to show where a live track was performed.
For example Hendrix playing Red House at Woodstock would be:
Red House [Live at Woodstock] Aug 1969.

Please tell me how I can add *[Live at Woodstock] Aug 1969* to the end of all the tracks on the Woodstock album.
Is there a tool perhaps.
Thanks,

Title: Re: Adding suffix to song titles - help pls
Post by: rossp on April 18, 2013, 07:21:45 am

Select a the song you want and then F2 to edit the Name field, type in

=[Name] [Live at Woodstock] Aug 1969

That should do it

If it works then select the remaining songs and it will do them all in one go.

Remember Ctrl Z will undo the changes.

Ross

Title: Re: Adding suffix to song titles - help pls
Post by: MusicBringer on April 18, 2013, 07:47:34 am

Thanks Ross, as you guessed I don't want to have to do all the tracks one at a time.

Unless I am missing something selecting all tracks and adding my [Live at Woodstock] Aug 1969 suffix, merely takes the name of first track and repeats it for all the others. Narh.

Title: Re: Adding suffix to song titles - help pls
Post by: rossp on April 18, 2013, 07:48:58 am

No the [Name] field will translate to the current track name being processed.

Ross

Title: Re: Adding suffix to song titles - help pls
Post by: MusicBringer on April 18, 2013, 08:44:07 am

Then I am doing something wrong  ?
Select all tracks
Press F2 and first row is highlighted.
Paste suffix after song title.

Result: all tracks are renamed to the first row name (with suffix). Grrhh.

Title: Re: Adding suffix to song titles - help pls
Post by: rossp on April 18, 2013, 08:47:44 am

Quote from: MusicBringer on April 18, 2013, 08:44:07 am

Then I am doing something wrong  ?
Select all tracks
Press F2 and first row is highlighted.
Paste suffix after song title.

Result: all tracks are renamed to the first row name (with suffix). Grrhh.

You have to paste =[Name] your text
or else the [Name] field will not be present and translate into the track name.

Ross

Title: Re: Adding suffix to song titles - help pls
Post by: rossp on April 18, 2013, 09:05:55 am

I should have explained a little more.

=[Name] [Live at Woodstock] Aug 1969

the =[Name] part is an MC field that will translate to the track name being manipulated.

the [Live at Woodstock] Aug 1969 is just text that is added after.

Ross

Title: Re: Adding suffix to song titles - help pls
Post by: MusicBringer on April 18, 2013, 09:30:24 am

Perfect Ross.
Thank You  :)

Title: Re: [Solved, thanks to Ross] Adding suffix to song titles - help pls
Post by: Samson on April 21, 2013, 10:39:05 pm

And I think if using parentheses:
=[Name] /(Live at Woodstock Aug 1969/) should put (Live at Woodstock Aug 1969) after the field name.  The forward slashes "escape" the parentheses which are meta-characters meaning something in the expression language.