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More => Old Versions => JRiver Media Center 20 for Windows => Topic started by: Groundhog on September 26, 2014, 03:09:30 pm

Title: Update Tags with Expression?
Post by: Groundhog on September 26, 2014, 03:09:30 pm

Is there a direct way to update tags using an expression? I couldn't find a way to do this directly and was wondering if, being new to MC, I had missed something.

I used DVD Audio Extractor to rip high res audio tracks from a DVD-Audio disc. That program populated the name tags and file names with a leading track number. So, the track 1 name tag is "01 Prologue." I don't like having track numbers in the name tag, so after importing into MC20, I wanted to remove the leading 3 characters from the name tag for each file.

I was able to find a workaround: I added a calculated library field with the expression removeleft([Name],3). Then used the Move/Copy Fields command to copy the calculated value to the Name field.

Is there a way to do this directly? If not, would this be a useful feature?

Thanks,
-Brent

Title: Re: Update Tags with Expression?
Post by: kensn on September 26, 2014, 03:13:36 pm

put = in front of the expression and put it in the tag field.

Ken

Title: Re: Update Tags with Expression?
Post by: Groundhog on September 27, 2014, 09:33:26 am

Quote from: kensn on September 26, 2014, 03:13:36 pm

put = in front of the expression and put it in the tag field.

Ken

Hmmm. It seems the obvious didn't occur to me.

That worked - and was much faster than my workaround.

Thanks, Ken.

Title: Re: Update Tags with Expression?
Post by: kensn on September 27, 2014, 10:21:59 am

Thanks for letting us know. Glad it Worked. ;)

Ken

Title: Re: Update Tags with Expression?
Post by: glynor on September 27, 2014, 12:02:00 pm

If you need to do this regularly, you can set up a Tag on Import rule (http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=68462.10), so long as you rip to a specific directory.

See also:
http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=92092.msg633953#msg633953