Swap parts and space out words

albe · 2008-04-16 13:04

Hi All,

First of all must thank Denis for a splendid program. Am a new user but already the program is indispensable.

Secondly would much appreciate any help on the following:

I have many hundreds of mp3 files (within various sub folders) the names of which are made up of Song Title_Artist.mp3 (e.g. Help_Beatles.mp3). What I like to do is to
batch change them around to Artist - Song Title.mp3 (Artist space Dash space Song Title.mp3, eg Beatles - Help.mp3). Can this be done and if so, how?

Many thanks
albe

krtek · 2008-04-16 14:43

Hi,
If it's always one and only one "_" sign which separates Title from Artist you can use RegEx Rule.

Expression: (.+)_(.+)
Replace: $2 - $1

Skip extention.

Well, that's one of the easiest problems you can solve with ReNamer :-D
Wanna know more about Regular Expressions -> see ReNamer manual or RegEx tutorial.

eR@SeR · 2008-04-16 14:53

Hi and welcome albe

Your "demand" is like mine naming for mp3s including rule "Capitalize Every Word".

It is possible to do what you wanted...but I can help you just for the first part and that is:
Add Replace rule, Find "_", replace "spacedashspace". Now you can set would it be "all", "first" or "last" in the filename depending of words like Beatles_Let_It_Be.mp3. If is this case, then you set it to be the "first" then you can add CleanUp rule and check "_" character.

Second part will be to add RegEx rule which, unfortunately, I can't help you because I don't know how to use it . You can read in user manual (page 16) or you can go to www.regular-expresions.info for more details. Good luck

Last edited by eR@SeR (2008-04-16 14:54)

eR@SeR · 2008-04-16 14:58

Nice work krtek . You were faster than me . Unfortunately, I can't understand RegEx but I'll try to overcome...

krtek · 2008-04-16 15:00

eR@SeR wrote:

Second part will be to add RegEx rule which, unfortunately, I can't help

He he,
I was 10 mins faster .
And the best thing about RegEx's is that you need only one step.
Cheers.

Ps. And now you were quicker :-D

Last edited by krtek (2008-04-16 15:51)

eR@SeR · 2008-04-16 15:04

Heh you right. This rule is really powerful. Thanks for sharing knowledge . Cheers

eR@SeR · 2008-04-16 15:19

Can somebody help me about this state?

WideCharUpper, WideCharLower ---> to be like Wide Char Upper, Wide Char Lower

Script or RegEx whatever. Thanks is advance

albe · 2008-04-16 16:03

Hi All,

Thanks Krtek and everybody else. Absolute stars.
I can see that I'll have to learn RegEx to unleash the full power of the program.

Many thanks again for the help.

krtek · 2008-04-16 16:16

eR@SeR wrote:

WideCharUpper, WideCharLower ---> to be like Wide Char Upper, Wide Char Lower

First I thought that Regex's won't do that (at least not in nice and clean way, no matter how many words you'll have in a row). But they're better than I thought .

Here you go:
Expression: "([A-Z])([a-z]+)"
Replace: "$1$2 " -> note the space at the end

All you have to do is tick CaseSensitive (without that it won't work).
And add second rule to delete the space at the very end.

See you soon eR@SeR!

eR@SeR · 2008-04-16 17:05

Who knows what else you can do with RegEx

Everything you said is correct, but I think that there is a better solution for this situation. Of course I don't know it, but we will see what others have to say.

Anyway, nice work and thank you for such fast respond . Keep going in that direction .
I'll try too

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