Artist/Title Bulk Tag Using RegEx

[brooza]

Hello all,

I have a bunch of mp3s that don't have tags on them. The way the files are named are in the following format:

Artist - Title.mp3

What I'd like to do is write two regular expressions:

1. To add the Artist tag by looking for all characters before " - " in the filename.
2. To add the Title tag looking for all characters after " - " in the filename

Can this be done? If so how would you do this using the Mp3tag application? And can it be applied to multiple files at once?

Thanks,
Dan

[Florian]

It can be done See this topic from the #howto:faq-frequently-asked-questions for details:

Converters to rename files or to import tags

How to import parts of the filename into the tag? Importing tags for filenames and directory names can be done by using the [Converter > Filename - Tag] Converter > Filename - Tag. The basic concept is the notion of a format string which describes the structure of the name to import from. The format string is built of either standard text (e.g., Music), placeholders (such as %artist%, %title%, ...), or backslash characters \ that denote directory structures. Here is an example that imports tag…

It'd be %artist% - %title% in your case.