auto retrieval of year from freedB

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Ok, here's my 2nd question.
Many of my old ripped CD folders lack the year, unfortunately.
Is there a way to auto-fill in the year in all files without changing the rest, by calling up an action or something ?
Thanks for any help,
susiwong

2

you can take one of the many existing web sources scripts in the forum and edit it to write only the year.
open it with a text editor.

  1. EASY WAY:

write at the end of the script:
set "artist"
set "album"
set "tracks"
...
for every tag you want to keep untouched. important: use "tracks" instead of "track" & "title".

  1. MORE COMPLICATED WAY (but maybe the script runs faster)
    delete everything in the script which is does not belong to the year tag.
    keep only:
    the index part of the script which finds the album in the web.
    the necessary parts to find & write the year.
3

Thanks, sounds promising.
I've been using web sources before, without getting the modular concept.

Unfortunately I'm not experienced enough to correctly edit the src myself.
Care to help ?

from the freedb2_b.src found here in the forum

Cheers,
susiwong

4

keep everything above "[ParserScriptAlbum]=..."
replace everything from "[ParserScriptAlbum]=..." to the end with the following code:

[ParserScriptAlbum]=...
# ###################################################################
# A L B U M
# ###################################################################
# Uncomment the following line if you want to write some debug output
#debug "on" "c:\\\\debug_freedb2_B.html" "10"

# Year
findline "DYEAR="
findinline "DYEAR="
outputto "Year"
sayrest

save the .src file under a new name, e.g. freedb2_b_YEAR_ONLY.src to keep the old file if needed.

6

Thanks again, the script works !

In case anybody's interested :

Really appreciate your help,
cheers,
susiwong