I have been successfully using a regular expression to change Artist, The to The Artist in the Artist field. (.*),\sthe$ Replace matches with The $1 Currently the: Album Artist Filed has: Artist, The The Filename field has: Track No Artist, The - Title And Artist filed has; The Artist I am w…

[image] DTW: Also I take it that it is ok that the Filename and Artist field can be The Artist while the Album Artist filed is still Artist, The. Yes. And it could be totally different e.g. for compilations. [image] DTW: I am assuming that changing any of the fields on mass does not make…

ok thankyou... Thinking I may just leave Filename and Album Artist as they are is and just have the Artist field as The Artist. Does not sound like there is anything to really to gain from doing it. Thanks again.

Just a philosophical question: If you include the artist's name in the filename ... wouldn't it be more straightforward to put the artist first, then the number and then the title? The way it is now, I would get all the number 1 tracks from all the artists, sorted by artist. I would have looked f…

Yes are right about possibly too much info. When I ripped I used the following dynamic naming for anout 8 years or more [IFVALUE]album artist,[album artist],[IFCOMP]Various Artists[][IF!COMP][artist][][][album][track] [artist] - [title] (which seems to be the default dbpoweramp dynamic naming) T…

Could I ask a question about mp3tag and how many files idealy you should make a change to or do a save on at one time.? For instance I have over 73000 tracks. When I do a mass change on all files e.g. converting Artist, The to The Artist ( or possibly any other action) I select the whole director…

[image] DTW: PC with 8GB RAM. As long as MP3tag is a 32-bit-application it can address no more than 4GB. If you treat a large amount of files, then I suggest that you turn on the library function (if you have not already done so). Otherwise you may experience "out of memory" errors rather so…

That was a great idea..14650 files instead of the who lot. Is my troubled mind that obvious :slight_smile: Thanks again.

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