Clean up filenames

[mamyllyn]

Hello,

I did use lot of this program back in the past and remember that there was some function to “clean all filenames”. So let’s say that you had a filename that was wrong like this:

”01-W.A.S.P. -Love Machine” and it should be “01 - W.A.S.P. - Love Machine” it did correct every filename with a regular impression. With this function it was easy to clean the whole library at once.

Is this function still available as I can not find it?

[ohrenkino]

@mamyllyn

every filename with a regular impression

I would use Convert>Tag-Filename and rewrite the filename in toto with e.g.
Format string: %track% - %artist% - %title%

[LyricsLover]

@mamyllyn

some function to “clean all filenames”.

Are you referring to the $validate function?

From the String functions part of the documentation:

$validate(x,y) returns the given file name/path x with all invalid characters /?*"<>|: replaced by the string y.

[ohrenkino]

@mamyllyn

”01-W.A.S.P. -Love Machine” and it should be “01 - W.A.S.P. - Love Machine”

If you want to replace a single hyphen with "space hyphen space", then a simple "Replace" should be enough.

Also, see here:

Add hyphen in filename for all tracks

Hello, I have quite basic question but let´s see what is the best way to do this. My tags are ok but the filename is like this: 01 W.A.S.P. - Never Say Die I would like to rename all filenames like this: 01 - W.A.S.P. - Never Say Die If I use quick action to replace the empty space in the start with - it adds this to every empty space. How could I make it so that it adds the hyphen only after the track number?

[mamyllyn]

Thank you once again for good hints!