I use MP3TAG to move content into the library to a consistent structure.
I am building 1 action to 'rule them all', so any and all content is moved into the library in a consistent way.
I like to store artists with 'The ' in front with ', The' in the back
W:\Music\Artist, The...
Discnumbers 1 or 1\X - i want to add to end of album Folder path (CD1) and ideally have the Albumname as root.
W:\Music\Artist(Year) Album with two discs
W:\Music\Artist(Year) Album with two discs\Album with two disc (CD1)\tracks
W:\Music\Artist(Year) Album with two discs\Album with two disc (CD2)\tracks
(i'll need to handle various use cases of no disc number, discnumber alone, discnumber\totaldiscs.)
using some advice on here on regular expressions i added a conditional option to the tag to filename function, for the artist bit.
W:\Music$IF($eql($left(%albumartist%,4),The ),$regexp(%albumartist%,^The (.+),'$1, The'),%albumartist%)(%year%) %album%$num(%track%,2). %title%
however it turns out that $regexp has a conditional characteristic. This also works
W:\Music$regexp(%albumartist%,^The (.+),'$1, The')(%year%) %album%$num(%track%,2). %title%
but i guess $regexp can only offer conditional logic on the characters in expression. When i build this out for 'Discnumbers in path / (CD1)' ill need to use the $IF function again...
has anyone done this already or got their own single action that formats all content into paths to a set criteria based on such matters as the above eg discnumbers, to give me ideas on best practise/options.
thank you