Delete X-number of characters

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1

Hi there,

I have tons of files with numbers at the beginning, for example:

  1. The Vaccines - Wetsuit

Sadly, the tags are the same:

Artists: 316.The Vaccines
Song: Wetsuit

Is there any way of automatically deleting in a batch the first 5 characters of the files —just leaving the “The Vaccines”— for then creating the tags —or vice versa?

Thxs!

2

Yes. But you need to tell us, what exactly do you want to achieve:
a) renaming only the filenames (and losing some information)
or
b) filling the fields with all parts of the filename and then rename the filenames

Then we need to know if all your tracks has the same naming like
316 is the TRACK number?
The Vaccines is the ARTIST?
Wetsuit ist the TITLE?

If you really want to delete x characters, there are several scripting functions like for example

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3

Thxs for your reply!

I go for (1), because then I just “import tag from filenames”. Yep, all the tracks have the same structure, in the way you suggest.

4

To import your filename structure, you can use the
Format string:
%dummy%. %artist% - %title%

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if you want to ignore the first numbers until the dot.

If you want to import the number in front of the dot as TRACK content you could use:
%track%. %artist% - %title%

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5

Wow, it works perfectly.

Thank you!