Hello there, I have files with poor data and they need fixing. I am thinking that there must be a way using actions and it will involve guess values, but I am not sure how exactly to achieve what I want: Firstly, as in this screenshot: [image] I need mp3tag to extract the title and artist fr…

Thank you for your comprehensive reply. I have semi got this working. What it does at the moment is correct the artist by extracting from the filename, put this into the artist and albumartist fields, change square brackets with round. I want to create a %feat_artist% tag so that this can be extra…

[image] sheepdisease: I don't know why this is. I think the %track in that action is missing a % - it should be %track%

Thanks for your reply. There was a % missing but adding it didn't fix the problem. Still can't figure out how to fix it.

You also had the erroneous regular expressions in the list of actions (cf. actions 2 and 3). If you enjoy building complex action groups, please ensure step by step that each action is performing the changes you envision.

Thanks for your reply Florian. Before integrating into this action group, I tested action 2 and 3 and they do work. It's something later on that isn't working. I also need to try and cover instances where there is no artist in the filename but one does feature in the artist field, like in the exam…

It's probably due to to a non-matching format string at "Guess values". Look, Cold Water (feat. Justin Bieber & M0) doesn't include "%track%", " feat.", still has the featuring artist in parentheses and so on. So it really doesn't match your format string %track% %title% feat. %feat_artist% From …

Extracting title and artist from title using action and then reorganise the display order in the title

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ohrenkino February 9, 2019, 8:31pm 2

Use an action of the type "Guess value"
Source: %title%
Pattern: %artist% - %title%

I think you already got a fair number of hints how to get along with brackets and stuff:

and/or

and if this is not enough, try the search word "move feat" in this forum.