File renaming question

Support
#1

Here's a tricky one for all you experts! (Of which I am most certainly not one :wink: )

How can I rename a file such as:

02-Accompagnato (Tenor). Comfort ye my people.flac

so it becomes simply

02-Comfort ye my people.flac

i.e. remove all characters up to and including the space after the dot, but leave the first 3 characters (the track number) intact?

And another one: :slight_smile:

How to rename e.g.

15-Thou, Merab, first in birth (Recit. Saul, Merab) - My soul rejects (Air. Merab) - See, with what a scornful air - Ah, lovely youth (Air. Michal).flac

to be

15-Thou, Merab, first in birth - My soul rejects - See, with what a scornful air - Ah, lovely youth.flac

i.e. remove all brackets and their contents, and leave only one space either side of the hyphen?

Possibly I'm asking the impossible, but many thanks in advance anyway!!

#2

Set Filter: %_FILENAME% MATCHES "^.+-.+.\s+.+$"
Converter Filename - Filename
Mask old filename: %1-%2. %3
Mask new filename: %1-%3

Set Filter: %_FILENAME% MATCHES "^.+-.+\s+(.+)\s+-\s+.+\s+(.+)\s+-\s+.+\s+-\s+.+\s+(.+)$"
Converter Filename - Filename
Mask old filename: %1-%2 (%3) - %4 (%5) - %6 - %7 (%8)
Mask new filename: %1-%2 - %4 - %6 - %7

DD.20100517.1858.CEST

#3

Thanks very much, that works a treat!

Sorry, but just one more question regarding my second query: is there an expression which will work however many sets of brackets there are, wherever they occur in the filename? e.g. one that will work for, e.g.:

13-Birth and fortune I despise (Air. David).flac

as well as

15-Thou, Merab, first in birth (Recit. Saul, Merab) - My soul rejects (Air. Merab) - See, with what a scornful air - Ah, lovely youth (Air. Michal).flac

#4

This might be possible ...
Set Filter: %_FILENAME% MATCHES "\s(.+?)(\s|$)"
Action "Format Value"
Field: _FILENAME
Formatstring: $trim($regexp(%_FILENAME%' ','(\s(.+?)\s)',' '))

DD.20100517.2006.CEST

#5

Detlev, you are a genius! Thank you!