This thread collects useful Filter expressions
If you have a useful filter expression, please post it here and give a short description of what it does.
These filter expressions can be used with the Mp3tag filter [F3].
Please look at http://help.mp3tag.de/main_filter.html for the documentation.
Notes
-All filter keywords must be uppercase.
-All operations are case insensitive*
Simple filter
All files without tags:
%_tag% IS ""
Files with flac and ID3v2 tags:
%_tag% HAS "flac id3v2"
Files with mp4 extension
%_extension% IS mp4
All files with a bitrate over 180
%_bitrate% GREATER 180
All files with embedded covers over 20 kbyte
%_cover_size% GREATER 20480
Filter with Scripting
Check if a field is longer than 4 characters:
"$len(%bpm%)" GREATER 4
Files with multipe artist tags:
"$meta_sep(Artist,\\)" HAS \\
Check if two fields have the same value:
"$if($eql(%artist%,%band%),yes,no)" IS yes
Check if the title is part of the filename:
"$ifgreater($strstr(%_filename%,%title%),0,yes,no)" IS yes
Filter with Regex (regular expression)
Track numbers that have number/number syntax
track MATCHES \d/\d
Filenames that start with two digits:
%_filename% MATCHES ^\d\d
Filenames that start with two digits not followed by another digit:
%_filename% MATCHES ^\d\d\D
Case sensitive filter:
title MATCHES (?-i)regex
Files with characters that are not in ISO-8859-1 in tag or filename
Filenames with 2 hyphens
"$len($regexp(%_filename%,'[^-]',))" IS 2
Filenames with at least 2 hyphens
"$len($regexp(%_filename%,'[^-]',))" GREATER 1
Track number is a single digit
track MATCHES ^\d$
Title tag starts with four capital letters
"$if($eql($regexp(%title%,^\u\u\u\u,),%title%),yes,no)" IS no