if %_parent_directory% is the grandparent folder, what would the string be for great grandparent (the one directly above that) ??
cant seam to find this info and its exactly what i need
Could you give a real example for the path and the use-case?
i have all these folders that im editing rn but a lot of them separated the albums into multiple artists like this with all of them having album folder>track in them
usually i can just open one folder at a time for the few atrocious offenders like the ie: ‘Vylet Pony’ folder and use convert>tag-filename “%album%\%discnumber%$num(%track%,2) - %title%” and it’ll pull all the albums out and reorganize them (it’ll leave all these as now empty folders but im okay w/ that, and can clean that a lot easier)
i cant use %artist%\ or %albumartist%\ in the front of that string bc thats the info thats incorrectly tagged atm and wouldnt change the folders
this session there’s a lot of artists that have this issue and it would be a pain to open each folder if there was a better mass re-organize syntax i could use
since all of these are the grandparent folder and the correct file path naming i want them in is the great grandparent in my mind thats the info i need
To address some parts of the (fully qualified) filename (that includes the path) and leave out others, try the use of %dummy%
E.g. if you have a path like Abba\Arrival\02 - Dancing Queen.mp3
then you could address "Abba" in Convert>Filename-Tag with
%artist%\%dummy%\%dummy%
i dont think that helps me very much
i get that could use %dummy% if the file name and album is tagged correctly, i dont have to use the big string at the end, ty
though the issue is that the folders currently look like
D:> Music\editing\Vylet Pony\Vylet Pony, Chi Chi\Glitter\108 - The Magic of Mischief.flac
D:> Music\editing\Vylet Pony\Vylet Pony, Namii\Glitter\112 - Twinkle.flac
D:> Music\editing\Vylet Pony\Vylet Pony, Mystery Music\Horse Friends\105 - Hearth’s Warming.flac
ect *with multiple artist folders also in the editing folder that have the same type of extra folders in them
the main conflict in re-organizing seems to be that AlbumArtist tag is wrong on all of them
bc if it was correct the fix would probably just be “%albumartist%\%dummy%\%dummy%” ??
and if i did %artist% it wouldnt change anything bc of the multiple artists on the track
is there a syntax that pulls just the first one? theres also some tracks where the main artist actually comes second or third, so i doubt that would help my situation very much
i would like to be able to just open the editing folder and have a string that would pull all the albums out into the folder above it. then the artist would now be the grandparent folder instead of the great-grandparent folder and i can use %_parent_directory% to fix the albumartist mistag
im guessing a great-grandparent folder string doesnt exist?
in that case ill go back to clicking on every folder.
You are right.
In general: you can only rename the current folder, addressed by _DIRECTORY. Renaming that folder would move all files in that folder to the new location.
If you use an absolute path, then you can move the current folder to more or less any level in the hierarchy, even to the great-grandfather level.
To rename _DIRECTORY, do not use Convert>Tag-Filename but use Convert>Tag-Tag
The format string must not contain any reference to the filename but only the path component.
I don't know what your tag fields look like and how they could be used to help.
It may be an idea to to move all folders to a new branch like
D:\Music\new structure\%albumartist%\%album%
Then delete the old structure under "editing" and rename "new structure" to the preferred name.
I would anyway first correct the tags. How do you want the artist and the albumartist look in your examples.
Are the incorrect albumartists and artists always separated by a comma+whitespace from the part that you don't want?
Do you have artists/albumartists that have a comma in their name like "Earth, Wind & Fire"?
As this is also reflected in the folder names, I do not see a lot of alternatives than to get at least one of the artist fields, probably the ALBUMARTIST right.