So I have had issues in the past with ID3 Tags becoming corrupted and with my ratings from iTunes being lost, so I decided to write a script a while back that would store all of the most important tags in the file name in an abbreviated format, just in case I'm on a machine that has limited space fo…

[image] meesterguyperson: with my ratings from iTunes being lost iTunes does not write the ratings to the files and does not read them from the files. Does your script cater for characters that are invalid for the underlying file system and has a markup scheme so that the special characters …

Yup, that I found was the issue with iTunes, and it's why I started prepending my ratings to the title field, since iTunes does in that case alter the file. The script handles certain special characters in #11 of the script. For example, : is represented by -- and " is represented by ~~. Can add w…

[image] meesterguyperson: Wouldn't mind uploading the script file, but I didn't see anything in the editor to allow for attachments see this post: [image] Album tracks load and play in incorrect order Support Are your tracknames sorted alphabetically (ignoring the t…

Both disc numbers and track number use zero padding up to the length of total discs / tracks. For example, if there are 20 discs and 200 tracks on a disc, you might have a track with the following: 01o20_001o200... Some mp3 players rely on file names to sort things and without the zero padding you…

Formatting script that puts all the most important info in the file name

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ohrenkino March 28, 2021, 7:23pm 4

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