Help with "Convert Filename - Tag"

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Hi!

MP3TAG supporter and longtime user here, posting for the first time! :slightly_smiling_face:

I've searched the forum, but couldn't find any solution to my question.

I'm trying to use the feature "Convert Filename - Tag" to fix my tags.

All my music albums are named using the following naming convention:

%albumartist% - %album% (%year%)\%track% - %artist% - %title%

(Which is the "Format string" I'm using as well)

Mostly it works fine:

Example Artist - Album Name (2024)\01 - Example Artist Feat. Another Artist - The Title Of The Song.flac

  • %albumartist% = Example Artist
  • %album% = Album Name
  • %year% = 2024
  • %track% = 01
  • %artist% = Example Artist Feat. Another Artist
  • %title% = The Title Of The Song

But sometimes the album name contains parentheses and I want to keep those in the %album% tag:

Example Artist - Album Name (Additional Name) (2024)\01 - Example Artist Feat. Another Artist - The Title Of The Song.flac

  • %albumartist% = Example Artist
  • %album% = Album Name
  • %year% = Additional Name) (2024
  • %track% = 01
  • %artist% = Example Artist Feat. Another Artist
  • %title% = The Title Of The Song

In these cases I've to fix the %album% and %year% tags manually (or with tag - tag).

I would like to avoid this. Is it possible?

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I doubt that - as the opening and closing brackets are no unique separator. You would have to use an action of the type "Guess value" with a preparation with a regular expression.

3

A workaround would be if you replace the opening and closing bracket in the few foldernames from
Example Artist - Album Name (Additional Name) (2024)
to
Example Artist - Album Name [Additional Name] (2024)

Then - as @ohrenkino already wrote - the brackets for the "Additional Name" would be unique to differentiate from the brackets around "2024" and you would get
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4

You could change your format string so that you only have to change the album-tag (You would have to add a closing bracket in ALBUM):
%albumartist% - %album%) (%year%)\%track% - %artist% - %title%