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Hi all guys, I'd like to reorganize my music library but I'm a real noob when it comes to regexs.
Well, all my mp3s are in a big folder and are properly tagged.
I would like to put them in a directory structure like this:

+%Album artist%
.....+%Album title% (published in %year%)
..........+if there are more discs -> Disc %disc% of %totaldisc%,
_______if there's just one disc -> nothing
_______and in both cases after the two options above (after the comma) ->
_______track %track% of %totaltrack%. %actualfilenamewithext%
+%Composer%
.....+Composed in %year%
..........+%actualfilenamewithext%

I hope I've been clear the most. I want to underline that mp3s with %albumartist% do not have %composer% tag and viceversa, I hope this helps.

TIA to everybody willing to spend time for this (at least for me) challenge.

2

Your description was helpful, and there are properly tagged files.
So you may try following actiongroup.

  1. Choose a subset of your files to play around with and be aware to loose them.
  2. Choose a rootfolder where the new tree of files should be created, write it to action #1.
  3. Run the actiongroup (note: modify action #3 for test mode).
  4. Check if FILENAME_NEW contains the filepathes you need.
  5. If all looks good, then run the actiongroup (note: modify action #3 for reality mode).
  6. Ready.

Begin Actiongroup TEST

Action #1
Actiontype 5: Format tag field
Field: RF
Formatstring: O:\TEST\ROOTFOLDER (choose a rootfolder of your own)

Action #2
Actiontype 5: Format tag field
Field: FILENAME_NEW
Formatstring: $if(%composer%,%rf%\%composer%\%year%\%_filename_ext%,$ifgreater(%totaldisc%,1,%rf%\%albumartist%\%albumtitle%÷'('%year%')'\disc÷%disc%÷of÷%totaldisc%','÷track÷%track%÷of÷%totaltrack%.÷%_filename_ext%,%rf%\%albumartist%\%albumtitle%÷'('%year%')'\track÷%track%÷of÷%totaltrack%.÷%_filename_ext%))

Action #3
Actiontype 5: Format tag field
Field: _FILENAME
Formatstring: %_FILENAME% (should change nothing while testing)

Action #3
Actiontype 5: Format tag field
Field: _FILENAME
Formatstring: %FILENAME_NEW% (create new foldertree and move files)

Action #4
Actiontype 9: Remove fields
Fields to remove (semicolon separated): RF;FILENAME_NEW

Note: Replace one special character ÷ with one space character.
End Actiongroup TEST (4 Actions)

Good luck!
DD.20080318.1928.CET

3

Ok, you look pro with regexs, but I'm a user who wants to understand what he does and the more I play with the more problem rise.
Well the first problem comes from track numbers, the way you decribed produces results like xxy in the filename from xx/y looking tags. Then the discnumber doesn't show in case of multicd album.
I played a little and discovered that I can do the work even from the tag->filename panel, and digging in the forum I discovered several interesting formatting inputs.

%band%\%album% '('%year%')'$validate(%track%, of ). %_filename%

A good base for my job, but it lacks the condition band vs composer, the discnumber condition, plus I'd want it to show two-digit track numbers. Here's what I'm trying to obtain:

Normal music has the %band% field, so

%band%\%album% '('%year%')'*something for discnumber with the validate thing for removing the slash*$validate(%track%, of ). %_filename%

Example: "The Who\Quadrophenia (1973)\Disc 1 of 2, track 01 of 10. The Who - I Am the Sea.mp3"

Classical music has the %composer% field, so

%composer%\Composed in %year\%_filename%
That's easier, I just need to merge it with the above one.

4

There was no regexp involved, this was just plain use of your given tagfield names and two functions $if() and $ifgreater() and your given logic.

I know that the TRACK tag field can be formatted as 'n' (track) or somewhat like 'nn/nn' (track/totaltracks) (so DISCNUMBER too), but you've said that you have properly filled tags on which you have referred going along with your description.

And I thought you are familiar with Mp3tag and tagging in general, so you should know that a DISCNUMBER tag field is a user field, that you have to fill in with proper values (so far as I know).

Avoid such filenames, I do not think that they are sortable in correct order.

You may play around with the following actiongroup.

Begin Actiongroup TEST

Action #1
Actiontype 5: Format tag field
Field: TMP_RF
Formatstring: O:\TEST\ROOTFOLDER

Action #2
Actiontype 5: Format tag field
Field: TMP_T
Formatstring: $regexp(%track%,0*(\d+)/0*(\d+),$1)

Action #3
Actiontype 5: Format tag field
Field: TMP_TT
Formatstring: $regexp(%track%,0*(\d+)/0*(\d+),$2)

Action #4
Actiontype 5: Format tag field
Field: TMP_D
Formatstring: $regexp(%discnumber%,0*(\d+)/0*(\d+),$1)

Action #5
Actiontype 5: Format tag field
Field: TMP_DT
Formatstring: $regexp(%discnumber%,0*(\d+)/0*(\d+),$2)

Action #6
Actiontype 5: Format tag field
Field: TMP_FN
Formatstring: $if(%composer%,%TMP_RF%\%composer%\%year%\%filename_ext%,$ifgreater(%TMP_DT%,1,%TMP_RF%\%artist%\%album%÷'('%year%')'\D.%TMP_DT%.%TMP_D%''T.%TMP_TT%.%TMP_T%'_'%filename_ext%,%TMP_RF%\%artist%\%album%÷'('%year%')'\T.%TMP_TT%.%TMP_T%''%_filename_ext%))

Action #7
Actiontype 5: Format tag field
Field: _FILENAME
Formatstring: %TMP_FN%

Action #8
Actiontype 9: Remove fields
Fields to remove (semicolon separated): TMP_RF;TMP_T;TMP_TT;TMP_D;TMP_DT;TMP_FN

Note: Replace one special character ÷ with one space character.
End Actiongroup TEST (8 Actions)

DD.20080319.1621.CET

5

Oh yeah, now I've understood the logic behind that all! Works perfectly now, thanks!

6

A simpler solution (since classical music mp3s are less I can select'em by myself):

%band%$validate(%album%,-) (%year%)[\Disco [$num(%discnumber%,1)]][$num(%track%,2)]. %_filename%

%composer%\%year%\%_filename%