So, I have a ton of Grateful Dead live albums and they are labeled as yy/mm/dd - venue/release. I want to label them as yyyy-mm-dd now. Is there an easy automatic way to do this?
the 2-digit year is probably missing the part of "19" or "20"...
Select all the files
Use Convert>Tag-Tag for YEAR (I guess, you have not said where the date is stored)
Format string: $if($less($num(%year%,1),25),20,19)$replace(%year%,/,-)
Curious how you tag them. Is this in the year field, or part of the Title or Filename?
We've had some extensive discussions here about tagging Dead shows. There are several of us here.
Hello danilovita, I use Mp3tag to tag my AUDIO files in a Radio station, for certain files I have to place dates…
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I found on the WEB a Public Calendar in HTML, which I programmed as an execution file for Windows 7 to 11, I programmed this application in MP3tag, in the Tools (Example CTRL-4), there was a lot of orders, I kept the main date formats…
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Sorry, I didn’t specify it correctly. In this case, the date is in the album title. For example: '72/08/27 - Sunshine Daydream'. The show date is after the name of the release, which includes the year. I would like, besides adding the first two digits, to also replace the slash with a hyphen. So, it would look like '1972-08-27 - Sunshine Daydream'. Is it possible to do this automatically? Or would it only be possible to add the first two digits?
Oh, nice!
I name albums first with the date, followed by the release name or the source where I got the show, in the case of a bootleg, like SBD Miller or Hunter's Trix.
For example:
74/06/22 - Hunter's Trix 68
Or, in the case of an official release,
77/05/03 - Dave's Picks 52
I’d like to know if there’s an automatic way to change the names by adding the first two digits of the year, or if there’s an automatic way to replace the slash with a hyphen. Mostly to see if it would look better aesthetically. My Phish shows are named with the four-digit year and with hyphens, like
1998-07-16 - The Gorge
How do you organize your shows? Or do you have a link to other discussions about this here?
Ok I understand better what you want to do, I don't know how you could do it
Instead of %year% use %album%
I'm kinda weird about Dead shows, as compared to all my other music, mainly because I have so MUCH of it. I have master folders for Dick's Picks, Dave's Pick, Official Releases.
Within them, for the folder name, I put the album name first, then the date. EX: Dave's Picks 52 1983-09-11. Or Here Comes Sunshine May-June 1973.
Then for each song, I simply put the song title in Title, but the Album name is a copy of the folder name, so I can see which show is playing.
Pure bootlegs are different. They get a folder like: 1970-09-19 [SBD] Fillmore East
I can see where having the date first would be interesting, since I often look for something to play by date.
That's exactly it! Thanks!
I like to keep everything with the date first, because I use foobar to organize albums by year. So, for example, if I want to listen to something from 1973, I have everything there — official releases, Dick's, Dave's, box sets, bootlegs — organized in order by month and day. The only issue is with official releases that have multiple dates. In these cases, I either split the album by date if there are enough songs for it, like:
72/03/25 - Dick's Picks Vol. 30
72/03/28 - Dick's Picks Vol. 30
Or, if it's multiple consecutive days, I group them together and label it something like:
74/10/16-20 - The Grateful Dead Movie Soundtrack
I used to include the city as well, but I felt that added too much information in the title, and usually, the city is already on the album cover, so I don’t include it anymore.