Prefix title with Composer LastName

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#1

Hello,

As the subject line says, I wish to prefix the title of a track with the last name of the composer, eg:
Composer tag contains: "Bach, Johann Sebastian"
Title: Sonata No. 1 in E-flat major BWV 525

Title should read: Bach: Sonata No. 1 in E-flat major BWV 525

Note: ALL Composer tags of my classical music tracks are populated with this configuration without exception: LastName, First and other names. Hyphenated names: Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai. The single comma in the name is key to identifying the Lastname the precedes it.

I am trying to learn the subtleties of regular expression, but if anyone can help me with this I would be very grateful.
Many thanks

#2

An action of the type "Format value" for TITLE
Format string: $regexp(%composer%,',.*',): %title%

#3

Just a side note: You know that you can't copy this TITLE tag to rename your filename because of the - at least for windows - illegal character : (colon) after your composer name?

#4

Thank you very much, Ohrenkino. Much appreciate it.

LyricsLover, thank for pointing it out! I'll just replace the colon with a hyphen in Ohrenkino's expression.

Thanks once again to both of you.

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#5

If the whole business is about renaming files, then I would not temper with the tag fields but use a corresponding mask to create just the filename.
And if the task is to separate pieces of information that do not really belong together, then a separator would be useful that is usually not part of everyday writing.
The hyphen, unfortunately, is.
A good approximation is usually the underscore _.

#6

Thankfully, this is not about remaining files (that's aleady accomplished) but about identifying the composer in track titles. Thanks all the same for clearing it up. It adds to my understanding.

#7

Sorry, renaming files .. not remaining files :roll_eyes:

#8

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