I'm trying to create an action to clean up artist tags that have single letters. Like "b j Thomas", which I'd like to convert to "B.J. Thomas". I've tried to do this with a regex expression action: regex: "\b(\w\.?)\s?\b" replace with: "$upper($1). " The idea was to look for single letters \w fo…

Back with some less ugly solution, although not the single liner I wanted to write, sort of. This one does it in two steps, which could be combined into a nested $regexp(), but I refrained from doing so for better readability: regex 1: "(?<![\S])([A-Za-z])\.*(?=[ ])" replace: "$upper($1)." which …

[image] sundance: \b(\w\.?)\s?\b I don't think that replacing "a single letter followed by a space" with "same letter in uppercase followed by a dot and a space" will work as expected. Just think about ARTIST names like Cardi B -- > without dot at all B. B. Gabor --> with spaces after th…

You're right - you'll never catch every thinkable combination, but that was not my objective anyway. Even if you refer to "official/reliable" sources like Discogs, MusicBrainz or AllMusic, you'll find spellings different from what the artist wants it to be: "B. B. Gabor" is "B.B. Gabor" @ AllMusic…

If you really only want to search for x x and replace them with X.X. you could use: $regexp(%ARTIST%,'([a-zA-Z])\s([a-zA-Z])\s','\U$1.$2. ') This regex looks for characters from a-Z followed by space - and this two times. Then it returns the same characters in UPPERCASE followed by a dot and a sp…

Thanks for this. I could use two of them, each for 1 or 2 single letters. I'll let you know if I find a solution with a single regex eventually...

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Just copy & paste (or drag & drop) them. Or use the forums "upload"-button: [grafik] [image] Hints for asking Support Requests Support If you need support using Mp3tag, you can help the community members that are about to support you in finding a solution or…

[image] And I was wrong when I thought that \b was triggered on the apostrophe. Of course it was triggered on the single "n" after the apostrophe! (like the "s" in the above example in the word "varmint's"

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LyricsLover October 19, 2022, 2:04pm 8

Just copy & paste (or drag & drop) them.

Or use the forums "upload"-button:

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