Hello all,
Was wondering if anyone here could help me out with a little RegEx. 
I have several track names with artist and title only seperated by a dash and would like to use RegEx to seperate them, because it allows me to use another criteria; namely if the words that are being seperated are of at least 3 letters in size.
The reason i want to do this is because some artist names actually use a dash and i don't want to mess those up (eg. D-Sturb).
But in my case i have a few track names that are named: "artist name-title of the song (album)"
and i would like to use a RegEx expression to identify the dash in these cases (eg. 3 letters or more on both sides of the dash).
Can anyone help me with that? 
Perhaps not the most elegant solution
Action of the type "Replace with regular expression" for whatever field you have
Search string: (...)-(...)
Replace string: $1 - $2
From "D-Sturb-The best of"
to "D-Sturb - The best of"
If you want to separate artist from title I would not use a hyphen (or even a plain blank) but a character that is usually not part of everyday writing - like the underscore _
.
So it may be better to use
Replace string: $1_$2
Example to try out how it can work.
$regexp('abc D-Sturb def name-title xyz','(\b...+\b)-(\b...+\b)','$1 - $2')
==> "abc D-Sturb def name - title xyz"
DD.20180426.1143.CEST
Hi guys,
Thanks for the tips so far. I tried both but they do not seem to have the desired result.
On a sidenote, i also want to use Metamorphose 2 to change the folder name (which has exactly the same 'issue').
I'd still like to use the dash to seperate both names, but i want to introduce spaces before and after.
Here's an example of a few names... you can already tell the first name is tricky, because i would not like to mess up the artist name (so not just D-sturb, but there are various names like that). 

[Edit]
Just noticed that the labelnames/release names at the back should also not be changed either....
Too complicated for me... 
Did you know that you can rename the folder with MP3tag?
So right now it looks to me as though you are fiddling about with the filename.
As MP3tag is a tagging program, you should first fill the tag fields with data.
And then you can rename the files with the contents of the field variables and / or string constants.
An import into the fields for artist, title and release should make it much easier.