I have a series of albums that have the same pattern that I'd like removed, but I don't know how to edit it smoothly in one move.
Here's an example of what I'd like edited:
Editions Montparnasse 2000 MP 018 - Jazz Impressions 2 (1973)
I'd like the zero before 18 removed and the year in parenthesis at the end also removed. So I have characters in the middle and at the end that need to be edited. I could eliminate the zero using combined $left and $right commands in Tag - Tag, but how do I also remove the year at the end?
Which field is this?
If you want to delete data like
don't you want to store that data in the field YEAR?
In the album field. Also moving the year to the year field is something I hadn't considered, but if it's deleted from the album name I can just enter it manually in the year field.
Why don't manually when mp3tag can do it for you. Using the Action - Guess Value:
Source: ALBUM
Pattern: %dummy% (%year%)
Then you can remove that from the album field and edit the number out as well.
You could do both in 1 go:
Using the Action - Guess Value:
Source: %ALBUM%
Pattern: %album% (%year%)
You could use an action of the type "Replace" for ALBUM
Search string: _0
Replace with: _
where the underscore here represents a space character that otherwise would not show.
And if you want to do it all in one move:
Action of the type "Guess value"
Source: $replace(%album%, 0, )
Target pattern: %album% (%year%)
I did not know that one could use the $replace function when identifying the source in an action. Definitely makes it faster with a single step. Fantastic!
"Guess values" features both: a generating format string and a matching format string.
The generating one is the source where you can use variables, string constants and scripting functions to create the source string.
And this string is - like the _FILENAME for Convert>Filename-Tag - the source that you structure in the matching format string of the target pattern.
See also the documentation on format strings: