Hello, imagine this situation: I have loaded some files into MP3TAG. All editing is done, the files are tagged as I want them. Especially the track ids are now sorted (1..n). But I have left some files with exact the same artist and title. Example: track1: aritst a - song x track2: artist b -…

here something to read on the topic: [image] Duplicate File Names Support I am using the Tag to Filename Conversion to rename files. Sometimes there are dulicates and Mp3tag tells me that it Cannot create a file when that file already exists. Can Mp3tag automatically make …

@ohrenkino , yes, right, the problem is the same. But no solution so far... The problem is that the part you wrote in the other topic "as the first file gets created according to the new pattern, you will easily be able to filter/sort those that have not been renamed" does often but not always help…

you could add a character like 2 underscores to the existing filename. Then start the renaming process. Only the first one of the duplicates will get the intended name. All the others will keep the 2 underscores. You could then filter for these characters and see the files where the renaming faile…

Actually (at least in my cases) I know already it is NOT a duplicate, the analysis is done already and I know it is a remix/live/extended/whatever version. The info about that might (if known) be part of the comment (or other fields), but in some cases I only know it is a different version, but not …

[image] WS64: The info about that might (if known) be part of the comment So you could add that information to the title and avoid the duplication ... To modify a field (e.g. artist) use Converter>Tag-Tag for ARTIST Format string: %artist%_ To modify the filename use Converter>Filename-Fil…

Like I said, it might be known. In some (many!) cases it's not.

You could filter for the files where there is a comment: comment PRESENT Then you could check whether there are certain keywords that indicate a special version and filter for these, e.g. comment HAS Radio version and then append the title only for the filtered ones.

Same answer, there might be a comment. Or not. But actually I never checked how the filters work. Maybe I can filter on files where filename is not %artist% - %title%?

[image] WS64: Maybe I can filter on files where filename is not %artist% - %title%? Generally, yes. But as there are probably a couple of characters in the tag data that are invalid for filenames, you will get a number of false positives. [image] WS64: Same answer, there might be a comme…

No, they do not have a comment (at least not all of them), so that does not help at all. But the filters work: "$if($eql(%artist% - %title%,%_filename%),yes,no)" IS no But the filter is always on (even thought I unchecked "Auto-appply filter", is it possible to keep the filter visible but only ap…

Rename duplicate titles/filenames

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ohrenkino July 23, 2021, 6:44am 2

here something to read on the topic: