Renaming folders to Album when there is definite and indefinite articles

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I'm renaming audiobook folders and want to shift "The", "An", and "A" to after the rest of the title (Album tag). So, e.g.:

"The Evolution of Desire - David Buss" would get renamed to:
"Evolution of Desire, The - David Buss"

I'm almost there! This is what I'm doing:

  1. Drag folder into Mp3tag
  2. press alt-5 to bring up to rename menu (tag-tag)
  3. Then type in _DIRECTORY (use the underscore and then all CAPS).
  4. Use something like this for the expression:
    $regexp(%album%,^(The|An|A)\s(.+)$,$2',' $1) - %artist%

For some reason this expression results in an extra space at the beginning. I get:
" Evolution of Desire, The - David Buss".

This one has been driving me crazy.

2

I had a space before the $regexp that I just now noticed! Mystery solved.

3

I‘d recommend the intermediate step of storing and reviewing the string in %albumsort%.