I was thinking it would be helpful to set your own "standards" for how to replace invalid characters when renaming files from the tag.
For example, I have a lot of live shows on CD and when two songs flow into each-other I put a '>' after the title to show that it flows to the next song...
Then, everythime I rename it aways stops on every song with a '>' and askes me if it can use a space instead... I actaully would rather it use another character, such as ']'. Also when there is a '?' I would like to just remove it rather than replacing it with a space. It would be great if I can set something in mp3tag that says always replace '>' with ']' or '?' with [no space] or something similar.
The problem with using an action is that I want to keep the special characters in the title and just replace them with something relevent in the file name...
As far as using the $replace funtion that Dano mentioned, does anyone know how I could replace all special character in one line rather than just one at a time..
What I mean is, I would like to have the files named as artist - title with a replace that changes ">" to "]" and "/" to "-" and "?" to "", etc.
The only way I can think of right now would be creating an action set which copies the artist and the title into a new ID3v2 field, then replaces all invalid characters, generates a file name based on that field and finally deletes the field.
The Format values action type will help here.
Actions can also be used for renaming.
Just select FILENAME as field on "format value" action.
For multiple replaces in one line:
$replace($replace($replace(%title%,/,),?,),:,)
