Hello dear Mp3tag community, I purchased old Pioneer CDJ-200 turntables to practice mixing in my bedroom. It supports MP3 CDs, I burned a few and found out that the players stop with an 8304 error when the filename or any of the ID3 tag fields (mostly Artist, Title and Genre) contains "&" symbol. A…

[image] ohrenkino: $regexp(%initialkey%'^(\d.)$,0$1) should read $regexp(%initialkey%,^(\d.)$,0$1)

[image] tomy91: that replaces "&" with "and" anywhere in the filename Use an action of the type "Format value" for _FILENAME Format string: $replace(%_filename%,&,and) I would not replace the & in the tags. If you create new filenames for that player, enclose the whole pattern that you use…

[image] tomy91: INITIALKEY contains values like "1A", "5B", "11A". How to convert them with a "0" in front Use an action of the type "Format value" for INITIALKEY Format string: $regexp(%initialkey%,^(\d.)$,0$1)

Thanks, mate, will give it a try this evening. [image] ohrenkino: I would not replace the & in the tags. Can I ask why? I have to do it to avoid error on my CDJs. I see no problem there because I'm editing the filename and tags not for my original files in library but the copies made only fo…

I just fancy to keep the data in the tags as close to the original as possible... Filenames have so many restrictions in respect to valid characters that the only criterion that they have to fulfill is: be unique. So why should any other tag "suffer" from the restrictions for the filenames?

Unfortunately the error appears even with a good filename (without "&") if there's "&" somewhere in the artist, title, album or genre field. But as I said - no problem cause I'm creating copies to edit, burn and delete afterwards.

I think if you substitute %_filename% with %_all% then the action should replace all ampersands everywhere. If that does not work, use %_tag% for all the tag data.

Replacing "&" with "and" works excellent. But [image] ohrenkino: $regexp(%initialkey%'^(\d.)$,0$1) this one writes [ SYNTAX ERROR IN FORMATTING ]` in the field. I'm too dumb to debug. :frowning:

[image] ohrenkino: with %_all% ...%_tag% for I have to correct this: It is only possible to use _TAG or _ALL for actions like "Replace" or "Replace with regular expression". Using %_tag% only shows the tag version.

Thanks for the quick and detailed help @ohrenkino , I got what (I thought) I needed! In the end I ruined few more CDs to find out that "&" wasn't the actual problem. Pioneer CDJ-200 and possibly other players from the same generation doesn't like MP3 files that have Xing stream embedded. I solved it…

I'm having trouble finding the option to change the "/" characters to "," - can anyone help me do this?

Replace specific character in tags and filename

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ohrenkino October 28, 2024, 6:08am 13

What have you done so far?
Are really treating / and not \\?
For the latter, see