Set Genre to root folder name

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Sorry for being a newbie. And I did try to find a solution in the forum, but I did not succeed.

Here's my (simple) problem:

My music folder structure is like

s:\acoustic guitar\artist1\album1
s:\acoustic guitar\artist1\album2
s:\pop\artist2\album1
s:\pop\artist3\album1\disc1
s:\pop\artist3\album1\disc2

etc

Now I want to assign the root folder name to the Genre tag. So "acoustic guitar" and "pop" in this example. I already have the full path assigned to the Genre tag. I probably have to use expressions to strip "s:" from the Genre string and all the characters past the second "". But how do I do that?

Really appreciate MP3TAG, very powerfull...

2

There are several methods to reach the goal ...
by using the Mp3tag scripting language ...
here is one proposal from the bag of tricks ...

Apply a group of two actions ...

Action 1: Format value Field: GENRE Formatstring: $replace(%_path%,'\','\\\\') Action 2: Format value Field: GENRE Formatstring: $meta(GENRE,1)

... or ...
apply one action ...

Action 1: Format value Field: GENRE Formatstring: $regexp(%_path%,'^.+?\\\\(.+?)\\\\.*$','$1')

... or ...
apply one action ...

Action 1: Format value Field: GENRE Formatstring: $left($cutLeft(%_path%,$strchr(%_path%,'\')),$sub($strchr($cutLeft(%_path%,$strchr(%_path%,'\')),'\'),1))

... or ...
apply a group of four actions ...

Action 1: Format value Field: GENRE Formatstring: %_path% Action 2: Format value Field: GENRE Formatstring: $cutLeft(%GENRE%,$strchr(%GENRE%,'\')) Action 3: Format value Field: GENRE Formatstring: $left(%GENRE%,$strchr(%GENRE%,'\')) Action 4: Format value Field: GENRE Formatstring: $trimRight(%GENRE%,'\')

DD.20150507.1852.CEST, DD.20150507.2002.CEST

3

Perhaps you assign the genre part of the filename again and leave out the stripping.
Use the function Convert>Filename-Tag
Format string: %genre%\%dummy%\%dummy%

4

Great! The very first offered option already works perfect for me. Thanks for taking the time! I also like the alternatives, gives some insight in how this all works.