Tagging Artist & Album from file path

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Hi!

I store my MP3's like this:
Genre/Artist/Year Album/Track Title.mp3

Is there a way to automatically tag the Album and Artist by pulling the file's path name apart? I need to go up a directory to get the album and go up two directories to get the artist.

Right now I am doing each album & artist by hand, but do track number and title automatically. I hope there is an easier way!

This is the best tagger I have tried so far! Thanks!!
Scott

2

You can use "Convert > Filename - Tag" with a string like:
%artist%\%dummy% %album%\%dummy%
or
%artist%\%year% %album%\%dummy%
if you also want to catch the year.

3

That did the trick!! Thank you very much!!
Scott

4

I have \Folder1\Folder2\Folder3\Folder4\Artist - Album

I've tried different variations of:
%dummy%%dummy%%dummy%%dummy%%artist%%album% Gets me: Album filename
%dummy%%dummy%%dummy%%dummy%%artist%%album% Gets me: Artist artist Album filename

It seems no matter what variation I try, I cannot get it right. I want Artist Artist Album Album

Thanks for your help.

5

Could you enclose the path in accent grave (accent from top left to bottom right) - all the backslashes have vanished due to formatting.

In general: if the information for 1 tag field (e.g. ARTIST) is spread over several foldernames you have to import the data from that part of the path to a user-defined auxiliary field, e.g. TMP_ARTIST and then merge the standard tag field with the user-defined field in a second step.
So an import string could look like this:
%artist%\%album%\%tmp_artist%\%tmp_album%\%dummy%

6

In the 4th folder I have 10-15 folders that are named Artist - Album. Trying to get Artist and Album with no luck. I am selecting one folder at a time like: Queen - Greatest Hits

7

To get the data from the folder that holds the file, use a
Format string: %artist% - %album%\%dummy%
for the function Convert>Filename-Tag

8

Thank you very much. That worked great. Such a time saver learning all theses commands.

Is there a way to sort the Filename-Tag drop down menu? It would make looking up previously used strings much easier.

9

No, but it uses an incremental search.