Sorry if this has been asked before: I have filenames in the following format: 01 - Hawkwind - PXR5.flac Currenltly I have just the song title as the title tag, so in the above case: "PXR5" I want the title tag to be the title of the song, followed by the artist name from the filename. (the arti…

Yes. The esiest way would be to apply Convert>Filename - tag first with Mask: %track% - %myartist% - %title% and then either run an action of the type "Format value" or Convert>Tag-Tag for TITLE afterwards with: Format string: %title% (%myartist%)

The best way would be to get also the artist and track data into the tag fields. "Various Artists" is best saved in ALBUMARTIST. So, for all the files that should get a new name, do as follows Copy the ARTIST to ALBUMARTIST, with Convert>Tag-Tag for ALBUMARTIST Format string: %artist% Import th…

Thanks for this. The reason I need to change the 'artist' tag to Various Artists is because of the way my media library program works (Media Monkey). If I don't do this, I get all the individual artists (from compilations) listed in my 'artists' view. I don't want this! Hence, I'd rather change th…

[image] AudioBabble: my real question was how Still almost the same answer: create an amorphous string of the filename from structured data in the tag fields. If you do not like to see the artist in the ARTIST field, then save the artist's name in a user-defined one and go on from there as d…

Forgive my ignorance, but consider the following filename: "01 - Ozric Tentacles - The Domes of G'bal" Surely, there's a method of pattern matching where '-' is the separator and the 'fields' are whatever is between the separators? Provided the convention is "track no." - "artist' - "title", then…

Ah, now I see... Actually what seems to work is: Convert > Filename - Tag, mask: %track% %dummy% %artist% %dummy% %title% -- otherwise it tries to include the dashes (I think they might be some kind of non-standard dashes in my particular case) Then, as you say, I can do a 'format value' action…

[image] AudioBabble: %track% %dummy% %artist% %dummy% %title% Did you try your format string on 01 - Ozric Tentacles - The Domes of G'bal This shows for me: [image] I would suggest to copy & paste your filename from Windows Explorer and see what kind of dashes you really find in your file…

It looks like you're right... and even worse: Oh dear, this isn't a good method at all!

[image] LyricsLover: I would suggest to copy & paste your filename from Windows Explorer and see what kind of dashes you really find in your filename. This is the best advice. If your tags/filenames were downloads there is a very good chance these "dash" characters are one oif many alternate …

yup, so this works: %track% - %artist% – %title% notice the long dash between artist and title, which I copied via hitting F2 on the filename in mp3tag. Best forget about the %dummy% -- can be useful in some places but not in this case!

[image] MotleyG: Figure dash, Em dash, En dash for example are just three different ones off the top of my head :+1: There are many more variants :exploding_head: [image] Split title into individual fields? Support In addition to @MotleyG 's advice, please have a lo…

Title tag from filename - Title {artist}

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There are many more variants