First off, I am new to these forums. I have used MP3TAG for about a year but something has been bothering me and I thought I'd come to the forums to try to get an answer.
When I'm renaming my tags (tag-filename) I usually do it by artist-title. HOWEVER, when my mp3 has a "" in it, it creates a folder, here's an example.
"Pink" is the artist, and "I Don't Believe You (Bimbo Jones Radio Mix) 125BPM" is the title of the MP3 when I d/l it off my MP3 pool. MP3 tag will create a folder "Pink - I Don" and inside that will be the song titled "'t Believe You (Bimbo Jones Radio Mix) 125BPM".
How can I configure MP3TAG to ignore the "" in the MP3 tags instead of creating a folder. It's a huge inconvenience to go in and manually rename each tag, copy song over, delete folder, etc.
You are right - this is a known bug and has been discussed in this forum. Apparently a reworked version will replace the slash like other illegal characters in the filename. I do not know whether this already available.
For the time being you might want to replace the slash with another character to avoid the unwanted folders.
The superb filtering and replacing functions should facilitate that task.
The following filtering syntax applies to version 2.45 and above.
Press F3 to get the filter-input at the bottom of the MP3tag window.
To find all titles containing a slash enter:
title HAS /
please note the HAS in capitals. It is a keyword and has to be written like that.
Have a look at the result, then select all files that should get the slash replaced (if the filter is correct this should be all in the list)
A replace is done simplest with an action (press Alt-5) of the type "Replace"
After Alt-5 press the "new" button, enter a sensible name.
Then select for action type Replace
Select title as field
enter / as search string
enter the replace string - I would suggest a "- " but that is up to you.
Execute the action.
and all your slashes will be replaced by e.g. "- ".
You may then apply the function Tag - Filename to update your filenames.
One more note: the filter is persistent. If you close MP3tag and open it, the filter will still be valid. So if everything went ok, the filter will produce an empty file list. Delete the filter to see a filled file list.