Variable Filename to Tags

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My filenames have the following pattern:

'artists'[a number of spaces]-[a number of spaces]'title'[a number of spaces]'(album)'

The problem is that the title can also be something like "abc (def)" followed by a number of spaces and then "(album)".

Examples(with.mp3 ending):

Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike, Moguai, Julian Perretta - Body Talk (Mammoth) (Original Mix)
EDX - Everything (Cazzette Remix)
EDX- Everything (Cazzette Remix)

The obvious thing to try is Filename->Tag. So I tried this, but I did not manage to come up with a way to consider the optional second title thing and the variable number of spaces.

However, I managed to describe the name with a simple Regex:
(.+?)[ ]-[ ](.+?[ ](?:(.+))?)[ ](?:((.*)))
$1=artist
$2=title
$3=album

Is there a way to edit multiple tags at once with a regex?

2

As long as the pattern of data an separator stay the same, you are fine
e.g.
artist - album
(space-hyphen-space)
and
artist - album
(space-space-hyphen-space-space)
it can be split into various fields: use only the single space.
You end up for the double-space construction with extra spaces at the end of the artist field and a leading space for the album field.
You may then apply a format-value-action with the $trim() command to get rid of these spaces.

Or you run 2 "replace" action over the filename that first replace every hyphen-space with space-hyphen-space and then all double-spaces with a single space.
Finally you use a "Guess value" action for _FILENAME
with the pattern you would have used in the convert filename-tag-function.

3

The way I understand your solution, is that it only works for every category when seperated by a sign
The thing is, it is not always like that.
It can be 'artist - title (album)'
or 'artist - title (still title) (album)'
Brackets are in the filename as written.
So the 'still title' part is optional and not actually seperated from the album part.

4

Yes, you have to adapt your masks to the unique separator for each pattern.
If it is a different pattern, you have to use a different mask.
Or you manipulate the original data in such a way that in the end you have a universal pattern - whatever is easier for you.
Even though the action is called "Guess values" it does not do too much guessing but sticks to the supplied masks.

5
Your situation is ... $1=artist $2=title $3=album Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike, Moguai, Julian Perretta - Body Talk (Mammoth) (Original Mix) 1------------------------------------------------- 2-------- 3----------------------- EDX - Everything (Cazzette Remix) 1-- 2--------- 3--------------- EDX- Everything (Cazzette Remix) 1-- 2--------- 3--------------- Proposal 1 ... Action Group Action "Format value" Field: ARTIST Formatstring: $regexp(%_FILENAME%,'^(.+?)\s*-\s*(.+?)\s*(\(.+\))$','$1') Action "Format value" Field: TITLE Formatstring: $regexp(%_FILENAME%,'^(.+?)\s*-\s*(.+?)\s*(\(.+\))$','$2') Action "Format value" Field: ALBUM Formatstring: $regexp(%_FILENAME%,'^(.+?)\s*-\s*(.+?)\s*(\(.+\))$','$3') Proposal 2 ... Action "Guess values" Source format: $regexp(%_FILENAME%,'^(.+?)\s*-\s*(.+?)\s*(\(.+\))$','$1===$2===$3') Guessing Pattern: %ARTIST%===%TITLE%===%ALBUM% To remove round brackets from the tag-field ALBUM, you have to do an additional step.

DD.20150115.1218.CET

6

Ohrenkino, I see what you mean.
I decided to go with DetlevD's second proposal as I do not have to rename anything at all.
Thanks you both for the help, I really appreciate it.