Year tag manipulation

[lordlance]

Hello I want to know specifically how to rename title and filenames with my requirement:

1. I set year in yyy-mm-dd format for all files.
2. I then wish to rename my filenames and titles in the format of %title% (dd-mm-yyyy)

[ohrenkino]

To transform

@lordlance

yyy-mm-dd

into

@lordlance

dd-mm-yyyy

try $regexp(%year%,(\d+)-(\d+)-(\d+),$3-$2-$1)

Please note: by the definition in the ID3 standard, YEAR has only 4 digits.
If you want to use a longer date, RELEASETIME could be a valid alternative.

[lordlance]

I don't want to change the formatting of the year tag. I want to extract the 3 components of the year tag and append them in a different format for title and file name.

[ohrenkino]

@lordlance

I want to extract the 3 components of the year tag and append them in a different format for title and file name.

Yes. And in the format string with which you modify title and filename, you use my suggestion instead of the plain %year%.

[lordlance]

Ok but then I can't retain old title. I want to append title with the regex.

[ohrenkino]

@lordlance

want to append title

See the FAQs:

Actions and batch-operations

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