XRECODE

Hey gang,

I read the tutorial on using Xrecode to zero pad the track number in the MP3 tag and I also wanted to make a change to how the Album is written in the tag. For instance, if the year for the album is 2013 and the album name is "Human Nature", I would like the Album to appear in the mp3 tag as:

(2013) Human Nature

To this end, I wrote my tagsreplace_track.txt file as: However, the regular expression doesn't appear to be working for the Album, because what I end up with is the following:
Is there some type of escape sequence I have to use with the parenthesis or the space between the close paren and "A" in album to get this to work? RegEx isn't my strong suit, but since using my exact syntax above works just fine for the file name, I'm not sure why it barfs for the tags.

Thanks,
Jeff

So I figured out what it's doing, but I don't know how to get around it. Even though I have my tag info to be changed in the [Album] section, it is taking all of the "%<insert letter here>" portions of my RegEx as a TIME/DATE format code. Hence the "%y" in "%year" becomes "18" and the "%a" in "%album" becomes "Fri". This SEEMS like a bug, but I'm not certain. Thoughts?

Regards,
Jeff

Please install the latest beta version like this - viewtopic.php?f=12&t=40
It should work now.

admin wrote: ↑Sat Apr 28, 2018 12:23 pm Please install the latest beta version like this - viewtopic.php?f=12&t=40
It should work now.

Awesome! Yep, worked like a charm. THANK YOU!

Regs,
Jeff

Actually, I spoke too soon. Can you tell me the proper syntax to use to make the Album's Year appear as part of the mp3tag Album title as opposed to the CURRENT year we are in?

Use of the %year in the tags file still doesn't work. Should we be able to use any of the metadata tags?

Jeff

Those should work - https://xrecode.com/wiki/index.php?titl ... n_Elements
i.e. %year% or %date% (whichever is present in your tags).

Thanks, man! I'm an idiot and forgot the ending "%" after year, hence it was still interpreting "%y" as the 2-digit current year. Sorry for being oblivious to my own screwup.

Regards,
Jeff

Unfortunately, it looks like version 1.89 has broken this for me again. Here's a screen shot of the settings I am using. Note how the metadata has the YEAR included TWICE in the album name of the main window for some reason? I can't figure out how to solve this issue, as this used to work just fine. Is there some setting I am missing?




Thanks
Jeff

Please install the latest beta version - viewtopic.php?f=12&t=40

Both the latest Beta, v1.89 and the latest stable build, 1.88 exhibits the issue, i.e. double Years showing up in the Album field.

Jeff