Trimming album field Options

[gidxg03]

Can anyone tell me how I can trim my album field (which I have created by copying the file path to album field) from:

E:\mp3\Now That's What I Call Music\Now That's What I Call Music 1 - 2 CD\Disc1\

To:

Now That's What I Call Music 1

and

E:\mp3\Now That's What I Call Music\Now That's What I Call Music 2 - 2 CD\Disc1\

Now That's What I Call Music 2

This continues on up to album Now That's What I Call Music 76.

Thanks in advance.

[dano]

Instead of putting the whole path in the album field you should use "Convert -> filename - tag".

The format string
%album% - %dummy%\%dummy%\%dummy%
should give you the desired result.

[gidxg03]

Instead of putting the whole path in the album field you should use "Convert -> filename - tag".

The format string
%album% - %dummy%\%dummy%\%dummy%
should give you the desired result.

Hi Dano,

Thanks for the reply but I am afraid that did not work for me. Nothing in the album field changed. Is there a format string available just to trim from "E:\mp3\Now That's What I Call Music\Now That's What I Call Music 72 - 2 CD\" to "Now That's What I Call Music 72"?

Thanks.

[ohrenkino]

... that did not work for me.

DO not apply that to the album field but use the converter
And then you have to be painfully precise what a filename looks like.
To extract the album name from

...E:\mp3\Now That's What I Call Music\Now That's What I Call Music 72 - 2 CD\" to "Now That's What I Call Music 72"?

Provided that your example is still the correct fully qualified pathname
use Convert>Filename-Tag
and enter:
%album% - %dummy%\%dummy%

The preview should show the result.

Or use an action of the type "Replace with regular expression" for ALBUM and the following search string:
e:\\mp3\\.*\\(.*) -.*
Replace string
$1

[gidxg03]

Provided that your example is still the correct fully qualified pathname
use Convert>Filename-Tag
and enter:
%album% - %dummy%\%dummy%

This worked perfectly. Thank you so much!!