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 Jan 2 2010, 17:50
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I have a bunch of songs in my library that will not backup to my external hard drive because they are then stored a couple fodlers deeper on that hard drive and exceed the 255 character limit.
I'd like to filter my library by the string size of the filename field...and other fields as well such as album. I'm guessing this is easy but I could not find a post that covers it. - Ed |
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Jan 2 2010, 18:28
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 Member Group: Full Members Posts: 4129 Joined: 26-May 06 From: Wuppertal, Germany, Planet Earth Member No.: 3194 Mp3tag Version: 2.54 |
QUOTE (reretteK @ Jan 2 2010, 17:50)  ... I'd like to filter my library by the string size of the filename field...and other fields as well such as album. ... Hmm you can search for "shorten" "truncation" and such ... ... there is somewhat fitting ... http://forums.mp3tag.de/index.php?showtopi...ost&p=30136 http://forums.mp3tag.de/index.php?showtopi...ost&p=22433 http://www.google.de/search?hl=de&safe...mp;aq=f&oq= DD.20100102.1828.CET -------------------- * Beyond that, don't ask, when you don't know what to do with the answer. *
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Jan 2 2010, 18:55
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Member Group: Members Posts: 2 Joined: 2-January 10 Member No.: 11593 Mp3tag Version: 2.45a |
QUOTE (DetlevD @ Jan 2 2010, 12:28) Hmm you can search for "shorten" "truncation" and such ... ... there is somewhat fitting ... http://forums.mp3tag.de/index.php?showtopi...ost&p=30136 http://forums.mp3tag.de/index.php?showtopi...ost&p=22433 http://www.google.de/search?hl=de&safe...mp;aq=f&oq= DD.20100102.1828.CET Thanks....I ended up adding a custom column with a value of "$len(%_filename_ext%)". That shows the filename length and I can sort or filter on it. I assume that adding this column in MP3Tag does not actaully add the field and values to the tags of my MP3 files...is that correct? - Ed |
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Jan 2 2010, 19:30
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Member Group: Full Members Posts: 4129 Joined: 26-May 06 From: Wuppertal, Germany, Planet Earth Member No.: 3194 Mp3tag Version: 2.54 |
QUOTE (reretteK @ Jan 2 2010, 18:55) ... I assume that adding this column in MP3Tag does not actaully add the field and values to the tags of my MP3 files...is that correct? ... Yes. DD.20100102.1930.CET -------------------- * Beyond that, don't ask, when you don't know what to do with the answer. *
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Jan 2 2010, 20:27
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Member Group: Full Members Posts: 188 Joined: 20-December 06 From: United States Member No.: 4120 Mp3tag Version: 2.54 |
QUOTE (reretteK @ Jan 2 2010, 19:55) Thanks....I ended up adding a custom column with a value of "$len(%_filename_ext%)". That shows the filename length and I can sort or filter on it. Any variation on this that could include the entire length of the directory and filename (e.g., C:\music\FLAC\Artist\Album\filename.ext) -------------------- Players: Various Squeezebox Network Music Players for home; iPad and iPhone for portable
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Jan 2 2010, 20:48
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Member Group: Full Members Posts: 188 Joined: 20-December 06 From: United States Member No.: 4120 Mp3tag Version: 2.54 |
QUOTE (garym @ Jan 2 2010, 21:27) Any variation on this that could include the entire length of the directory and filename (e.g., C:\music\FLAC\Artist\Album\filename.ext) I've figured out how to get directory length with %_directory% but this is only for the directory containing the file, not the complete directory/subdirectory length. help welcome. Edit: And I can use both _directory and _parent_directory, but this only picks up first two directory levels. In most cases I have 3 or 4 levels (e.g., E:\music\codec\artist\album\disc#) This post has been edited by garym: Jan 2 2010, 20:59 -------------------- Players: Various Squeezebox Network Music Players for home; iPad and iPhone for portable
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Jan 3 2010, 15:22
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Member Group: Full Members Posts: 4129 Joined: 26-May 06 From: Wuppertal, Germany, Planet Earth Member No.: 3194 Mp3tag Version: 2.54 |
%_FOLDERPATH%%_FILENAME_EXT%
or just %_PATH% should give the entire filepath. DD.20101003.1522.CET This post has been edited by DetlevD: Jan 3 2010, 15:23 -------------------- * Beyond that, don't ask, when you don't know what to do with the answer. *
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