filter for mp3’s that have more than one album name in the same folder? Options

[bobbydriver]

Slightly obscure question I know but is there anyway I can script or filter for mp3’s that have more than one album name in the same folder?

My folder structure is

%Genre%\%artist%\%year% %album%\%track% - %title%

I seem to have a few stray albums folder where the album tag is inconsistent across the mp3s. With about 50,000 mp3s it gets hard to spot them all manually

I can’t figure out how to do it. Maybe that is because it’s impossible but worth asking you clever lot!

[ohrenkino]

Slightly obscure question I know but is there anyway I can script or filter for mp3’s that have more than one album name in the same folder?

My folder structure is

%Genre%\%artist%\%year% %album%\%track% - %title%

I seem to have a few stray albums folder where the album tag is inconsistent across the mp3s. With about 50,000 mp3s it gets hard to spot them all manually

I can’t figure out how to do it. Maybe that is because it’s impossible but worth asking you clever lot!

I doubt that you can do it within MP3tag as a) the filetype is not Mp3tag's domain and MP3tag only looks at the current file but does not compare successive ones.

What you could do is to dump a list of filenames in a text-file and then check this text-file e.g. with Excel.
Open a command shell and navigate to the top folder of your music library
enter the command

dir *.jpg /b /s > covers.txt
Open the textfile in e.g. Excel, separate the filenames from the path and then enter a formula like
if(a1;b1;0;1)
and filter for the 1s.

[bobbydriver]

I doubt that you can do it within MP3tag as a) the filetype is not Mp3tag's domain and MP3tag only looks at the current file but does not compare successive ones.

What you could do is to dump a list of filenames in a text-file and then check this text-file e.g. with Excel.
Open a command shell and navigate to the top folder of your music library
enter the command

dir *.jpg /b /s > covers.txt
Open the textfile in e.g. Excel, separate the filenames from the path and then enter a formula like
if(a1;b1;0;1)
and filter for the 1s.

You’ve put me along the right lines. I can export the folder name and the album tag (using the export facility) and then load them into a database and use SQL to identify the offending tags.

Thanks

[DetlevD]

Slightly obscure question I know but is there anyway I can script or filter for mp3’s that have more than one album name in the same folder? ...

Maybe this export script can help ...

$filename($getEnv('USERPROFILE')'\Desktop\AlbumDiff.txt',UTF-8)
$loop(%_folderpath%,1)$loop(%ALBUM%,1)%_folderpath%' === '%ALBUM%
$loopend()$loopend()

DD.20120119.2025.CET


Possibly this report is a little bit more comfortable to read ...

1: $filename($getEnv('USERPROFILE')'\Desktop\AlbumDiff.txt',UTF-8)
2: $loop(0)$loop(%_folderpath%,1)$puts(MaxWidth1,$ifgreater($len(%_folderpath%),$get(MaxWidth1),$len(%_folderpath%),$get(MaxWidth1)))$loopend()
3: $loop(%_folderpath%,1)$loop(%ALBUM%,1)$left(%_folderpath%$repeat($char(32),$get(MaxWidth1)),$get(MaxWidth1))' ==> '%ALBUM%
4: $loopend()$loopend()$repeat('=',$get(MaxWidth1))$loopend()
5: $loop(0)$loop(%ALBUM%,1)$puts(MaxWidth2,$ifgreater($len(%ALBUM%),$get(MaxWidth2),$len(%ALBUM%),$get(MaxWidth2)))$loopend()
6: $loop(%ALBUM%,1)$loop(%_folderpath%,1)$left(%ALBUM%$repeat($char(32),$get(MaxWidth2)),$get(MaxWidth2))' ==> '%_folderpath%
7: $loopend()$loopend()$repeat('=',$get(MaxWidth2))$loopend()

DD.20110120.0640.CET

This post has been edited by DetlevD: Jan 20 2012, 06:41