Filter if "modified date" is greater than "create date" Options

[jcclow]

Hello All!

I want to be able to filter the tracks I've tagged, so they no longer display after they've been updated. I saw this post Filter by date? and it pointed me to the RAW data and I've tried various combinations of %_file_mod_datetime_raw%>%_file_create_datetime_raw%, but I can't get the output I need. All of my filters just end up showing everything.

I created the two columns that DetLevD suggested and I've verified that the integers returned by both data types are different, I just can't figure out the syntax to have the filter output just the newer files.

Jeremy

[ohrenkino]

All of my filters just end up showing everything.

Could you give examples of typical "all-inclusive" filters?

[DetlevD]

... I want to be able to filter the tracks I've tagged, so they no longer display after they've been updated. I saw this post Filter by date? and it pointed me to the RAW data and I've tried various combinations of %_file_mod_datetime_raw%>%_file_create_datetime_raw%, but I can't get the output I need. All of my filters just end up showing everything.
I created the two columns that DetLevD suggested and I've verified that the integers returned by both data types are different, I just can't figure out the syntax to have the filter output just the newer files. Jeremy

The syntax for an appropriate filter expression was shown in this post ...
http://forums.mp3tag.de/index.php?showtopi...ost&p=48207
For example:
"$ifgreater(%_file_mod_datetime_raw%,%_file_create_datetime_raw%,1,0)" IS 1

But your problem cannot be solved by comparison of file modification and file creation.

DD.20110823.0750.CEST

This post has been edited by DetlevD: Aug 23 2011, 06:49

[jcclow]

Here's just a couple of examples that I tried (the others are embarrassing, now that I've researched it).

CODE

$ifgreater(%_file_mod_datetime_raw%,1313807105,0,1) IS 1
"$ifgreater(%_file_mod_datetime_raw%,1313807105,1,0)" IS 1
%_file_mod_datetime_raw% GREATER %_file_create_datetime_raw%
$if($greater(%_file_mod_datetime_raw%,%_file_create_datetime_raw%),1)
$ifgreater(%_file_mod_datetime%,%_datetime%)

So what I'm asking is not possible at all? Is there another way to approach this that I'm not seeing?

[DetlevD]

Here's just a couple of examples that I tried (the others are embarrassing, now that I've researched it). ...

CODE

$ifgreater(%_file_mod_datetime_raw%,1313807105,0,1) IS 1

Bad syntax.
Double apostrophes missing around the left part of the filter expression.

CODE

"$ifgreater(%_file_mod_datetime_raw%,1313807105,1,0)" IS 1

Should work.

CODE

%_file_mod_datetime_raw% GREATER %_file_create_datetime_raw%

Bad syntax.
Double apostrophes missing around the left part of the filter expression.
Maybe the right part of the filter expression's comparison operator GREATER needs to be a dedicated integer number, but no info field placeholder variable.
But this comparison, if it would work, will give no meaningful result, because modification datetime is always greater than creation datetime.

CODE

$if($greater(%_file_mod_datetime_raw%,%_file_create_datetime_raw%),1)

Bad syntax.
Double apostrophes missing around the expression.
A function named $greater does not exist.
Function $if missing parameters.

CODE

$ifgreater(%_file_mod_datetime%,%_datetime%)

Bad syntax.
Function $ifgreater missing parameters.



Please read the Mp3tag help manual.
See section "Filter" rules and examples.
See section "Scripting" general and other functions.

... So what I'm asking is not possible at all? Is there another way to approach this that I'm not seeing?

If you want to detect any modification of a subject, then you need an indicator, which shows the difference between two states of the subject, for example ...
... the difference in the data content of the file.
... the difference in the checksum of the data content of the file.
... the difference in the access datetime stamp of the file in the filesystem.
... the difference in the modification datetime stamp of the file in the filesystem.
... or any useful combination of such indicators.
Mp3tag does not offer a pre-post state control tool for such revisions in the filter section of the list view.


There might be a way around.
When finished the work on a file, one can set an user defined tag-field e. g. 'DONE' to the value of '1'.
All files which contain this tag-field value DONE=1 can be suppressed in the list view by the filter expression ...
NOT DONE IS 1

To refresh the already filtered view press key [F3] twice.
After all work is done, the user defined tag-field DONE can be removed from all files.


There might be another way around without filtering (... already indicated in the referred thread in post #3).
When finished the work on a file, sort the file list view by %_file_mod_datetime_raw% (this needs to have a column defined) in order to move the latest modification to top or bottom of the list.
Leave this file there or ...
... select this file and delete it from the list by pressing key [Del].
To see all files again refesh the current view by pressing key [F5].

DD.20110824.0940.CEST

This post has been edited by DetlevD: Aug 24 2011, 17:42