Many of the artists I listen to have enormous catalogues (especially in Jazz). I bought Jaikoz hoping to be able to add the year to each album title, such that it would appear in the iTunes album column and in my iPod as “Album [Year]”. Does anyone have a good shortcut for being about to do this to a rather large collection?
Add "year" to "album"?
Preferences - File and folder correct then
%bestartist%%folderseperator%%album% [%year%] and then in Action - File and folder correct click correct subfolder from tags
That will modify the filename, but I think you want to change the metadata the Prepend commands can do what you want, although it would be easier if we had a PostPend Command which we dont currently (but Ill add to the todo list)
Find a Column you don’t currently use, and make sure it contains no values.
Position this column to the right of the Year column
Select fields in both columns (new , Year)
Select Edit/Prepend to Right will put the Year value in the new column
Position your Album column to the left of the new Column
Select fields in both columns (new, Album)
Select Edit/Prepend to Right will put the Album in front of the year value in the new column
The new column now has the value you want, move it to the right of the Album column
Select fields in both columns (new, Album)
Select Edit/Swap will put the new value in the album column
(If we had corresponding Postpend commnds which we dont you could do the following
Position your Album column to the left of the year Column
Select Edit/Postpend to Left will add the year after the album value in the album column)
Thanks for your feedback.
I’d done something like this already with a few albums, except instead of using the Prepend (and, thus, needing to create a new field), I used the paste to the right feature. This nicely places the year to the right of the album name, but lacks the brackets I’d like to insert. I was also attracted to the idea of being able to build it into the preferences with line code so that the step would automatically occur every time I ran an autocorrect.
Actually thats a good point I forgot you can copy multiple fields to paste, You could add each year to the Preferences/Manipulator/Word Replacer list for album, e.g 2001 -> (2001) and make sure word replacement is enabled for Preferences/Local Correct/AutoFormat/Album/Enable Replacement then run Action/Local Correct/Correct Albums
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I was also attracted to the idea of being able to build it into the preferences with line code so that the step would automatically occur every time I ran an autocorrect.[/quote]
When I add support for plugins , you should be able to modify values in all kinds of ways.