enhanced naming templates

[markryall]

Perhaps i’m just obsessive, but i like to have my music stored like this:

$base/F/Fleet Foxes/2008 04 08 Sun Giant EP/01 Sun Giant.mp3

The missing ingredients are getting substrings from the ‘bestartist’ tag value for the top level folder ‘A’ and the rest of the content of the year tag (even if musicbrainz returns a full release date, only the year component can be used in the filename).

Might these sorts of things be made possible in a future release by enhancing the templating (maybe a $substring function and making the a %date% tag that includes all of the year tag content)?

If they are already possible - maybe the documentation just needs a bit more detail.

[t41]

I second this request - especially needed for bootleg tagging for the dates to show as most bootlegs are filed by date.

Example - Led Zeppelin - 1969-01-05 - Whisky a Go Go, Los Angeles

base folder= bootlegs > led zeppelin > 1969 > actual date

all of my bootlegs are labeled as such, i guess for now i can lable the album by using the date for album title.

Thanks

[paultaylor]

Yes both of these are already on my todo list, I just havent worked out the best way to implement a nice flexible scripting language for renaming fiels and subfolders yet.