Hi,
i have been sorting out my data and have had a problem with some very old rips which I suspect had been tagged before UTF-8 became the norm.
One solution would have been to run SongKong on the data and use two keys so:-
renameFilesIfMatched=true
renameMask=Album/Artist - Title
It seems however that in my version of SongKong these options are not available in the profile properties in the Basic tab.
I am running Linux (openSUSE Tumbleweed) so it is possible that the Linux version is slightly different from the more common versions.
Please can somebody shine some light on this.
Fixing basic profile details missing fields?
SongKong is the same on all platforms, you need the Rename Files tab of the Rename Files task. See Tutorial: Rename Files, Renaming
OK I have it now. Never used it before. I had to enter the settings I wanted by hand in renamemask.properties as I could not edit or add to the drop down but I think I have what I want.
Just for your information I doing this in stages and dont want to break up my existing sub-directory structure based on genres until I am confident that what I have will work as I wish.
Many thanks for the reply.
Budgie
If you mean the list of rename masks no you can’t add to it directly, note within the list the names refer to the mask they are not the masks themselves, if you have just manually added a nonexistent maskname as if it was a mask that is not going to work.
But if you create new rename masks in Preferences:Filename Masks and then they will be added to the list and can be selected.
I recommend you watch this short rename files tutorial https://youtu.be/fSHgpOdam14?si=ngFliJ9jTSjicJs4