Is there a way of stopping Jaikoz from adding album names into song names?

[BA88]

Hello,

I will take an example to explain.

I add a folder containing one album into Jaikoz. Lets say for arguments sake it is the following album; “Natty - Man Like I”.

Now originally when I burnt the CD onto my computer the file names were all in lower case (i.e. the song name 01-natty-july). So I downloaded Jaikoz to correct this and to also add meta deta.

Now the only thing I don’t like about Jaikoz is if I want to batch re-name the file names by highlighting them all in one go and right clicking “File and folder correct>Correct file names from tags”, this causes the file names to now not only contain the correct file (which is good) name but also the name of the album before it (not what I want). For example it now reads; “Natty-Man Like I-01-July.mp3”.

What I am basically asking then is if I cant stop Jaikoz from adding the album name into the song file names after correcting the file names from tags, as it can be annoying to read on an Ipod as there simply isn’t enough room on the screen to see the song name, especially if the album title is very long as a lot of my music tends to be.

[wynlyndd]

Well, go into your preferences…
click the tab labeled “File and Folder Correct”…
click the subtab labeled “Rename File from Tags”…

see the rename mask? For example, mine is :

$if(%trackno%,%trackno%-)$if(%artist%,%artist%-)%title%

Note there is no mention of the album tag , therefore when renaming the actual file, Jaikoz doesn’t do anything with album. If I recall correctly, the default rename mask has album in it so just take out that part.

so using your example of the album “Man Like I” from artist “Natty” and track 1 being the song “July”…

using my mask, this song would be have a file name, 01-Natty-July.mp3

This assumes :

1. I have “pad numbers with zero” in the Save pref screen
2. the artist field contains only the words “Natty”
3. the title field only contains the word “July”.

If any of the fields has extra information because someone entered it into Muiscbrainz incorrectly, you would need to fix this before the “Correct File Names from Tags” step.

Hope I understood what you were describing and that this helps. Let us know how it goes.

[BA88]

It works, thanks very much.