New user - renaming some files, not others

[JohnnnnyOppps]

Hi-

Just bought a SongKong license, running on Synology.

When I rename, some of my files and folders are renaming, and others are not. I can’t discern a pattern!

You can see in the attached screen shot that in the report, that Alfred Delie is being moved correctly to a directory in the Artist directory, while A Classical Christmas is not moving.

Is that because it’s a Compilation and I don’t have a file mask that works for compilations? Or something else.

EDIT: Actually, looks like the ones that aren’t moving many of them do not have a disc number. Is there a way that I can ensure that disc numbers get written? Do I need to run metadata corrections first?

EDIT2: There must be something else missing from these files maybe? I used manual edit to add discno 1 and disc total 1 for the Aretha Franklin album, and then tried to rerun rename files on that directory - and it renamed the individual files, but didn’t move anything.

Thanks, also uploaded support files.

John

FWIW, this is the file mask that I’m using for both albums and directories, and my move directory is /music/flac/Artist

ifnotempty(albumartist.length > 40 ? albumartist.substring(0, albumartist.lastIndexOf(' ', 40)) : albumartist, '/') +
ifnotempty(album.length > 30 ? album.substring(0, album.lastIndexOf(' ', 30)) : album, '/') +
(ifnotempty(discno) ? discno + '-' : '') +  
ifnotempty(pad(trackno,2), ' ') +
(title.length > 30 ? title.substring(0, title.lastIndexOf(' ', 30)) : title)

[paultaylor]

What do you have Rename files based on Metadata set to?

Tutorial: Rename Files, Renaming

Previous Next The Rename Files tab is used to rename files, i.e. modify the value of Sub Folder and Filename to use the provided rename mask based on the metadata in our files. But if we start Rename Files task and Rename files based on metadata is set to No then no files will be renamed, this is so the Rename Files can be used to move files without renaming (based on options on the Move Files tab). [image] Rename files based on metadata By default this option this set to No . We can decid…

[JohnnnnyOppps]

Hi Paul-

Thanks for getting back to me.

“Yes, if has metadata”

John

[paultaylor]

Hi, could you run Create Support Files that will help me resolve issue.

[JohnnnnyOppps]

Already done twice - once originally, and then again for another response to your kind offer to look at the status report (on another fresh thread). Thank you!

[paultaylor]

Sorry, ah okay I see the issue

So there are two possible parts to Rename Files, you can do both or either:

• Renaming the subfolder/filename part based on the mask
• Moving the base folder to a new folder

So the rename has been applied to the A Classical Christmas, (note the background in the spreadsheet is green indicating it has changed). With the option set to Yes, if has metadata files will be renamed as long as they have values for title, album and either artist or album artist

The problem is the Move part , Move Folder is only applied to albums that have been matched to MusicBrainz, Discogs or Bandcamp. A Classical Christmas has not be matched, we can see
this by going to Browse:Browse by Album and setting the Matched to Album filter to Without Full Album Match