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padding zero %discno%

#1

USING OS Mac 10.5.6 & Jaikoz 2.8.4

My RENAME FOLDER is set to

%artist%%folderseperator%%album%$if(%discno%, (disc %discno%))

My RENAME FILE is set to

%artist%%album%$if(%discno%,%discno%)%trackno%%title%

I have “Pad numbers with zero…” set

I believe there was a bug in jaikoz some time back that did not pad the %discno% and that is the way my files are stored.; %discno% not padded and %trackno% padded

Now with the latest update %discno% is now padded and now my file and director names are different and is causing problem with not find duplicate iTunes using another program that I have.

I would like to have %trackno% padded but in this cases not have %discno% padded. Since I do not have any albums with more than 9 disc I just did not wan to add the extra zero.

  1. Is there a way that I can do this.

  2. I have tried various combinations to set and uset “Pad numbers” and Find
    Replace but cannot not do it in some simple steps.

Any way you could set up Jaikoz so that a user could put a special character in front of %trackno% or %discno% to prevent the padding?

I guess I could go back and redo all my names but that will take time and would be a pain.

Thanks if you can and not a problem if you cannot.

Thanks

Robert

#2

Hi, track numbers and disc numbers are automatically formatted as (01,02…) mainly to fix issue with existing value is (01/10,2,10) but a side effect is the padded format is always used.

I will add your request to the todo list but I cant see it being fixed anytime soon but you should be able to do it with clever use of Find and Replace

Change your filename mask so it is easy to identify the discno rather than other numbers such as trackno

i.e %artist%%album%$if(%discno%,DISC%discno%DISC_)%trackno%_%title%

then using Find and Replace search for
DISC01DISC
replace with
1
and repeat with numbers 2 to 9 (this step would be easier when I have support for regular expressions)

Alternatively because you are trying to edit the filename rather than metadata within the file you could use one of the various mass file renamer utilities available such as http://www.download.com/Filename-Magic-Pro/3000-2248_4-10155820.html?tag=mncol

#3

Paul,

The way I have my files it is hard to use the find and replace or external rename programs.

It was easier to go back and rename my old files with padded zero and be done with it and so things are OK on my side.

Do not spend any time on this and if I were you I would remove it from your to do list. It is not worth the effort and I am sure you have much more important things on your to do list to do.

Thanks

Robert