The never ending rename mask story (maybe sometimes i will understand, still trying)

[TaggerJoe]

Hi Again,

i want:
rename folderstructure from tags to:

U2/1980 - Boy

where U2 comes from Albumartist first, else from Artist, if Year is not emty

with compilations

Various/Album [CD1]

use CD (instead of Disc) if the mediatype is emty, use cd01 (with a leading 0) if the Disc Total is greater than 9)

rename filename from tags:

Artist - 01 - Title

where Artist comes from Albumartist first, else from Artist

and alternative:

Artist - Album - 01 - Title

rename filename from tags if compilation is true:

01 - Artist - Title

use Artist else Albumartist

hopefully i was precise enogh

…isnt it possible to build an interpreter that translates:
“Albumartist,Artist/Year - Album” to the f… “code”? [sorry im only dreaming]

can we “non-porgrammers” have a topic for “example code”
i have fond some here in the depth of the forum, but to understand what it does it often is needed to copy that example-code to prefs, cause in the forumposts often does not have the resulting, renamed structure shown.

i realy tried to understand that (idonteveneknowwhatitis) i was able to handle the “old” sysstem" but sorry the new is not my world, yet… me>50yrs from german,

and please feel free to tell me how i can donate your work…

just one more thing:
is it somehow possible to write a “1” instead of the word “true” in isCompilation: set value ?

[paultaylor]

rename folderstructure from tags to:
U2/1980 - Boy
where U2 comes from Albumartist first, else from Artist, if Year is not emty

 ifnotempty2(albumartist,artist,folderseparator) + ifnotempty(year,' - ')  + ifnotempty(album,folderseparator)

with compilations
Various/Album [CD1]
use CD (instead of Disc) if the mediatype is emty, use cd01 (with a leading 0) if the Disc Total is greater than 9)

Compilations are not necessarily Various Artists, you can also have Single Artist compilations, so what do yo want to do ?

rename filename from tags:
Artist - 01 - Title
where Artist comes from Albumartist first, else from Artist
and alternative:
Artist - Album - 01 - Title

if(artist=albumartist)
{
    ifnotempty2(albumartist,artist,' - ') + ifnotempty(pad(trackno,2),' - ') + title
}
else
{
    ifnotempty2(albumartist,artist,' - ') + ifnotempty(album,' - ') + ifnotempty(pad(trackno,2),' - ') + title
}

rename filename from tags if compilation is true:
01 - Artist - Title
use Artist else Albumartist

    ifnotempty2(albumartist,artist,' - ') + ifnotempty(pad(trackno,2),' - ') + title

…isnt it possible to build an interpreter that translates:
“Albumartist,Artist/Year - Album” to the f… “code”? [sorry im only dreaming]

Possibly, but we did have a simpler naming criteria but it just wasnt flexible enough.

can we “non-porgrammers” have a topic for “example code”
i have fond some here in the depth of the forum, but to understand what it does it often is needed to copy that example-code to prefs, cause in the forumposts often does not have the resulting, renamed structure shown.

i realy tried to understand that (idonteveneknowwhatitis) i was able to handle the “old” sysstem" but sorry the new is not my world, yet… me>50yrs from german,

I will create a new Forum if others respond to favourably to your idea. The one good thing about the new system is that it is actually pure [b]Javascript[b/] so it should be easy for someone to phrase their question as a Javascript question and post it on a site like http://stackoverflow.com/ and get a quick answer.

and please feel free to tell me how i can donate your work…

Thankyou, you can use the button on this page to make additional donations http://www.jthink.net/jaudiotagger/donate.jsp

just one more thing:
is it somehow possible to write a “1” instead of the word “true” in isCompilation: set value ?[/quote]

[husker]

I second the vote to have a forum of programming examples. I’m no programmer, and really need to spend too much time fumbling around.

[paultaylor]

What I really need to do is bring Jaikoz up to the level of SongKong, SongKong comes with a large number of predefined masks, plus Javascript functions are kept separate from the masks.

I suppose in the meantime you could use SongKong (trial) as a learning tool for creating masks in Jaikoz, there a reonly a couple of minor differences the most significant being that Jaikoz has a separate subfolder and filename mask, whereas it is combined in SongKong

I recently added a SongKong example to the blog showing how you can limit the path length that could easily be adapted for Jaikoz

An even easier way to shorten audio filenames with Functions

and I think the blog is the place to add additonal examples.

[husker]

That would be helpful for more examples, thank you.