Re: [Easytag-mailing] Ability to add folder paths to renaming masks

[Jérôme COUDERC <j couderc ifrance com>]

Hi Andrew,

   At the present time, you can only rename the filename and not the 
directory. It's why it displays "Invalid mask"

Regards,
Jerome


Andrew Conkling wrote:

> Hi all,
> This being my first message on the mailing list, I'll just say hello and
> thanks to all who have worked to make a very good program.  It's
> definitely better than the proprietary software Dr. Tag which I used for
> quite a while in Windows.
>
> Anyway, I had a question.  I've been using 0.30d for a while now (the
> one available for Mandrake 10.0 on the contrib mirror) with much
> success; I've slowly been archiving my classical CD collection on my
> computer.  However, I've had an idea which doesn't seem to work.  Right
> now, my regular mask for renaming files is as follows:
>
> %a - %t (%c; %y)
> (where the comment field is reserved for the orchestra/performers of a
> piece)
>
> However, I like my folder paths to follow a format, so I thought I'd
> change the mask to be as follows:
>
> /music/%a/%b (%c; %y)/%a - %t (%c; %y)
>
> so that I can edit any files that are not in a correctly-formatted
> folder.  (In the past, I've just edited the folder names manually to fit
> the format above.)  When I tried this, the scanner said it was an
> invalid mask and they were just renamed with -music-%a-%b (%c; %y)-%a -
> %t (%c; %y).
>
> Is there any way to get this method to work?
>
> Thanks in advance (and sorry for such a long msg ;),
> Andrew
>
>
>
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Jerome COUDERC <j couderc ifrance com>