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

[Andrew Conkling <andrewski fr st>]

On Wed, 2004-04-21 at 18:07 +0200, Jérôme COUDERC wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
> 
>     At the present time, you can only rename the filename and not the 
> directory. It's why it displays "Invalid mask"

Could that be implemented in the future?  I think it'd be a nifty
feature.

> 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