Hi Casey On 2015-08-08 23:17, Casey <caseyeasytag rcpt at> wrote:
Is it possible to create a mask that would use only a single character of a replacement mask? For example, given the following: Artist = Cake Album = Motorcade of Generosity Title = Jolene could I create a mask that would rename to /C/Cake/Motorcade of Generosity/Jolene.mp3 I envision something like "/%a1/%a/%b/%t" where the "1" in "%a1" would specify how many characters to output.
There is already a long-standing bug about this (although the description is not as detailed):
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=689424I do not have much time at the moment, but if someone wants to implement this, the feature is in scan_dialog.c, the et_scan_generate_new_filename_from_mask function.
The reason I'm looking for something like this is that the head unit in my car will take a USB flash drive but has issues with more than 250 files or folders at any given level. I'm hoping to reduce the nesting by creating 26 directories (A-Z) at the root level with the full artist name as a sub-directory under that initial character.
This makes a lot of sense. Thanks for describing your use case! -- http://amigadave.com/
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