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Deriving Disc Info From Album Title
PhukkinPostJune 6, 2014, 04:27
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Normal topicDeriving Disc Info From Album Title

Some of my albums have multiple discs, but the disc info is recorded in the album rather than the under the disc column.

For example one will say

The Album - CD1

This is a complicated request but I thought I'd ask anyway, I am wondering if I can create some sort of search which will find anything on the end of an album title with with disc/CD/disk etc, copy that word and everything after it to a variable, then somehow extract the numerical value from that selection and insert it into the disc metadata column.

Any ideas on how this could be done?

Thanks in advance
2MR2PostJune 6, 2014, 08:32
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Try this:

http://2manyrobots.com/actions/SetDiscNumbersFromAlbumName.zip

- unzip
- Yate>Import Preferences

You'll have an action named 'Set Disc Numbers from Album Name'.

It will look for album names ending in CD #, disc #, Disk # (any alphabetic case). If found, the disc number will be set appropriately. This is done on a per file basis so you can run it agains multiple albums at the same time if you wish.
PhukkinPostJune 7, 2014, 01:38
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That works perfectly. I hope I'm not being greedy by asking, but I have a hell of a lot of albums that have discs in separate folders but no meta data to state it is disc 1 or disc 2 etc.

Is there anyway to do the exact same thing as what you've done here, except checking the parent folder names to see if a disc number is stated?

Thanks
2MR2PostJune 7, 2014, 06:41
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No problem. I've posted:

http://2manyrobots.com/actions/SetDiscNumbersFromAlbumName2.zip

If a disc number is not found in the album field it will attempt to find it in the name of the folder containing the tracks.

The new action is named: Set Disc Numbers from Album Name 2
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