Hi, I posted an action called 'Split Off Path Components'. You can download it here:
http://2manyrobots.com/actions/SplitOffPathComponents.zip

Unzip the file and drag the plist to Yate's main file area.

The action will extract genre,artist,album and title from the path. If for any reason your path is not long enough, nothing will be extracted. The action is written to ignore fields that already have metadata. If for any reason you always want to overwrite existing metadata, edit the Copy statements and uncheck 'only if they are empty'.

I wrote this after reading your first post so I didn't remove the track numbers from the title field. I'll try and get you a different action later today which does that part.

Do you already have the artwork in files? I'm not big on doing auto artwork extraction without viewing and okaying the results. We have an auto search for artwork which tends to get good results. I can include that into the action with a prompt asking you to okay the results. Alternately we have a workflow to get iTunes to find the artwork for unsupported files such as flac and dsf and I could set you up to go that way. The advantage of the second route is that you can easily batch the process and go over the files at your leisure determining if you like what they found.

http://2manyrobots.com/actions/SplitOffPathComponents2.zip

I'm taking you literally. In addition to extracting genre, artist, album and title as the previous action did, this variant 'Split Off Path Components 2' will see if the title starts with:

digit digit space
or
digit digit -

If it does, the track number will be extracted and saved as long as the track number is currently empty. (Title not modified).

As far as using iTunes to create the artwork it is quite simple. There is a help topic called: 'Using iTunes to Look for Missing Artwork' on the main help page. Basically it involves writing two one line actions: One containing a Create Stubs statement, the other a Process Stubs statement. Both these actions are run through the batch processor (Remember to enable auto-save when running the Process Stubs action). In between the two batch runs you use iTunes to look for the artwork. One user wrote up his experience here:

http://www.head-fi.org/t/713798/a-guide-for-adding-album-art-in-flac-files-on-os-x-with-yate

Let me know if you need any help.

LOL it's difficult because I can't programmatically tell iTunes to fetch the artwork.

When the batch processor asks for a folder it's asking for a 'root' folder. The folder you supply and all sub folders will be processed.

Yate Step 1: The 'first' action should only contain a 'Create Stub' statement. Make sure you check off the file types you're interested in. If I remember correctly, the default is flac, dsf and wav. The create stub functionality will only process tracks which have an Album field and which do not currently have any artwork. Run the Batch Processor. Select the 'Create Stub' action. Select your 'root' folder (you can try it with one folder). On the next panel 'auto save' does not matter. Enable 'verbose logging'. Let it run. The log file should contain enrties describing that stubs were created. If it does not, either no files of the matching types were found; stubs already existed; the album tag was empty or the tracks already have artwork.

iTunes step: Make sure the Grouping column is displayed in the list My Music view. If you sort the column you should see items with a STUB grouping. Select all these files and from the iTunes context menu do a 'Get Album Artwork'.

Yate Step 2: Run the Batch Processor Wizard again. Select the 'Process Stubs' action. This action should contain a single 'Process Stubs' statement with everything checked. Select the same 'root' folder. Make sure that auto save is checked and you might as well leave verbose log checked. Run the action. If iTunes found any artwork it should have been imported.

If I haven't missed any steps, this should do it. This is the only functionality in Yate that had to span two separate process runs 🙁

🙂