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brooksprumoPostOctober 16, 2013, 12:47
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Normal topicRenaming and Moving Files

Hi everyone,

I'm currently evaluating Yate to determine if it fits my needs w.r.t. tagging and renaming files. I currently use exfalso on Linux for my tagging and renaming needs, but I'd love to have a Mac application, since I spend more time on my Mac. With exfalso, I'm able to move and rename files to arbitrary locations based on static (i.e. a fixed "Music" base folder) and dynamic (i.e. tags) data. Here's an actual example:

Audio files currently live in ~/Sort, and I want to move them to ~/Music/{albumArtist}/[{year}] {album}/{discNumber}x{trackNumber} - {artist} - {title}

I don't think I can do this with the Rename feature, so I was exploring the Actions feature; however I couldn't figure out if this is possible or not. Can someone weigh in and let me know if my move and rename is possible with Yate? If it is, I'd really appreciate some additional help in figuring out how to handle this.

Thanks in advance!
2MR2PostOctober 16, 2013, 13:30
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Hi there. This is possible with the Move action function which let's you move and rename at the same time. The only somewhat tricky part is the '[year] album' compound path component.

First you have to define a Rename template (in preferences) to handle the actual filename rename. We'll also use the rename to define the compound parent folder: It should be something like:

<Disc Pad2>x<Track Pad2>-<Artist>-<Title><Folder Start><IfExists><Year>[<Year>] <endIf><Album>

... then you would use a Move action function as follows:

Absolute path = ~/Music
1st path component = Album Artist
2nd and 3rd path components unused
for the last path component specify your rename template

I've just tried moving a track named 'Before Gas and TV' from ~/temp and I get:

~Music/[2009] Get Lucky/01x04-Mark Knopfler-Before Gas and TV.m4a

If you had more than one compound path component you'd have to construct the path components in variables and specify the variables as path components in the Move.

I hope this helps.
brooksprumoPostOctober 16, 2013, 14:06
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Thanks for the quick reply, 2MR2! I'll try it out and reply back if I need some more help.
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