RegExp Find & Replace 4.3 w/ 253 presets (2011-07-06) [MM2+]

[TSP7]

Just started beating my collection into shape with Mediamonkey and loving this tool very much already! Thanks ZvezdanD!

I just used last.fm import to get my playcounts and, even better, last played dates, but some tracks were not imported as good as others and have no last played date. Is it possible to copy the last played date from a track above a track (and how would I do this)?

[sn0skier]

I want to take a title field which says the title, then " (feat. <featured artist>)" and move just the featured artist to the Involved people field and remove the " (feat. <featured artist>)" part from the title. How in good god's name do I do that with this program. Sorry, but with Steegy's extract fields script this was so easy, and I've spent 2 hours now trying to figure out how to do it with this script and I am no closer then when I started. I've searched this thread, read the intro (so many times) and some intros to regex, but this is very complicated and the intro is frankly poorly written and confusing.

[nohitter151]

I want to take a title field which says the title, then " (feat. <featured artist>)" and move just the featured artist to the Involved people field and remove the " (feat. <featured artist>)" part from the title. How in good god's name do I do that with this program. Sorry, but with Steegy's extract fields script this was so easy, and I've spent 2 hours now trying to figure out how to do it with this script and I am no closer then when I started. I've searched this thread, read the intro (so many times) and some intros to regex, but this is very complicated and the intro is frankly poorly written and confusing.

Preset 173 does that exactly, change the second drop down menu on the right hand side to "Involved people"

[sn0skier]

Preset 173 does that exactly, change the second drop down menu on the right hand side to "Involved people"

Doesn't work for me. It tries to change involved people to "Feat. <featured artist>)"

[MPG]

I was trying to use the Copy <From field> to <Into field> preset. I selected from Artist and into Album Artist. Using Regular Expression 1 and 2 checked off. The preset appeared to work like a charm until I did a search on the database for the artist and it located duplicate entries. One with the original artist/album artist and one with the RegExp updated fields. When I played the song, both entries became bold. If I deleted one entry, it deleted both entries. The only solution I could find was to clear my database and rebuild it. Believe me, I wasn't impressed as it takes well over an hour to clear and rebuild and I loose all my playlists, and play counts, etc.

Has anyone ever encountered this and if so, any suggestions on how to either not let it happen, or resolve the outcome?

TIA,
MPG

[theta_wave]

I'm wondering if I can do the following with regexp:

Take the title "Sonata No.5 for cello & continuo in E minor (Six Sonatas No.5), Op.14/5, RV 40: II. Allegro" and copy the "RV 40" string to a custom field. Like say search for the string "RV" in <Title> and copy it along with x amount of characters until reaching the character ":" because some RV #'s contain three digits like "RV 578"

Thanks ZvezdanD for your help with my earlier request.

[zephyr]

I want to take a title field which says the title, then " (feat. <featured artist>)" and move just the featured artist to the Involved people field and remove the " (feat. <featured artist>)" part from the title. How in good god's name do I do that with this program. Sorry, but with Steegy's extract fields script this was so easy, and I've spent 2 hours now trying to figure out how to do it with this script and I am no closer then when I started. I've searched this thread, read the intro (so many times) and some intros to regex, but this is very complicated and the intro is frankly poorly written and confusing.

Hi! Did you get this working?! Why did you stop using ExtractFields?

Curious Jonny

[vanderj]

Is there a way to keep a maximum of N items from from a multi-item field?
For example, if I wanted to keep 3 items, the regular expression would replace:

"aaa; bbb; ccc; ddd; eee" with "aaa; bbb; ccc"
"aaa; bbb; ccc; ddd" with "aaa; bbb; ccc"

But would not change the following:
"aaa; bbb; ccc"
"aaa; bbb"
"aaa"

I know there are presets to remove the last item or keep the first item but I can't figure out how to change them to get the result I want.
I'm looking for something like this where I include the number of items to keep in the expression. (This example removes that last three items instead of keeping the first three)

(;\s?[^;]*){3}$

Thanks,

[vanderj]

Is there a way to keep a maximum of N items from from a multi-item field?
For example, if I wanted to keep 3 items, the regular expression would replace:

"aaa; bbb; ccc; ddd; eee" with "aaa; bbb; ccc"
"aaa; bbb; ccc; ddd" with "aaa; bbb; ccc"

But would not change the following:
"aaa; bbb; ccc"
"aaa; bbb"
"aaa"

I finally got this to work. I'm not very experienced with regular expressions but it is good enough for me. This keeps a maximum of three fields (I have a limited set of characters I know are in the fields).

Find what: ([A-Za-z\s\-/&]+;\s)([A-Za-z\s\-/&]+;\s)([A-Za-z\s\-/&]+)(;\s)([^.?*]+)
Replace with: $1$2$3

[kobin]

Hello!
I have artist and song title together in field "title". For example : Jim Diamond - I Should Have Know Better. Can I move artist to field artist from song title by "Find & replace", because I don't know how to do it? I wont to have "Jim Diamond" in field "artist" and "I Should Have Know Better" in field "title".

Can you give me any example how to set "Find & replace" for it?

Thank you!

[NewbieMonkey]

I am trying to organize my collection, and ran into a wall with Split CD:s like the one i just described. The problem i currently have is when i auto-org. with MediaMonkey it creates SEPARATE FOLDERS for EACH artists on the same Album. Everytime it does this, i have to manually organize all the files into the same folder and rename the folder again and then remove the leftover folders, which is tedious.

Lets say i have an album which has 2 different artists and 2 songs, lets call Artist 1: "Emperor" and Artist 2: "Thorns". The songs on the album are: Track 1: "Emperor - I Am" & Track 2: "Thorns - Cosmic Keys" and the name of the album is "Split EP". The folder they are in is named "Emperor Thorns Split EP" (if it matters).

Now how would i be able to RENAME and Organize this album into JUST 1 folder named like this: "Emperor & Thorns -YEAR- Split EP".
So basically i would need to be able to have a scripts or regular expression or something that takes the names of both Artists from 2 different files (Track 1 and Track 2) Tags and puts them after each other with a "&" in between to create a Path and Filename, preferably the first artist on the album (Emperor) would be first, then the other but that is not the most important thing.

I know in theory how to achieve this and in my mind it sounds like a piece of cake, but this has proven to be an impossible nightmare of a simple thing, and i cannot figure this out (not an expert user of regular expressions and whatnot).

The problem really is that i cannot figure out how to ADD (not replace) text into a field between different tracks/files, as usually tag info is read only from 1 file at a time, otherwise the info isn't shown, the artist changes into <different> or whatever.

Hope i wrote things clearly enough and someone has a solution. Thanks.

PS. i have hundreds of Split CD:s so if i can avoid it, i would rather not Re-tag everything or type things manually.

[ZvezdanD]

Now how would i be able to RENAME and Organize this album into JUST 1 folder named like this: "Emperor & Thorns -YEAR- Split EP".

Yes, it is possible to do that with this add-on, although it requires knowledge not for regular expressions but VBScript and SQL.

There are some already predefined presets which are using the same approach, e.g. "Append weighted average Bitrate of album to the last folder of Path", "Assign total song length of all tracks from some folder to <Into field>", "Assign Genre if it is empty with value assigned to most tracks from same artist", "Assign weighted average Rating of album to <Into Field>..." and also some another - they all have in common that are assigning some value to some field depending of other files from the same album or artist or folder or some another specified field.

Also, if I remember correctly, there is a preset which I posted here some time ago which appends several artists from the same album to some another field of each file from that album.

Unfortunately, I don't have too much free time and I can help writing presets only to those who donate to my add-ons.

[Kevinowpb]

Web / URL.... removal...

Can this find and remove ALL references to any URL be it www.xxxxx.xxx or just name.xxx .. in ANY/ALL fields?

for ALL songs/tags...

(fyi. i have a library of 220k songs...)...

[Ashran]

Hi, I have a question :p

I have a serie of collection, named "Metal hard rock covers" followed by a digit. The trouble I have, it is that there is a lot of them, and there are sometime numbered with x, or xx, or even xxx, and I woud like to rename them to Metal hard rock covers xxxx. How would I do that with this plugin ?

edit: To be more clear, I sometime have Metal Hard Rock Covers 1, Metal Hard Rock Covers 01, Metal Hard Rock Covers 001 and I want to have Metal Hard Rock Covers 0001, up to Metal Hard Rock Covers 0649 (which is the last album for the moment but more are coming)

[skywalka]

Hi ZvezvdanD.

Thanks for sharing your hard work.

If I use:
Copy featuring artists or [(featuring artist)] from the end of Title to the end of Artist
on
songname (feat. artist2)
you end up with:
artist feat. artist2)
ie There is a close bracket but no open bracket. It would be great if there were no brackets in the artist field.

Thanks again.