Reformat 'album' tag

[simbun]

If you really do want to avoid making tag changes you could use foobar2000 to generate the tagUpdate file for you - as long as your album names do all follow a certain pattern.

Using the component foo_utils (http://foosion.foobar2000.org/components/?id=utils) you can create a custom export script, something like:

Code:

#Header    
#Body
@ALBUM=%album%$crlf()
=ALBUM=$trim($substr(%album%,$add($strchr(%album%,'-'),1),$sub($strrchr(%album%,'['),1)))$crlf()
#Footer

This will create a replacement entry for every item in your Library selection, which whilst it doesn't seem to cause a problem for MinimServer (at least in my test of 3 items) it's best to limit it to one per album, so maybe a filter something like: ALBUM HAS [ AND ALBUM HAS - AND TRACKNUMBER IS 01

Then just select all the items in the Library selection, Right Click -> Legacy Commands (unsorted) -> Copy Text, and paste it into a tagUpdate file.