Renaming mp3

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Renaming mp3

Postby braciata » Mon Mar 16, 2015 8:18 pm

Hello!

I would like to rename mp3s like this:

Artist & whatever - Title
to
Artist - Title (With whatever)

This is what I do:
(.+) \& (.+) - (.+)
\1 - \3 (With \2)

This work for simple names...

On this one it doesn't work
Dr. Dre & Eminem & Skylar Grey - I Need A Doctor
Probably because there are two &

I would like that whatever is after the 1st & goes after 'WIth'
Is that possible?

Thx in advance.
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Re: Renaming mp3

Postby bitmonger » Thu Apr 02, 2015 1:08 am

This requires a simple fix.
Your Match in the regex was: (.+) \& (.+) - (.+).
The problem is the first (.+) is greedy and initially matches the whole filename, then backtracks until it hits the first \& and stops. To prevent this we make the + quantifier lazy by putting a ? after it.
So try the following for your match pattern:
(.+?) \& (.+) - (.+)

This will match the first \& no matter how many are in the filename.

Hope this helps,
Bit
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Re: Renaming mp3

Postby braciata » Wed Apr 08, 2015 8:28 am

Sorry I didn't received a confimration mail of your answer.
This fix works perfectly and it helped me on another task as well. I wanted to remove the comma on artist name and it worked only when it contained just 2 words.

Michael, George & Queen > George & Queen Michael

This is what I had with more than 2 words!

Thanks a lot!

Fabrizio.
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