A couple of really useful additions please!

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A couple of really useful additions please!

Postby bigi » Wed Mar 26, 2025 2:05 am

I use BRU every day for renaming and reformatting my music and video collections - some download purchases and the rest from my own collection.

I have now got over 160 items in the Replace list, which covers a lot of things, but some need to be done before others, some after. the only solution at the moment is to create a new entry in the pop out window "+" and then manually using the up arrow to manually scroll 160 times to get to the top of the list! I'm aware I could manually edit the list in the config file, but what would be really great is if we could have an option to move an entry to the top of the list and to the bottom? What would be even better would be if it would be possible to insert above/below an existing entry, but understand that might present some manipulation issues!

My other suggestion is having the ability to have multiple wildcard choices within the rename section. at the moment I can replace 2021-WEB-FLAC using 20*-WEB-FLAC > 20*; but what would be good would be if i could do 2021-WEB-FLAC and 2021-VINYL-FLAC using a single line "20* [*1]-*" to enable output of "2021 [VINYL]"

I have also noticed what I think(!) is a glitch in the remove section; if a have a multi word removal, even within ||, it seems to remove either word, not only a whole match. not sure if that's intentional and i don't know how to do it properly or a bug of some sort?

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Re: A couple of really useful additions please!

Postby TheGhost78 » Wed Mar 26, 2025 3:12 pm

bigi wrote:My other suggestion is having the ability to have multiple wildcard choices within the rename section. at the moment I can replace 2021-WEB-FLAC using 20*-WEB-FLAC > 20*; but what would be good would be if i could do 2021-WEB-FLAC and 2021-VINYL-FLAC using a single line "20* [*1]-*" to enable output of "2021 [VINYL]"


Try RegEx (1):
Match: (19|20)(\d{2})-(\w+)-(\w*)
Replace: \1\2 [\3]
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Re: A couple of really useful additions please!

Postby TheGhost78 » Wed Mar 26, 2025 3:14 pm

bigi wrote:I have also noticed what I think(!) is a glitch in the remove section; if a have a multi word removal, even within ||, it seems to remove either word, not only a whole match. not sure if that's intentional and i don't know how to do it properly or a bug of some sort?


Try putting the longest match first in the list.
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Re: A couple of really useful additions please!

Postby bigi » Wed Mar 26, 2025 7:07 pm

Thanks for the helpful replies!
The regex is useful (thanks!), I am using regex for a number of adaptations already, the example I have was just an example of why I’d like multiple wildcard options in the replace field.

With regards to the second point, I did try this in a few situations and it was losing one of the words (seemed to be the second word)
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Re: A couple of really useful additions please!

Postby Admin » Sat Mar 29, 2025 2:12 am

bigi wrote:I have now got over 160 items in the Replace list, which covers a lot of things, but some need to be done before others, some after. the only solution at the moment is to create a new entry in the pop out window "+" and then manually using the up arrow to manually scroll 160 times to get to the top of the list! I'm aware I could manually edit the list in the config file, but what would be really great is if we could have an option to move an entry to the top of the list and to the bottom? What would be even better would be if it would be possible to insert above/below an existing entry, but understand that might present some manipulation issues!


Hi, I think the + button should insert below the current position and we should have a move item to top or bottom.

bigi wrote:My other suggestion is having the ability to have multiple wildcard choices within the rename section. at the moment I can replace 2021-WEB-FLAC using 20*-WEB-FLAC > 20*; but what would be good would be if i could do 2021-WEB-FLAC and 2021-VINYL-FLAC using a single line "20* [*1]-*" to enable output of "2021 [VINYL]"


I will check this

bigi wrote:I have also noticed what I think(!) is a glitch in the remove section; if a have a multi word removal, even within ||, it seems to remove either word, not only a whole match. not sure if that's intentional and i don't know how to do it properly or a bug of some sort?
Keep up the amazing work - love the latest updates!


Are you referring to Remove (5) > Words ?

Thank you for the feedback :)
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Re: A couple of really useful additions please!

Postby bigi » Sat Mar 29, 2025 2:26 am

Thanks for the feedback! The idea re move to top and bottom sounds ideal!

The multi wildcard would be helpful if it’s possible as well!

Finally, yes I’m talking about the words section in remove. It doesn’t seem to handle spacing either - I’ve found adding a space either side of a word makes it not work in some cases - not sure if it’s meant to as I guess white space is technically not a word :)

Otherwise absolutely love this app - use it all the time and swear by it!
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Re: A couple of really useful additions please!

Postby Admin » Mon Mar 31, 2025 8:02 am

Regarding the names:

2021-VINYL-FLAC.png to 2021-VINYL.png
2021-WEB-FLAC.png to 2021-WEB.png

This can be done with:

Replace : 20*-*-*
With : 20*-*

However Replace with masks ? and * , does not support re-arranging the order.

For that you need to use \regex\ in Replace or RegEx (1).

2021-VINYL-FLAC.png to 2021-FLAC-VINYL.png
2021-WEB-FLAC.png to 2021-FLAC-WEB.png

Replace: \regex\20(.*)-(.*)-(.*)
With: 20$1-$3-$2
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Re: A couple of really useful additions please!

Postby Admin » Mon Mar 31, 2025 8:06 am

I have also noticed what I think(!) is a glitch in the remove section; if a have a multi word removal, even within ||, it seems to remove either word, not only a whole match. not sure if that's intentional and i don't know how to do it properly or a bug of some sort?


Remove (5) > Words will remove all words listed separated by a space, e.g. File Size removes File and Size. It can't be used for multiple words e.g. "File Size".
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Re: A couple of really useful additions please!

Postby Admin » Sun Apr 13, 2025 8:04 am

Added to 4.0.0.7:
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