Move everything prior to "-" to the end of file name

[esumsea]

Hello Everyone! I am new here. Trying to figure out how to use these scripts but not having much success.

So I come to you gurus for help.

I have a bunch of files in the format:
Angela Hewitt - Beethoven, Piano Sonatas Vol. 1 (2006) [SACD] {Hyperion}

I Would like to change it to:
Beethoven - Piano Sonatas Vol. 1 (2006) [SACD] {Hyperion} (Angela Hewitt)

There are also some that do not have the comma problem, so I would like a version of the script that would also deal with that. For example:
Duo Lechner Tiempo - La Belle Epoque (2009) [SACD] {Pure Music}
To
La Belle Epoque (2009) [SACD] {Pure Music} (Duo Lechner Tiempo)

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

[therube]

Well, that sure wasn't easy, & don't know that I even understand the answer, but it looks like this will do it:

1:RegEx

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Match: ([\s\S]*?)(\s-\s)(.*)
Replace: \3 (\1)


The problem I ran into was if there were other hyphens in the word (like "Angela-Hewitt - Beethoven.*", otherwise it was relatively easy).
Pulled the idea from hlcs's post here,https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2404010/match-everything-except-for-specified-strings.


Oh, I didn't realize your comma issue in the first example.


Then also include...

3:Replace

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Replace: ,
With: <sp>-


That will replace all , with <sp>-.