full path without drive letter) is only available for m3u. I've just implemented this on my library of around 36,000 mp3s because my Sony NW-A35 either doesn't recognize m3u8 playlist format, that I gather from elsewhere in the forum is needed to deal with non-ASCII characters, or it can't find the playlists as the option that works for generating the right file paths for the playlists (. The nice thing is, once you've built the replace() expression for one category (like Name for example), you can reuse it for the others. If it uses a dozen or more, it's going to require a lot of careful evaluation and testing. If your song collection only references 4, 5, 6 characters with accents, this might not be too bad. My example above only replaces 4 sets of characters. The real work here is building up the replace() expressions. For example, you might make the directory rule: So now you can use Rename, Move, and Copy to rename the files based on these new fields.
Now all of your new non-accented fields are populated. Make sure your replace() expression references the correct field: to populate Artist_ascii and to populate Album_ascii. Repeat the above with Artist and Album if you want, pasting into the Artist_ascii and Album_ascii fields. Paste in the replace expression with an = sign in front like this:Ĭode: =replace(replace(replace(replace(,à, a),á, a), é, e), ó, o) Let's say you are working on Name, so we are going to find the Name_ascii field. Press Alt- to bring up the tagging pane on the left.ģ. This could be just a few files, or hundreds or thousands. Highlight a group of files you want to work on. To add these fields, go to: Tools > Options > Library & Folders > Manage Library Fields > Add New Fieldġ. You just want a container to hold the new strings that don't have accents. This is necessary because you don't want to overwrite the data in your Name, Album, or Artist fields.
Next step:īuild a new Library field for each field you want to use in your file name. This works on the name field, but could be applied to Artist or Album or whatever.
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