Track Number starts with Letter (sorting related)

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Re: Track Number starts with Letter (sorting related)

Post by BKKKPewsey » Tue Jun 05, 2012 3:22 pm

If you use RegExp find & replace just use Find What \D into Track # with Reg expression 1 ticked and leave the replace with box empty.
That will blank out the A and B letters and just leave the numerical digits.
You can then re-run it on the same tracks with the predefined preset Add leading zero to single-digit Track number

Re: Track Number starts with Letter (sorting related)

Post by nohitter151 » Tue Jun 05, 2012 12:57 pm

MMUSER3456 wrote:I just got and tried that extension, but it didn't help.

The track numbers are still
A1
A10
A11
...>
A19
A2
A3
...
It didnt put a leading zero into A1 (making it A01 so at least track sorting could work right). Is there something im missing?

I think the script only works if the track numbers are numbers, the letters in there break it. You will need to use the RegExp find & replace addon.

Re: Track Number starts with Letter (sorting related)

Post by MMUSER3456 » Tue Jun 05, 2012 12:09 pm

I just got and tried that extension, but it didn't help.

The track numbers are still
A1
A10
A11
...>
A19
A2
A3
...
It didnt put a leading zero into A1 (making it A01 so at least track sorting could work right). Is there something im missing?

Re: Track Number starts with Letter (sorting related)

Post by Lowlander » Tue Jun 05, 2012 11:32 am

Track Number starts with Letter (sorting related)

Post by MMUSER3456 » Tue Jun 05, 2012 11:13 am

Hello

I have many albums that are vinyl rips. The track numbers often look like A1, A2, A3, B1, B2, B3 and so on. The problem is that I want to change these track numbers to the standard 01,02,03 from the first track on side A to the last track on side B. To do this, I simply want to sort the tracks by number, but with the letter or absence of a leading 0 in some of the numbers, sorting is all wrong.

Sorting in MM looks like
A1
A10
A11
A12
...
A9
B1
B10
B11
...
etc, so simply clicking the track column to sort, selecting, and then using the track increment script wont work.

How can I most efficiently convert this format of track numbering to the standard zero leading number?

Thank you!

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