Lucky me, MM4 came just-in-time

Just tested the <Length> and it's working as I was looking for.

Great, many thx to all for the support.
I'll now certainly go for Gold

wquatan wrote: i'll have a look where I can find MM4

It is the current release as of yesterday, you can get it from the download page.

Just checked it under MM 3.2.4.1304 and it does indeed not work in that build so I believe your only option is to upgrade to MM4 if you want to use this feature.

It doesn't matter if you capitalize it or not. So it's possible this doesn't work in MM3, only in MM4.

nohitter151 wrote:

Onweerwolf wrote:Note: this was tested with MM4, I have no idea if it is possible under MM3.

Thank you for pointing that out, I must have missed when that was added. But it definitely works in 1459.

Ok, these replies came while re-testing and replying.
i'll have a look where I can find MM4

Onweerwolf wrote:It's definitely possible to do this. Just use the mask <length> and it will add the song length to your filename replacing ":" with "-". You could probably use the replace function to change the "-" to a " ' " if you want.

Please tell me how, as (in the past and now) I tried <length> and <Length> (the same way as I do for <Bitrate> which works) but instead of adding the song length, the mask itself is added.

I'm using Mediamonkey 3.2.5.1306

Thanks

Onweerwolf wrote:Note: this was tested with MM4, I have no idea if it is possible under MM3.

Thank you for pointing that out, I must have missed when that was added. But it definitely works in 1459.

Note: this was tested with MM4, I have no idea if it is possible under MM3.

It's definitely possible to do this. Just use the mask <length> and it will add the song length to your filename replacing ":" with "-". You could probably use the replace function to change the "-" to a " ' " if you want.

That's really a pitty, I will need to continue using two programs ....

Why not return the value as seconds (in the assumption there are calculation possibilities when used) , or substituting the ":" by a single quote to avoid the Windows-filename-problem (see example in first post) ?

Length is purposely left out of the mask possibilities because the character : is not allowed by windows filesystems for file paths.

Thanks for replying.

That's the document I found and referred to as "Mask Reference"

However it says "The table below describes most of the commonly used characters and fields in a mask. "

I don't think that's possible: http://www.mediamonkey.com/sw/webhelp/f ... ormats.htm

I'm new to Mediamonkey, and I'm trying to replace the dedicated Tag-tool (MP3TAG) by Mediamonkey's features.
In MP3TAG I used to add to the filenames a "[5'45-320]" standing for "[duration-bitrate]"

In the meanwhile I found in Mediamonkey the "Mask Reference" and also the <Bitrate>. However I can't find anything to retrieve the duration/length.

In MP3TAG I could retrieve that in seconds and have the requested result above with a calculation : '$div(%_length_seconds%,60)''$num($mod(%_length_seconds%,60),2)'

I would like to know how I can get access via the Mask to the duration/length and eventually to other tags not specified in the Mask Reference

Thx