RegExp Find & Replace 4.3 w/ 253 presets (2011-07-06) [MM2+]

[ZvezdanD]

Here is the excerpt from the Installation section of the first post of this thread:
"if you are on Vista or Win7 and you got "Product installation error", make sure you have MM3 set to "Run as Administrator"."

It is written when the MM3 and Win7 was actual, but it applies to MM4 and Win >= 8 as well.

The another solution with MM4 is to turn on the option "Install for the current user only (doesn't require admin rights)" when installing the add-ons.

[Guest]

Wow impressive job. Thanks.
I found the list overwhelming so thanks for making it so that given choices could be deleted or else going through that whole list every time one wants to change something would have taken forever.
In my case I don't understand script therefore I have the following questions regarding their meaning
What do the following symbols mean within the quotes excluding the commas " ( ), [ ], ..., <>,
& what do the following words mean within the quotes, '' into field, from field '' seen written as "' <into field>, <from field>''
I'm asking myself "Into or From what field?
I think it would have been a good idea if we actually saw before & after examples displayed so we know what each script means exactly/how the change will look like.
In my case I am interested in doing the following (if the commands are there I don't see them or rather understand them as being as such).
-1- The most important thing to me something that seems we can do with lyrics but nothing else is changing a song title or album title the way it would be written in a sentence, in other words only the 1st word capitalized and nothing else.
A Dog Gone For The Whole Summer At John's House
would be changed to: A dog gone for the whole summer at john's house
Even better is if it kept grammar rules whereby 'John's' in this case would remain capital
-2- I would like all "Remix" OR 'remix' to show as 'rmx' and "Mix" or ''mix'' to show as 'mx'
-3- and "Featuring" and/or "featuring" and/or "Feat." or "feat." as '' ft ''
I see we can do this with lyrics but not song title or Album
Are these features/choices already there (if so which are they)? and if not how can I add them/create them?
Thank you

[chrisjj]

Zvezdan, in case you're unaware, the images are missing from the root post: http://i.imgur.com/AXjYcff.png

[chrisjj]

Trying the current download from the root message, RegExp Find and Replace V4.3, on MM 1708 on Win 7 Pro 64-bit with Windows Classic desktop theme.

1 "Find what ... Into" http://i.imgur.com/gGsDSlO.png does not make sense in English. I think what is meant is "Find what ... In"
2 The "n selected tracks" button label http://i.imgur.com/gGsDSlO.png overfills the button
3 When I try this Replace of any Track Volume value with null http://i.imgur.com/0InqTl0.png, I get an error Microsoft VBScript compilation error: http://i.imgur.com/Vo3hfW5.png
4 When Track Volume is null, Old Track Volume shows a nonsense value: http://i.imgur.com/hGjdPQF.png . Replace All gives a different error: http://i.imgur.com/HsQapX8.png
5 The Find Next button can b unexpectedly disabled http://i.imgur.com/COZAtaD.png (http://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/viewto ... =2&t=28510 says "in the Find what text box you could enter string which you want to find inside of the MM field specified in the Into dropdown list, and after click on the Find Next button you should get the first track which contain matching criteria.")
6 The Find Next button on http://i.imgur.com/COZAtaD.png becomes enabled if I click the 'n selected tracks' button twice http://i.imgur.com/nq5JU8d.png, but then clicking Find Next does nothing except disable the button.
7 Here http://i.imgur.com/ILnDoNK.png clicking Find Next does nothing initially, but repeated does eventually scroll the (unlabelled) list. Perhaps it is finding a match but just failing to highlight the match.
8 It would be nice to have preset to delete Album Volume, to fix this problem: http://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/viewto ... se#p396569
9 Given that Tag Manipulation Presets actually manipluates metadata in tags and dabase, I think that command name is misleading. Better would be Metadata Manipulation Presets.

[ZvezdanD]

1 "Find what ... Into" http://i.imgur.com/gGsDSlO.png does not make sense in English. I think what is meant is "Find what ... In"

Well, English is not my native language and I though that "in" is the same as "into". I didn't want to use such short label as "In", so I decided to use "Into". It would be unpractical to change that now because of the compatibility with the existing presets since they have "Into" word in them. Also, there is "<Into Field>" tag that exists in many presets which is related to the value set in the Into combo box.

Besides, the new version (which is in development) will have an option to switch roles for Into and From combo boxes, i.e. it could have "Find what ... From" and "Replace with ... Into". With that new option it will be possible to search for one field and replace value in some another field (the current version allows only to replace value of the same field that is searching, unless some hacking that could be done using VBScript expressions with the Execute statement as it is used in the "Swap <From Field> and <Into Field>" preset). "Find what ... From" and "Replace with ... In" doesn't make sense in English anyway.

2 The "n selected tracks" button label http://i.imgur.com/gGsDSlO.png overfills the button

That is already changed in the new version.

3 When I try this Replace of any Track Volume value with null http://i.imgur.com/0InqTl0.png, I get an error Microsoft VBScript compilation error: http://i.imgur.com/Vo3hfW5.png
4 When Track Volume is null, Old Track Volume shows a nonsense value: http://i.imgur.com/hGjdPQF.png . Replace All gives a different error: http://i.imgur.com/HsQapX8.png

The Track Volume database field is numerical and it cannot be empty. MediaMonkey uses -999999 value internally when it is unspecified. You should not use the empty string if you want to clear that field, as you could see if you select the "Reset Track Volume field" preset.

5 The Find Next button can b unexpectedly disabled http://i.imgur.com/COZAtaD.png
6 The Find Next button on http://i.imgur.com/COZAtaD.png becomes enabled if I click the 'n selected tracks' button twice http://i.imgur.com/nq5JU8d.png, but then clicking Find Next does nothing except disable the button.
7 Here http://i.imgur.com/ILnDoNK.png clicking Find Next does nothing initially, but repeated does eventually scroll the (unlabelled) list.

The Find Next button is not unexpectedly disabled. When that button is disabled that means that there is no more tracks that could be searched in the current direction (e.g. if you have selected 10 tracks and the current one is 10th), or the finding is done with all tracks without any matching. You could toggle "Backward search direction" and it might be enabled again.

8 It would be nice to have preset to delete Album Volume

There is already the "Reset Track Volume field" preset that could be user-modified changing the Track Volume in the Into combo box to the Album Volume, then you could save it as the new preset by click on the Add button. That is just two or three clicks and a few keystrokes to rename the preset. There are already too much included presets, for most users they are overwhelming and if I start to add such trivial presets that requires two or three clicks to customize some existing preset then nobody would like that.

9 Given that Tag Manipulation Presets actually manipluates metadata in tags and dabase, I think that command name is misleading. Better would be Metadata Manipulation Presets.

I didn't see that anybody is complaining to the author of the MP3Tag for the name of his program. There are also many other programs which have Tag in their name even when they store metadata in their databases. Many users don't know what is the "metadata", but many of them are heard for the "tag".

Anyway, thanks for the reports and suggestions.

[chrisjj]

"Find what ... From" and "Replace with ... In" doesn't make sense in English anyway.

"Find what ... From" does not makes sense. "Replace with ... In" does make sense.

The Track Volume database field is numerical and it cannot be empty.

Since the MM UI does allow empty, I suggest the script should make the necessary conversion. They user should not have to guess from a VB conversion error whatever workaround is needed for an internal representation limitation.

MediaMonkey uses -999999 value internally when it is unspecified.

OK, so I shall use -999999 to represent empty.

I suggest the script would be better if its UI input value interpretation was consistent with that MediaMonkey UI's.

You should not use the empty string if you want to clear that field

I suggest it would be better for the script not to fail with a VB script compilation error just because it accepted a UI input value that it cannot further process.

The Find Next button is not unexpectedly disabled. When that button is disabled that means that there is no more tracks that could be searched in the current direction (e.g. if you have selected 10 tracks and the current one is 10th)...

I was unexpected by me, since there's no such mention in the docs and no visible indication of current.

There is already the "Reset Track Volume field" that could be user-modified changing the Track Volume in the Into combo box to the Album Volume

Thanks.

9 Given that Tag Manipulation Presets actually manipluates metadata in tags and dabase, I think that command name is misleading. Better would be Metadata Manipulation Presets.

I didn't see that anybody is complaining to the author of the MP3Tag for the name of his program.

The only metadata Mp3tag manipulates is in the tag. Your program is manipulating data in the database.

Many users don't know what is the "metadata", but many of them are heard for the "tag".

The MediaMonkey UI uses tag to refer to the tag, not the database record. I think it would be nice if your script accorded.

Thank you for the improvements.

[dalarath]

Hi,

First of all I want to thank you for making this great plugin. I'm looking forward to the new version and I'm seriously considering to support you work.

Until that, I want to inform about a possible error:

I'm running MM 4.1.1.1703 Gold and everyting works fine besides the buttons. When I check the options to HIDE the buttons (icons) on the toolbar, initialy they hide but when I click anywhere they unhide by their own and even appears a new one (see image below) with no dialog box

[ZvezdanD]

When I check the options to HIDE the buttons (icons) on the toolbar, initialy they hide but when I click anywhere they unhide by their own

This is caused by the bug of the program itself that I already reported to MM developers: http://www.ventismedia.com/mantis/view.php?id=12074

[Hdhntr23]

Hey guys,

Im curious if anyone can tell me some tricks to get "feat. xyz" from artist to song title?

Where will it put it in the song title? I have a lot of remixes and Im wondering if it will put it before the remix name or after? (in parenthesis)

Thanks!

[MMuser2011]

Have a look at the 253 presets.
You will find several entries like
"Copy featuring artists or [(featuring artists)] from the end of Artist to the end of Title"
or
"Copy featuring artists from the end of Artist to the end of Title and put them within ( )"
or
"Copy ft. artists from the end of <From Field> to the end of <Into Field> and put them in ( )..."

It should be easy to adjust it to your needs.

[pintree3]

Thanks for this--really great
Unfortunately for me, unless I'm wrong, the one feature I came here for does not seem to exist.
You have:
1- Uppercase first letter of each folder/filename of Path
2- Uppercase first letter of each line or sentence of Lyrics and lowercase others
3- Uppercase only first letter of each line or sentence of Lyrics, others unchanged
The 1st seem to be according to the actual file and not what you see within MM
The other 2 interest me except not for lyrics but for the actual song title (or even album name and artist)
So song title / artist / album
would be corrected from
''I Love What You Think Of That Guy Who Refused To Accept What She Said''
to
''I love what you think of that guy who refused to accept what she said''
I really, really hate these super long titles that bands think are cool for some reason.
Actually considering long titles I wouldn't mind a command line that
replaces common words such as 'your' to 'ur', 'you' to 'u', 'and' to &', 'with' to 'w'
Oh and here's another idea, if I may, What of limiting a title to a given number of characters, for ex. 22, followed by 3 dots.
So the above title would go from.
''I love what you think of that guy who refused to accept what she said''
to
''I love what you think...''

Thank you

[kluv]

Will this Addon get updated anytime soon? Was wondering if you could add an auto function. I have about 7 presets I do on my music and if I could just push a button so that it runs thru all of them automatically that would be swell.

Thanks and thanks for developing RegExp, I use this program more than any other and it's been a life saver. Thanks again and have a Merry Christimas!!

[ZvezdanD]

Will this Addon get updated anytime soon?

The new version is in development, but I don't know when it will be finished since that depends on donations.

[popsmike]

Will this Addon get updated anytime soon?

The new version is in development, but I don't know when it will be finished since that depends on donations.

Keep us posted on the update ZvezdanD we always welcome your new Scripts, they are as the Americans say "Awesome"
and some people will definitely contribute to your work!!

[rfhmediamonkey]

In my Media Monkey Library version 4.1.5 under Artist & Album Artist, I'm trying to remove the title of song from artist field.

Example: Under the Title field it shows "A Horse with No Name" which is okay. Under the Artist field it shows, "A Horse with No Name America". It should only show under the Artist field as "America".

I have used RegExp Find/Replace and Auto-Tag from Filename but still haven't found a solution. Also, cannot find a preset or filename format to get this resolved.

Can you fix this with the correct script or do you have any other suggestions?

Thank you.