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

[ZvezdanD]

I do not know of a way to identify all the affected tracks.

If you are talking about a bug reported in the Beta forum, gege has a Magic Node to display only affected tracks - he said they have exactly 200 characters of lyrics and "..." on the end.

Is there a way for RegEx to find tracks that have lyrics greater than 1 line but less than 10?

Find what:

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^(.*\r\n){1,10}.*$

RegExp 1: checked

[nynaevelan]

Thank you, it worked perfectly and yes that is the bug I am referring to. I will start with the tracks identified in Gege's node first.

Nyn

[gege]

I will start with the tracks identified in Gege's node first.

You're welcome!

[nynaevelan]

I will start with the tracks identified in Gege's node first.

You're welcome!

Thank you.

[Kevinowpb]

New Question I asked creator and he mentioned I should post to this forum for everyone to see:



Question:

I have a bunch (hundreds) of file names / tags from a 13 gig compilation with the file and tag format of name.artist.album.albumartist.track.title.mp3
... they made it with periods between each word... even in the middle of their name.. ie Britney.Spears-Baby.Hit.Me.One.More.Time-Best.Of.Britney.Spears.mp3

How do I find all periods (.) and replace with spaces?

Response:
re:how do you/ do I do this in your Replace script..?

Sent at: Sat Jun 06, 2009 1:52 pm
From: ZvezdanD
To: Kevinowpb
Well, if it is some normal field like Title or Artist then a solution could be really simple - the Find what string should have a period (".") and the Replace with string should have a space character(" "). However, since a Path field could contain a regular period characters, at least between the filename and the extension, than you should use following settings:


Find what:

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([^\.\\]*?(?:\.+[^\.\\]+?)+)(\.[^\.\\]+)$
Into: Path
Regular expression 1: checked

Replace with:
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Replace("$1", ".", " ") & "$2"

VBScript expression: checked

**Keep in mind that with those settings you would get all periods in the filename replaced with spaces, even if they are after some abbreviations, like U.S.A. or feat. or something similar.

By the way, this question is intriguing and I recommend posting such questions directly in the Forum thread, since many users could be interested to know an answer to it.

[Kevinowpb]

And... IT WORKED PERFECTLY!!!

THANK YOU!

New Question I asked creator and he mentioned I should post to this forum for everyone to see:



Question:

I have a bunch (hundreds) of file names / tags from a 13 gig compilation with the file and tag format of name.artist.album.albumartist.track.title.mp3
... they made it with periods between each word... even in the middle of their name.. ie Britney.Spears-Baby.Hit.Me.One.More.Time-Best.Of.Britney.Spears.mp3

How do I find all periods (.) and replace with spaces?

Response:
re:how do you/ do I do this in your Replace script..?

Sent at: Sat Jun 06, 2009 1:52 pm
From: ZvezdanD
To: Kevinowpb
Well, if it is some normal field like Title or Artist then a solution could be really simple - the Find what string should have a period (".") and the Replace with string should have a space character(" "). However, since a Path field could contain a regular period characters, at least between the filename and the extension, than you should use following settings:


Find what:

Code: Select all
([^\.\\]*?(?:\.+[^\.\\]+?)+)(\.[^\.\\]+)$
Into: Path
Regular expression 1: checked

Replace with:
Code: Select all
Replace("$1", ".", " ") & "$2"

VBScript expression: checked

**Keep in mind that with those settings you would get all periods in the filename replaced with spaces, even if they are after some abbreviations, like U.S.A. or feat. or something similar.

By the way, this question is intriguing and I recommend posting such questions directly in the Forum thread, since many users could be interested to know an answer to it.

[barkoz]

Can someone tell me how to capitalise the first letter of each WORD (lowercaseing others) in the Lyrics/Comment without getting I'M, Don'T etc.
I had this right once.... but a crash and burn with XP... It's killing me... now my brain is about to crash and burn. HELP! LOL
Barkoz

[ZvezdanD]

how to capitalise the first letter of each WORD (lowercaseing others) in the Lyrics/Comment without getting I'M, Don'T etc.

Did you try the "Capitalize the Title" preset with the Lyrics set in the Into drop-down list? Are you sure that you have single apostrophe in I'm, Don't? Maybe it is acute/grave accent or single quotation mark. If this is a case, you could first use the "Replace acute/grave accent and single quotation mark with the apostrophe" preset, or you could use following modified Find what string with the Capitalize preset:

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([\w\xDF-\xF6\xF8-\xFF\u0100-\u024F\u0400-\u04FF])([\w'´`’‘\xDF-\xF6\xF8-\xFF\u0100-\u024F\u0400-\u04FF]*)

If I remember correctly, I already posted such preset before, maybe even to you...

[barkoz]

ZvezdanD wrote

Are you sure that you have single apostrophe in I'm, Don't? Maybe it is acute/grave accent or single quotation mark. If this is a case, you could first use the "Replace acute/grave accent and single quotation mark with the apostrophe" preset,

That was it... Thank'S mate, dum dum didn'T know what grave accents were. LOL

[CarlG]

Thanks for a great script - as I use it more, I continue to learn how powerful it can be.

However, the number of presets has become unwieldy, and I share people's request for a way to organize them, perhaps into nested folders.

Is there also a way to delete presets without having them reappear upon updating? If not, is there a way to update just the master script, then somehow manually load the new presets?

Thanks, Carl.

[ZvezdanD]

is there a way to update just the master script, then somehow manually load the new presets?

Of course you could update just the script file. During the installation when the dialog box asking "Would you like to add the x new sample presets from the install package?" appears, just choose "No". And of course you could manually load the new presets - just choose Edit / RegExp Export/Import and in new dialog choose File - C:\Program Files\MediaMonkey\Scripts\Auto\RegExpReplace.ini

[CarlG]

Great - thanks. I'll give this a try with your next update.

Cheers, Carl.

[TuRDMaN]

Hi, I'm trying to write a couple presets but can't quite get them right.

First, I have my Artist tags set up as Artist (feat. Artist2, Artist3 & Artist4), and I'd like to change them to the multi-artist format (Artist1; Artist2; Artist3; Artist4)
The best I've managed to do is replace (feat. | , | & with ; but that ends up leaving the trailing ) at the end, which I have to clean up with another preset.

Also, I would like to make a preset to extract Album Artist from the path (ex. P:\MP3\Albums\ARTIST- Album\song.mp3) and replace the Album Artist tag with it. I'm pretty sure I could do this one using lookbehind, but lookbehind isn't implemented in this script (is it?)

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

[ZvezdanD]

I have my Artist tags set up as Artist (feat. Artist2, Artist3 & Artist4), and I'd like to change them to the multi-artist format (Artist1; Artist2; Artist3; Artist4)
The best I've managed to do is replace (feat. | , | & with ; but that ends up leaving the trailing ) at the end, which I have to clean up with another preset.

The next preset will replace all feat. pres. vs. with ";" and remove ending parentheses no matter what is inside of them, so you should check the result before you choose the Replace command (you could expand the preset further to check cases when parentheses don't contain featuring artists, but it would be more complicated):
Find what:

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^.*

Into: Artist
Regular expression 1: checked
Replace with:

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RegSub(RegSub("$&", "\s?\b(&|feat\.?|featuring|features|ft\.?|presenting|presents|pres\.?|versus|vs\.?)\s", "; "), "(.+)\s\(([^)]*)\)$", "$$1$$2")

VBScript expression: checked

I would like to make a preset to extract Album Artist from the path (ex. P:\MP3\Albums\ARTIST- Album\song.mp3) and replace the Album Artist tag with it.

I think Auto-Tag from Filename would be easier, but if you are still interested you could try with:
Find what:

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^.*

Into: Album Artist
Regular expression 1: checked
Replace with:

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RegExp(RegExpEx(oSongData.Path, "\\([^\\]+)\\([^\\]+)\.([^\.\\]+)$", 0, 0), "^([^-]*)(?=\s-\s.*)", 0)

VBScript expression: checked

I'm pretty sure I could do this one using lookbehind, but lookbehind isn't implemented in this script (is it?)

Wow, you know Regular expressions very well if you are aware about lookbehind. Yeah, this is something which is missing really badly, but unfortunately it is not a problem with my script, but with the VBScript implementation of the Regular expressions. You should blame Micro$oft for this.

[TuRDMaN]

Wow, you know Regular expressions very well if you are aware about lookbehind. Yeah, this is something which is missing really badly, but unfortunately it is not a problem with my script, but with the VBScript implementation of the Regular expressions. You should blame Micro$oft for this.

Ah, good to know. When in doubt, blame Micro$oft!

Thanks for all the help, I'll go try it out now!


Edit: With a little modification, the first preset is working exactly how I would like it to, and the 2nd worked just fine the way it was. Thanks again for the help!