Split Artist Title 2.0 [MM2]

[trixmoto]

Often FreeDB returns a compilation album with the Artist field as "Various" and the Title field with Artist - Title. This script is designed to fix this into Artist, Title and Album Artist.

If you find you have Title - Artist then you can use the swap variables to automatically fix this too!

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[Bex]

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

[SlasherMCT]

Hi - Nice script although I have found a couple of problems because my title fields contain title - artist.

1. I wasn't sure what to do with these lines, and I ended up with this
SwapFirst = false '(*) Swap artist and title field first?
SwapLast = true '(*) Swap artist and title field last?
- this works in the end but the preview screen still shows them the wrong way round

2. If you use swapfirst then the preview screen doesn't show at all and the script just swaps stuff around immediately.

3. Although it works the script leaves a trailing space in the title field - I think it would be best if resulting fields are stripped - as when I try to reorganise afterwards I get a space before the ".mp3" in the filename.

Thanks again

[trixmoto]

Blimey, I haven't used this script in a while! I'll take a look at it and see what I can do to improve it.

[SlasherMCT]

I don't suppose it is possible to put a radio button in the presented dialog to choose which way the split is done?

(Pushing my luck)



or possible a way of calling the script with a flag so that the same script can support both options from the ini file?

Thanks a lot - I'll hang off updating my VA's for a while - if you would like help testing I'll be glad to assist ...

[trixmoto]

Well you could make a copy of the script, and a copy of the INI entries, and have the parameters set differently in each. I will have a look at improving this though.

[Guest]

What can you do if the format is Artist / Song (not Artist - Song)?

thanks

[sperk]

Open the script file (.vbs) in a text editor and find line 61...

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pos = InStr(itm.title," - ")

Replace this with the following line...

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pos = InStr(itm.title," / ")

Thanks, worked like a charm. Great tool!

[trixmoto]

Open the script file (.vbs) in a text editor and find line 61...

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pos = InStr(itm.title," - ")

Replace this with the following line...

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pos = InStr(itm.title," / ")

[trixmoto]

I've had a proper look at this and now fully understand the SwapFirst and SwapLast variables.

The script always splits the Title field, so SwapFirst can be set to True if the values to be split are in the Artist field (as these will be swapped into the Title field before splitting).

The script assumes it is "<Artist> - <Title>", so if it is the other way round then you can set SwapLast to True to swap them round after splitting.

I am currently rewriting the script almost completely, and in the new version these variables will not exist. Might help you for now though!

[SlasherMCT]

Thanks for re-writing. May I suggest you design it so that the separator can be in a variable or passed in to handle separators like "-" or "/"

I'll wait for the rewrite - cheers

[trixmoto]

New version (2.0) is now available from my website. Changes include...

- Fixed HTML written directly to document
- Removed album artist (would normally we "Various")
- Added delimiter option
- Added artist and title fields trimmed
- Added options on the confirmation screen

Please let me know what you think of the new version!

[SlasherMCT]

Ooooh that works a charm - I was a bit stupid at first and didn't realise that I need to press Split again after swap, but now I have that taped it works a treat.

You are a god of scripting and I salute you!

I also picked up your preview script which is really useful too.

Highly recommended, thanks.

[trixmoto]

I'm glad you like!

[Guest]

Open the script file (.vbs) in a text editor and find line 61...

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pos = InStr(itm.title," - ")

Replace this with the following line...

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pos = InStr(itm.title," / ")

hi,
I've got a new wrinkle: artist/title with no space. I tried "/" in the above mentioned line but it didn't work.
thanks