Podcast Filename Mask - Need Help

sugardaddy · Post by **sugardaddy** » Wed Jan 09, 2008 2:06 pm

This is my current mask

C:\MMPodcasts\<Album>\<Artist> - <Title>

Some of the podcast titles are the same. This causes weird names.

Could I put the podcast date in there somehow to act as a more unique identifier? That would also help me sort them in my player.

For instance:

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C:\MMPodcasts\<Album>\<Date> - <Artist> - <Title>

But that doesn't work

sugardaddy · Post by **sugardaddy** » Thu Jan 10, 2008 4:27 pm

Or would this work?

What if there was a script that went through the entire library, and prepended the podcast date to the front of the file name?

For example....

Alton Brown - Cookies.mp3

would become

20080109 - Alton Brown - Cookies.mp3

Of course it would also have to rename the file as well as make the database change.

I've never written a MM script. But I am a ColdFusion and PHP programmer. Would this be simple?

sugardaddy · Post by **sugardaddy** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 12:33 pm

*** bump ***

Post by **Peke** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 5:30 pm

Have you tried using:
C:\MMPodcasts\<Album>\<Date:4> - <Artist> - <Title>

sugardaddy · Post by **sugardaddy** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 9:43 am

Good Idea. But That doesn't seem to work.

<date> doesn't seem to be a valid tag, because it just returns a "4-". I applied that mask to re-download several podcasts, and they were all the same for that field.

Post by **Peke** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 2:13 pm

Interesting
Will Check That.

sugardaddy · Post by **sugardaddy** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 10:11 pm

Peke wrote:Interesting
Will Check That.

Is that tag case sensitive? I used all lowercase.

Post by **Peke** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 4:25 am

You are right.
I have Confirmed Behavior

Ludek · Post by **Ludek** » Sat Mar 08, 2008 10:55 am

Yes, <date> needs to be added to masks
Added to our to-do list.

spacefish · Post by **spacefish** » Sat Mar 08, 2008 10:59 am

Can we also have Original Date added? I'd particularly like to use it skinning.