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This was posted by elbuzzard in the News and Other Stuff Forum. I am looking for a solution as well.

Is there a way to limit the maximum number of characters in a title?

Say I organize my files to include the track title, I have a track title that is 1000 characters long. I don't want all of that in the filename, I'd like to trim it to around 150 characters.

I could use <Title:150> or <Title:-150>, but that will add a string of spaces to filenames where the title is shorter than 150 characters.

Is there a way to set the format to something like "If the title is longer than 150 characters, cut off everything after the 150th character, but otherwise, don't change it?"

I tried <artist> - left(<track#>, 50) but it doesn't work. Any suggestions?

TIA,
MPG

MPG wrote:
I tried <artist> - left(<track#>, 50) but it doesn't work. Any suggestions?

TIA,
MPG

Er, that will limit the track# field, not the title...

<artist> - $left(<title>,50)

you need the $ on the command

you might be better off with putting left around your whole mask:

$left(<artist> - <title>,240)

this will keep the entire path under the limit for path/filename length without having to worry about any particular field.

Thanks Teknojnky,

I knew that the left function on the title would only affect the title, not the entire filename. I was just trying to figure out how to use the function.

$Left works.

Is there a listing somewhere of what functions can be used in Nodes or Organize files. I have read the Magic Nodes pdf, but even it is pretty sketchy at best.

Or are the vbscript functions availabe with the $sign in front of them?

eg: $UCase, $Mid, $Len, $InStr, etc...

TIA,
MPG

I'd also like to know if there's some help file with all these functions documented. When I went into the Auto-Organize Files dialog and clicked on the ">>" button and looked at the help there $left wasn't listed.

For me the <filename:x> mask got changed from MediaMonkey 2 because in that version it wouldn't pad the filename if it were less than the limit you specified. Good thing I came here and stumbled upon the $left() function.

Teknojnky wrote: <artist> - $left(<title>,50)

Thank you very much.

I was using <Album:-10> in the file-name.

That way I can include in the file-name the first 10 characters of all albums (in case I lose the tags and the files get separated from their folders!] and, conveniently, the date of live concerts which have album names like "2008-12-20 - Whatever Place, Some City".

10 characters takes care of the date nicely but unfortunately albums that have less than 10 characters get padded with spaces. I was never sure if that might cause problems, but now it doesn't matter:

$left(<Album>,10)

is classy.

Is there anywhere where all this sort of thing is documented? Like which fields can have multi-entries for example too?

Teknojnky wrote: ↑Tue Jun 10, 2008 12:18 pm
you might be better off with putting left around your whole mask:

$left(<artist> - <title>,240)

this will keep the entire path under the limit for path/filename length without having to worry about any particular field.

13 years later, MM5 is out, and this is still the right answer. Thank you!!

Looks useful, but shouldn't the title for this be:

Maximum number of characters in a filename?
(one is using this to trim down or set a maximum limit, right?)

Thanks for contributing, maybe I'll get around to trying it sometime