Below is a sample track title I’d like to rename in bulk. It’s more important for me to see “(Clean)” than it is to see “(LNRP Mixshow Edit).”
Outstanding (12 Inch Version) (LNRP Mixshow Edit) (Clean)
I want to batch rename such files as:
Outstanding (Clean) (12 Inch Version) (LNRP Mixshow Edit)
or
Outstanding (12 Inch Version) (Clean) (LNRP Mixshow Edit)
Basically, I want to shift the (Clean) or (Dirty) designation to the left so that it’s viewable in the limited title window. Can LexiconDJ do this?
That’s not very easy since Lexicon works with track fields (like title, artist, comment, etc) so while it is possible it’s quite a hassle. Maybe better to use mp3tag or something? Not sure it can rename but it’s powerful, though definitely a bit advanced.
The way you’d properly do it in Lexicon is by turning all that extra info into Custom Tags or into fields like Comment first, then you can use it to rename files. But obviously that is quite a lot of work depending on how many tracks you have…
See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ti2P5JPLzSw
Hi Christiaan, I was hoping this might be a smart fix, something like “find and replace” within the %title% tag.
I’ve seen the YT video. It was linked in previous posts. While I see how the entire %title% can be leveraged, I want to parse that tag.
Lexicon has Replace with space, Extract artist from title, and Extract remixer which all parse the %title%. I think what I’m looking to do is along those lines, but I want to manually enter the string to find and what to replace it with.
Those are the smartfixes, they are one click solutions to clean things up. You might be looking for Recipes (right click tracks → Edit → Recipes). There you can do more advanced stuff like replace text. The Split Field recipe might be of help to you, you can use it to move parts of your title to other fields. Then later you can use that to rename your files with patterns like %comment% etc