Tagging from path and file name with tag.exe Options

[phoenix_rising]

Hi Guys,

Newby here and apology's if this has been answered... It may be quite simply but im not finding tag.exe's documentation very easy to understand...

Im trying to batch encode all of my .ape files with id3v1 tags...
The filenames are as follows:

eg. c:\music\The Al Di Meola Project - Kiss My Axe [EAC APE]\The Al Di Meola Project - Kiss My Axe - Global Safari.ape

I want to populate the tags with the Artist - Album - Title information.

Evertime i refer to the A L T scheme i end up with the following information in the ARTIST field in the tag:

The Al Di Meola Project - Kiss My Axe [EAC APE]

when it should just be:

The Al Di Meola Project

I take it that TAG is pulling the Artist information (A - scheme) information from the foldername...

Is there anyway to tell it NOT to pull this information from the folders and filename and from the cuefile?

or

failing that, is there anyway of telling it not to look at any of the information BEFORE the "-" in the folder name?

ANY HELP WOULD BE LEGENDARY!!!

* Maybe theres another command line tagger i can use that will pull the fields from the .cue file as oposed to folder and filename???

This post has been edited by phoenix_rising: Apr 25 2012, 02:29

[phoenix_rising]

I'm decoding it fine, splitting it fine, re-encoding it fine... The problem simply is with adding an APEv2 tag to it.... TAG.exe CAN do it ... but the problem is for some reasen it keeps pulling the ALBUM information from the folder structure as oposed to the filename... but it populates the TITLE and ARTIST from the filename!

Basically, in a nut shell...

I have a lot of ape files in the following format: ARTIST - ALBUM - TITLE without any tag information at all

eg, John Smith - The Best of John Smith - Smithing around.ape

HOW in the HELL can i force tag.exe to add a APEv2 tag for the file using the filename for the information???????

I have the filename broken up with the - limiter so in theory it should be easy!

Alternatively, How can i force TAG.exe to look at the beginning of the filename for the ALBUM information... ? At the moment it pulls the info from the foldername as oposed to the filename

This has been kicking around for the last few days and i'm pretty sure someone knows!

This post has been edited by greynol: Apr 25 2012, 18:47

Reason for edit: Merged posts, removed unnecessary quotation of the previous post.