Hi, I've been using this function for a long time now, and it has always worked great. Today however, I ran into a problem. I just got the entire discography of a compilation series (+1000 tracks) but all tags are missing. No problem i tought, I'll just use the "Fill values from filename" option, and I'm done.

Well my problem is this: All the filenames are formatted in this way:


Because there is no space between the track number and the artist I'm not able to get those two things in a separate Tag. Is there a way to separate them, so that the track number just checks the first two characters, and then continues with artist?

And then another question: Is it possible to use the name of the folder where the files are located as a value (in this case for the Album tag.

Thanks in advance, and sorry for my crappy English,

FORZA

The "Fill Values from File Names" tool supports only very simple patterns, so you cannot do this using only this tool. If you use the pattern %temp% - %title% the first part is extracted into the TEMP field. You can then use the masstagger to extract the track number and the artist into the respective fields and remove the TEMP field. You can also do the first step in masstagger; the action is called "Guess values from filename" and there is no preview.


Just use a forward or backward slash in the pattern, for example it could be used like this:
You can also use multiple levels of directories if you need.

Thanks man, your answer was just what I needed.