I'm hoping someone here can help me. I have thousands of FLAC files which I ripped with dbPoweramp. However, when I ripped them, I had the setting in poweramp which made the track #s come in X/Y format where X is the track # and Y is the number of tracks on the CD. I want only the "X" part of the track # there. Is there a way that I can mass update all the tags to remove the part of the string from the slash onward? This sounds like an advanced scripting thing, but I am clueless on how to do that sort of thing.

Thanks!

Jeff

Select everything, Properties, Tools/Automatically Fill Values..., Source: Other... - "%tracknumber%", Pattern: "%tracknumber%/%totaltracks%".

Yirkha. What application do I do this in? in dbPoweramp I can't find that menu item.

Thanks,
Jeff

Ah, sorry, I'm living in the world of foobar2000.
If you don't find another way how to do this in the software you already have, you could give it a try as well, its tagging/renaming/managing capabilities are excellent.

I'd be clueless at this version. Used to that sort of stuff using Masstagger.

It takes a one or two line script which would be basically written for you in Foobar2000, but it means installing FB2k and probably the MassTagger component as well.

You might consider MP3Tag which is free (accepts donations)... it has a powerful 'auto-numbering' feature. It can auto-number every folder (assuming one album per folder) using 1, 2... 9, 10, 11, or 01, 02... 09, 10, etc. Very quickly and intuitive interface, as well as undo.

It is not difficult to strip out the disc numbers also, if you have those. However, you might want to keep them in multi-disc scenarios.

MP3Tag is getting more and more intuitive and does what people most often want. Tags all sorts of files.

good luck

Please, don't confuse the people.