hi,

I have a %added% custom tag that I used to manually enter when I import an album to my library.
Now I'm using foo_dar for rating, combined with foo_custom_info and it gets done automatically from now on.
but the time stamp format is different. foo_dar uses the default one:

"yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss"

and I used somethin like this for my custom tag:

"yy · mm · dd"

and foo_dar doesn't properly rate the files that already have the %added% field
So my question is: is there a way to automatically edit my old %added% tag to the default format? Doing it manually is going to be a real pain...

I'm not used to using masstagger (tag&rename seems more intuitive)

thanks for any help

Use the Automatically Fill Values feature of the Properties dialog box. The goal is to manipulate your original data using titleformatting and send it to the %added% field. Since you have a fixed pattern, you would use $substr to pick out sections of the tag and "rearrange" them. (Note: You can also use $left and $right, among other functions to get similar results)

For your custom tag example, I used:

and I get the following:



You'll probably have to fiddle around with the pattern to get the desired result, but I hope you understand how it works.

I understood

unfortunately I'm using foobar 0.9.4, which doesn't have that feature.
however, I installed a new instance of version 0.9.5.3 and tried what you described... but when I changed them over there, they don't get updated in my older foobar version. which I'm guessing means that custom tags don't get stored in the file itself, but in an external file...I didn't know that

thanks a lot for your reply though. and if you can think of anything else to achieve that, please tell me

sune

If the tags aren't being updated, you're doing something wrong. They should be getting updated. Did you reload the information from the files in the old version after you changed them in the new version?

That's one of the problems with sticking to the old versions: new versions offer different and better ways to solve the same problems than the old versions.