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Diskwriter strings and %_path%

I just spent 45 minutes searching for the answer to this.. Sorry if this is a repeat.

I have a structure that contains entries like this:

L:\Audio\Genre\VA - Albumtitle\Disc 1\filename.flac
..and
L:\Audio\Genre\Artist\Album\Disc 1\filename.flac
..and
L:\Audio\Genre\artist\Album\filename.flac

I'm trying to come up with a diskwriter string that will preserve that path, except that I would like to replace \Audio\ with, say, \Ogg\

So, to take a real example:
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L:\Audio\Chill\VA - Global Psychedelic Chill Out Vol 4\Disc 2\10 - Safran - Sol e Praia.flac

..should end up as:
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L:\Ogg\Chill\VA - Global Psychedelic Chill Out Vol 4\Disc 2\10 - Safran - Sol e Praia.ogg


Is this possible?  When I use the %_path% variable, it replaces all backslashes with underscores.  Additionally, the fact that not every path is the same depth is giving me trouble.

Thanks for any assistance/guidance you can provide.

Diskwriter strings and %_path%

Reply #1 –
Does L:\ogg\%genre%\%artist%\%album%\%title% work ok for albums without VA or multiple disks?  I don't have foobar handy, but it should.

If so, then go from there using $if(a,b,c) to check for 2 disk or VA albums and treat them as you need.
 

Diskwriter strings and %_path%

Reply #2 –
Yeah, that's what I'll do. Thanks.
I'm used to this feature from dbPowerAmp, which lets you 'bring' the whole folder structure of the source to the destination folder. Quite handy.  Given that I only have three possible states, though, your idea will work.