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Title: Automatic tagging in foobar
Post by: alexberka on 2012-09-23 13:54:02

Hello. I have a large amount of vinyl captured files which have no artist/album tagging, but are arranged in a folder structure e.g. /artist/album/track_name. Is there any easy way to map directory structure onto artist and album tagging in foobar without me laboriously having to enter all the text fields?

Cheers

Title: Automatic tagging in foobar
Post by: Frank Bicking on 2012-09-23 14:29:34

Properties/Automatically Fill Values (http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=Foobar2000%3a%50roperties/Automatically_Fill_Values)

Title: Automatic tagging in foobar
Post by: Emerelle on 2012-09-23 14:55:39

If you pick that option (automatically fill values...) in the next dialog you choose from: Other and insert the path this way $directory_path(%path%)
Then you can write a pattern depending on your folder structure. Keep in mind, unwanted characters can be masked with an empty tag like %%
Hth

Title: Automatic tagging in foobar
Post by: Frank Bicking on 2012-09-23 15:03:56

Quote from: Emerelle on 2012-09-23 14:55:39

choose from: Other and insert the path this way $directory_path(%path%)

That is not necessary, "file names" includes parent folders (see the documentation above).

Title: Automatic tagging in foobar
Post by: alexberka on 2012-09-23 15:45:40

Thanks very much, saved me lot of hassle.

Title: Automatic tagging in foobar
Post by: Emerelle on 2012-09-23 16:47:33

Geez Frank, I did not pay attention to that.The preview shows the path as soon as a backslash is entered. Good to know.

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