Importing CDG to Hoster from Microstudio

[bryant]

I have yet to find a file renamer that does this. If you know of one, please let me know:

1234 - ABCD to ABCD - 1234

Exactly as seen above; simple invert before and after one hyphen. Nothing else???

[mindonstrike]

Originally Posted by bryant

I have yet to find a file renamer that does this. If you know of one, please let me know:

1234 - ABCD to ABCD - 1234

Exactly as seen above; simple invert before and after one hyphen. Nothing else???

I downloaded a couple from download.com last night. I haven't had a chance to check them out yet but they claim to add prefixes (which is what I think cccolvin will need to do), add suffixes, remove or replace portions of the file name, and add numbers that increase sequentialy (which I'm thinking will come in handy for beta testing importing SCDG's files from the hard drive-when the time comes).

If you do a search for file rename at download.com you'll come up with a bazillion of them that range from free to about $30. Although they claim all their programs are spyware and adware free, I would still avoid opening them on your show computers until you check them out.

Sam

[bryant]

There is one called commander that is excellent that I have been using. But am still looking for the above? Thanx.

[gd123]

KJ File Manager

Latshaw Systems will do this with ease.

http://www.latshawsystems.com/

Once Open, you will set the "FILE TITLE FORMAT" to "A-T Format (Artist - Title)"

Click "IMPORT"
When the Files are imported, Highlight ALL files, to be changed, by Left Clicking the Mouse and DRAGGING down to Highlight Multiple Files, which turns all selected files to an Orange color. Then, Right Click anywhere on the ORANGE (Selected Files) and Choose "SWAP FIELDS" "ARTIST< > TITLE"

You have:
1234spacedashspaceABDC

You Get:
ABCDspacedashspace1234

[bryant]

Originally Posted by gd123

KJ File Manager

Latshaw Systems will do this with ease.

http://www.latshawsystems.com/

Once Open, you will set the "FILE TITLE FORMAT" to "A-T Format (Artist - Title)"

Click "IMPORT"
When the Files are imported, Highlight ALL files, to be changed, by Left Clicking the Mouse and DRAGGING down to Highlight Multiple Files, which turns all selected files to an Orange color. Then, Right Click anywhere on the ORANGE (Selected Files) and Choose "SWAP FIELDS" "ARTIST< > TITLE"

You have:
1234spacedashspaceABDC

You Get:
ABCDspacedashspace1234

Thanks a lot, GD. Can I get rid of the disc ID field altogether, though?
for ex. I want just ABCD - 1234 with nothing else in the file name. Just title - author ? I couldn't find a way to trim the whole thing out?

[gd123]

Can I get rid of the disc ID field altogether, though?

There is one called commander that is excellent that I have been using

You say you use Commander. I assume Total Commander.


If so, then select all the files needing changed, which should highlight them RED.

Then, click FILES/MULTI-RENAME TOOL.

In the upper left-hand corner, you will see "Rename Mask: File name" and [N] in the Box.

Let's say you have a file named like this:

Custom1-01 - Artist - Title

Then, place 14- to the right of the "N" inside the bracket to get this:

[N14-]

If you look at the NEW NAME column, you will see the result, which is:

Artist - Title

Click START to complete the operation/change.

So, the number, with a DASH, will be what the Total COUNT of Characters located to the LEFT of the FIRST Character in the ARTIST, assuming ARTIST is the NEXT FIELD, as per the example above, and Add ONE (+1) to actual count of characters to be removed

If you had:

Ah8008-14 - Mardones, Benny - Into The Night.zip

then, counting all the Characters, including spaces, from the Starting Character in ARTIST, which is the letter "M," you will get the number 12.

Add 1 to the actual count: 12 + 1 = 13.

So, to remove Ah8008dash14spacedashspace from the beginning, use [N13-], etc.

[horseshoe]

That is entirely too complicated. I use "bulk rename utility". I highlight the complete list and type in the things I want to replace, such as SC9104. I then tell it to replace it with nothing, and zoom, it's all gone. It's a free program and can do this in about 2 seconds.

[cccolvin]

I imported from CD to Microstudio and used only the disk "number", and did not use a brand prefix for each individual file name. If I rename all of my files, it is no problem. Hoster 3.314 will recognize my data and it will access the database, and will enter the artist and song for every file I am importing to Hoster. So, I guess I have to rename my files. I have not heard any recent postings from MTU. These other ideas have made me realize my actual problem, but I hope there is something better in V4.0.

[mindonstrike]

One of the programs I downloaded called file_renamer seemed to work quite well.
#1 it was FREE, no limitations, just a nag screen at the beginning asking for a couple dollars donation, and even that can be turned off, (but I'll probably send 'em a couple bucks if it keeps working as well as my initial check out did).

It doesn't install anything so to uninstall you just delete the folder it resides in.
I took a folder full of old txt files, selected all the files and told the program to add a DPT to the file starting at character 0 (zero) and immediately there it was. Just for fun I told it to capitalize the first letter of every word just by clicking a radio button which it did quite well.

If I were using this for real I'd have done the capitalization thing before adding the DPT prefix because it also changed that to "Dpt".

The "documentation" (if you can call it that) claims that it can undo any changes but I havn't figured out how yet.

This was checked out on an old computer with Windows ME. I haven't tried XP yet.

Sam

[horseshoe]

Search for "bulk rename utility" and download it. It can do anything you want to do with renaming. It is freeware with a donation if you wish, too. I love it and do all my renaming that way. You can also add, remove, or change extensions too. I love the batch mode. If I have a whole disc to rename, I simply highlight all of the files and do it instantly. It too allows you to go back if you make a mistake.

[admin]

Originally Posted by cccolvin

I have not heard any recent postings from MTU. These other ideas have made me realize my actual problem, but I hope there is something better in V4.0.

From what you posted earlier, it appears our "DiscID" field must have a parameter setting requiring "AlphaNumeric, Alpha First". If it is simply a field change, we should be able to do that without too much problems. We just sent out Hoster 3.315 for Beta testing that works with VISTA Home Basic. We should be able to modify that before we release... if it is just a field definition change.

At the earliest, 3.315 will release on Monday.