If you want to create a new profile before you start the task you can just select Clone and that will create a new profile based on the existing one. So in the main window when you start a task it uses the options in the selected profile, and if yo modify the options they are saved to that selected profile. Why are profile choice and profile management in separate places? I guess that’s not really clear in the interface. are people using this functionality? Genuinely curious. I also hadn’t considered the need to name things accounting for if/then/or situations. It was frustrating because I couldn’t see any of the original mask syntax, so I was flying blind, having forgot all the JavaScript I learned so many years ago. If we need to do this I can help you further. One option you have if you cannot get Edit Mask to work is to manually edit the renamemask.properties file.
#SONGKONG RENAME MASK HOW TO#
The syntax used by SongKong is actually pretty simple and quite obvious when you look at an existing mask, its easy to amend a mask then use one from scratch - How to create Rename masks Using Javascript expressions give the customer the ability to do very complex masks if required, the alternative is to create a pseuso language as Picard and Foobar2000 do but this is very limiting because each function required by a customer has to be specially coded, so there are always limitations. Unfortunately the one you want are missing, I did notice this recently SongKong comes with a predefined set of mask that you can use, you only need to go into Preferences if you want to edit a mask or create a new one. Have you seen how, say, Adobe Lightroom lets you build complex rename masks by tokenizing the variables? Super easy, don’t have to learn JavaScript. Why is this complicated instead of simple? Undo – Will undo the last renaming process.I just want DD-TT-Album-Artist-Title as my filename.Īs it stands, I have to run everything through Yate to get my files named correctly. Rename – Will rename selected files according to the selected options. Test – Allows you to preview file name changes in a "before & after" split window before committing to the rename process. If you want to create a folder structure, you may use "\" in the rename mask as in the example below: Note: Keep in mind that you may substitute variables for any text you choose. Replace spaces by underscores – Check this box to generate file names like "Artist_-_Title.mp3".Ĭase – Checking this box enables the UPPERCASE, lowercase, Capitalize First Letter (of each word) or Capitalize first word functions. Result preview – Here you can see real time preview results of the rename mask you defined. With the Mask Editor you can easily create, preview and save your masks for future use. Click the button next to the file name mask list to open it. Note: For easy typing your rename mask (variables), you may use the Mask Editor. You will find the following Rename variables listed on the user interface for your convenience:
For example, if you key in the %1 - %3 - %2 variables (in that order) in the "File rename mask" box, it will produce filenames with "Artist - Album - Title.mp3".
#SONGKONG RENAME MASK MANUAL#
(See How to get tags from file name for more information.) Otherwise, you may manually enter the ID3 tag information using the multi-file or manual ID3 tag editor, using freedb, or Get album title from the Web, if you have the full album.įile name mask - This is the main rename option where you may fully configure filenames using variables and/or any text. Instead, you may use the Filename to tag option to generate tag data based on the file name. If files do not contain tag data, you cannot rename them with the Rename file option.
Note: The following functions are driven by pre-existing tag information. Now you are ready to begin renaming your favorite music files! To open a folder containing your music files, select it in the Tag&Rename folders tree. It’s as simple as 1-2-3! Just open the folder containing files to rename, configure the rename options and click the Rename button. With Tag&Rename you can quickly and easily rename your music files according to their tag information.