foobar2000 Masstager File Renaming Schemes

New albums

Albums I've added recently — I put them in one directory for each month to better keep track of new music I need to listen to more.

%artist% - %date% - %album%[ '('%release type%')']
\
[%disc%-]$num(%tracknumber%,2)-%title%[ '('%track type%')']

Archive for "normal" albums

This is my archive formatting — first character (might be a number or something else, though, in that case I just move it manually afterwards since it doesn't happen very often), then one directory for each artist (The Artist is filed as Artist, The), followed by one directory per album, as Year - Album Name.

$if($strcmp($left(%artist%,4),'The ')
  ,$substr(%artist%,5,5)
  ,$left(%artist%,1))
\
$if($strcmp($left(%artist%,4),'The ')
  ,$substr(%artist%,5,$len(%artist%))', The'
  ,%artist%)
\[%date% - ]%album%[' ('%release type%')']
\[%disc%-]$num(%tracknumber%,2)-%title%[' ('%track type%')']

Note that some of the text fields in foobar2000 require all code to be on the same line, so if you can't get my code to work, make sure you get rid of all line breaks (and perhaps some spaces as well).

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