elmertime
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wrote on 17.05.13 at 08:04
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Currently, I save individual songs using this filename pattern:

\tunes\%s\%a\%a_%t

This worked well until I began to have a LARGE number of different artists… when the directories/files are copied to a smartphone, it takes a long time to scroll down to the directory for artists that are near the end of the alphabet - the top level directory under %s (streamname) is far too flat and large.

I'm not sure how you would implement this, but it would be nice to have a macro that would deliver only the first <n> characters of the artist, title or album. If I had that, I could have something like this:

\tunes\$s\%2a\%a_%t

Would result in a file path & name of

\tunes\stream_name\Be\Beatles_Sie Liebt Dich(She Loves You).mp3

The format of %<number>a instead of %a is just an example… I'm sure you could think of a best way to do this.

Thank you for a wonderful bit of software!

ElmerTime
 
alex
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wrote on 21.05.13 at 01:31
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It's on my TODO list. But don't wait for it to happen, there's much other stuff left…:-(
The idea with the number in front of the character is not bad, when I implement it I think it will work this way.
LG/Best regards, Alex

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