Likely a simple syntax I’m not aware of, but I wish to add a space at end of file name, before the extension. What I desire is: Artist - Title - Album - .ext
What I have for File Naming script is very basic (and works just fine) is:
$if(%artist%,%artist% - %title% - %album% -_)
How do I alter the script to replace the ‘_’ with an empty space? Merely putting a space after the last ‘-’ results in nothing after the last ‘-’ and the extension. i.e. - Artist - Title - Album -.ext
For now, I have a Quick Action in mp3tag that takes care of it, but would appreciate being able to do away with having to take another step.
This actually could be something that’s currently not possible. I can definitely reproduce this. I haven’t looked into the details yet, but I wouldn’t be surprised if leading or trailing whitespace in file names gets intentionally cleared somewhere.
When I used a script that achieved something similar, trailing spaces were respected.
But when using the plugin, trailing spaces are removed.
The plugin creator ( @rdswift ) had a look at this, but confirmed it must be something that Picard is doing.
It’s not a biggie, and there might be valid reasons for this behaviour, but personally I would be in favor of removing that mechanism. (not the spaces)
Thanks for the replies. I agree it must be something in Picard, itself, as the only plugin I have in use is ‘Title Case’ and none of what I have in ‘My Scripts’ performs any trimming, other than for specific characters. My hope is that there is some way of forcing a filename trailing space.