Help with refining picard script as well as how to sort radio and dj sets

[outsidecontext]

@Goldmaster

Any lossy files such as mp3, Ogg, m4a etc instead of having [bit-44khz] due to the script, just instead have [320kbps mp3] for mp3 tracks that are 320kbps for example and for tracks that are 128kbps m4a files. the folder name would have [128kbps m4a] in the folder name.

Maybe use something like:

[$if(%_bits_per_sample%,%_bits_per_sample%-bit $div(%_sample_rate%,1000) kHz$if(%_source%, %_source%),%_bitrate%kbps %_extension%)]

That will use %_bitrate%kbps %_extension% if there is not %_bits_per_sample%.

I personally use a small plugin that gives me a $is_lossy() and $is_lossless() function, see Categorizing lossless music - #2 by outsidecontext . I never submitted this to the plugins list as it is kind of a hack and not 100% reliable, but it totally works for my use cases.

@Goldmaster

Some tracks would have _ due to a character that is not compatible with windows. any way to replace whatever_ whatever with whatever, whatever with the exception being if its in the MusicBrainz database. so replace _ with, with space afterwards.

The characters not being allowed in Windows file names and hence getting replaced are ["*:<>?|]. Not sure which of those you want to replace with a comma, but you could wrap your entire naming script with a replacement, such as:

$replace(your naming script here,:,\,)

That would replace colons with a comma.

Two special cases are slash / and backslash \. As those are used as directory separators they get replaced with underscores before they reach the naming script. If you want to deal with those you need to handle this before, e.g. with a script modifying the tags or variables. E.g. if you want to replace a / in the artists add a script like this:

$set(_artist_for_filenaming,$replace(%artist%, /,\,))

This will add a variable %_artist_for_filenaming% which has the / replaced with a comma. Then in your file naming script you replace you use of `%artist% with

$if2(%_artist_for_filenaming%,%artist%)

The if2 is used to get a fallback in case %_artist_for_filenaming% is not set in situations where your other script has not run (e.g. if you save untagged files).

@Goldmaster

So I guess in picards settings I would have to change the folder structure from music to 1 directory up so that picard can move music into the music folder. dj mixes into dj mixes and radio shows into radio shows folder

Yes. You’ll need to find out how to distingiush those cases then, I think you can use releasetype for your cases. Something like

$if($in(%releasetype%,audiobook),audiobooks,$if($in(%releasetype%,dj-mix),dj-mixes,music))

Not sure how radio shows are handled.