Or Advanced Rename as GUI method to what SetAttr META "field:value" can do programmatically.
For example I want to change Title field in selected MP3 files to values "Chapter 001", "Chapter 002" and so on.
If there would the option like "Apply changes to chosen metadata field (instead to filename)" and button that would allow to choose target metadata field, I could to do it.
I can do an auto numbering of values of some metadata field with use of variables in some tag editors but currently not in DOpus.
In the meantime, you can actually do it with a script command.
The one I just sent you should do the job. Feel free to give it a try.
Then, you can use something like this: MetaWizard FIND=.* REPLACE="Chapter [#]" AUTONUMBER=001,1 PROPERTIES=title REGEX
So now I can do "an auto numbering of values of some metadata field with use of variables" without resorting to external programs.
Thanks, I will give it try.
There are reasons for which I would prefer GUI solution.
Sometimes I want titles like "Chapter 001", "Chapter 002" and so on, sometimes I want titles like "Chapter 01", "Chapter 02" and so on.
Or sometimes I want to add "001" to existing title, that may be obtained by using {mp3title} .
Modifying a button each time when some particular need arises is like modifying Rename button when some particular need arises.
Very inconvenient.
The reason for which Advanced Rename exists, I think.
And, by the way, inability to use a power of Advanced Rename with Copy AS makes the element of DOpus highly unutilised.
BTW, is there anyone else who wants to get involved in the development of the new version as well?
Feedback and testing are really needed and appreciated, as they help build a better command.
Requiring the same function and stumbled upon this topic. Is the AUTONUMBER argument deprecated? There doesn't seem to be anything like it, nor in the GUI itself.
In the Meta Wizard dialog? I can't seem to find it. If you mean the built-in advanced rename, I can't make the change to the meta tag (or rather, don't know how to).
The Rename dialog is part of Opus and deals with renaming file. It has not much to do with metadata management (at most, it offers some way to include metadata in the rename schemes).
That Rename dialog offers GUI for the AUTONUMBER parameter (that is described here : Rename [Directory Opus Manual]).
The Meta Wizard, AFAIK, is a script add-in that allows for some metadata management. I don't know the state it is in. If you have any question about it, best way is to find the thread about it and ask questions directly inside that thread.
To make it short, there's no built-in UI to process metadata (e.g. change it) for batches of files.
There's a built-in UI for renaming files, that can use metadata (that are already there) inside the rename scheme.
I was just referring to @errante's command and wondered if that is still a thing, since it doesn't work for me and I can't find it in the script's documentation.
I think that version was never actually published, just shared privately with some folks.
I might publish it later. FWIW, eventually I replaced it with a brand new 2.0 version that I never actually finished due to lack of interest. It does work, but it needs some work (it has some hardcoded things) and testing that I didn't have the time|motivation to do.
