Useful foobar2000 formatting strings
Formatting for djing
TINT
$num(%barcode%,14)-$num($max(1.%disc%),2)-$num(%track%,2)
Date
To display dates from tango.info properly (only confirmed dates with correct formatting)
$if2($greater($strstr(%date%,'--'),0),$date($left(%date%,10)))
Album
To get album names including catalognumber and artist, e.g. ‘CTA261 Adolfo Carabelli Vol.1 (1931-1933)’ I use this formatting string with the %album_pubcode% and %album_name% and %artist% from tango.info:
$replace($replace(%catalognumber%,' ',),'-',) %artist% %album%
Use the above with the automatically fill values tool from the properties dialogue. Choose source ‘Other’ and set the above as source. Use it to fill the album tag. (Assumes you have tagged your files with catalognumber, of course.)
File structure
$if($strstr(%album artist%,','),Varios,%album artist%)
Use Varios for Various Artists albums, %artistsort% for the rest (included in the following formatting string):
$if($strstr(%album artist%,Varios),Varios,%artistsort%)
Use for file structure (copy/move, assumes Various Artists albums are tagged with %album artist% Varios and others have %artistsort% defined) :
$lower(%codec%)\$ascii($if($strstr(%album artist%,Varios),Varios,%artistsort%))\$ascii(%album%)[ if2(%catalognumber%,%barcode%)]\$ifgreater(%totaldiscs%,1,[$num(%disc%,2).],%track%) $ascii(%title%)
Tagging from tango.info
query string to use with http://tools.tango.info/tagger1.3.2.php
%tin%;%album_name%;%album_artist%;%track_orch%;%discnumber%;%track%;%title%;%genre%;%date%;%album_pubcode%;%track_voca%;%album_dqty%
Corresponding string to use in fb2k (fill from values):
%tin%;%album%;%album artist%;%artist%;%disc number%;%track number%;%title%;%genre%;%date%;%catalognumber%;%performer%;%totaldiscs%
For submission to tango.info
Following the metadata submission guidelines at tango.info. Useful in combination with text tools module.
[$num(%barcode%,14)];%album%;$if2(%ALBUMARTIST%,%artist%);cd;%discnumber%;%track%;%title%;[%genre%];%artist%;[%performer%];[%date%];%_length%
Misc
To put the singer in parenthesis after track title (saving screen real estate):
%title%[ '('$ifgreater($len(%performer%),1,%performer%,)')']
Facebook
> TINT
> $num(%barcode%,14)-$num($max(1.%disc%),2)-$num(%track%,2)
Correction:
$num(%barcode%,14)-$max(1,%disc%)-%track%
Yes, that works too. The last $num in my string is probably unnecessary, but I prefer it for the disc number for aesthethic reasons
Both work with the tango.info tagger.
> The last $num in my string is probably unnecessary
It causes the result not to be a TINT, since TINT is defined to have no leading zeros. See http://wiki.tango.info/mul/TINT .
> but I prefer it for the disc number for aesthethic reasons
Fair enough. One may use any format one likes if interoperability is not required. Having said which, where some discs have more than 99 tracks, you’d need $num(%track%,3).