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      • pae
        and I have audio files in it
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      • pae
        I would like picard to move the tagged files to a new folder on the same level as "music", but named "artist - year - album"
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      • nikki
        then you need something like /home/you/music/%artist%... or C:\your\music\%artist%... or something appropriate for whatever OS you use
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      • Shepard has quit
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      • Shepard`
        Shepard` is now known as Shepard
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      • pae
        nikki: but can't picard move the files in relation to their original place?
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      • pae
        I would like to have something like this
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      • pae
        (4 line paste, is it ok?)
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      • nikki
        sure
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      • pae
        `-- music
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      • pae
        `-- file.mp3
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      • pae
        so I open file.mp3 with picard
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      • pae
        it identifies it
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      • nikki
        hmm... try "../%artist% - %year% - %album%" then
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      • pae
        ok, just a sec...
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      • pae
        hmmm, it still gives me just what I entered
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      • nikki
        hmm
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      • pae
        does picard even support %tags% when creating directories?
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      • nikki
        yes
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      • nikki isn't very sure about how relative paths work, she's only ever used absolute ones
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      • MClemo
        pae: you use picard or picardqt?
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      • pae
        MClemo: picardqt
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      • pae
        0.9.0 beta1
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      • pae
        on linux
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      • Shepard prods muzz
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      • MClemo
        %artist% - %year% - %album%"
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      • MClemo
        errm
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      • Shepard
        Muzzz even
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      • MClemo
        pae: "%artist% - %year% - %album%" in the upper part of the window
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      • pae
        MClemo: yes, I know
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      • MClemo
        pae: then check "move files"
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      • MClemo
        and give ".." as the directory
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      • MClemo
        works for me on one box
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      • pae
        but that will just move the tagged files one level up
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      • pae
        I wnat a new directory to be created
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      • xlotlu
        now how do i add this guy as artist... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice,_Landgrave_o…
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      • pae
        *want
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      • MClemo
        pae: then use "../.." in "move files"
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      • MClemo
        if I got this right
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      • pae
        that would just put the files two levels up...
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      • MClemo
        get the directories created in that "music" directory?
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      • pae
        or above it
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      • pae
        but the problem is that when i click on "Preview", I just get %artist%... in the preview
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      • xlotlu
        i think i'll call him Mauritius
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      • MClemo
        I thought this is what you wanted. One or two levels up the "music" directory (relatively)
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      • nikki tests...
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      • nikki
        ahh, you need ../ in the "move files to this directory" bit then the %artist% etc stuff in the "rename files" bit
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      • MClemo
        I got .. and it works :P
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      • pae
        ok, it looks promising...
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      • nikki
        .., ../ they're the same thing :P
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      • pae
        yes :)
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      • nikki wonders where the list of %thingy% things went
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      • pae
        ah, it works...
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      • MClemo
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      • nikki
        now how was I supposed to know that?
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      • MClemo
        I got that url memorized of course ;)
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      • nikki
        it doesn't support not renaming the files but still moving them to folders?
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      • MClemo
        if you uncheck "rename files" and check "move files" that should work
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      • nikki
        no, because %artist% etc aren't supported by the move files bit
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      • nikki
        only rename files bit
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      • pae
        ok, it works...
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      • pae
        thanks a lit guys/gals :)
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      • nikki
        you're welcome
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      • pae
        *lot
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      • MClemo
        nikki: I think they'd have the same file name and would just get moved to that directory. But who would want that anyway
      • 2007-12-01 33513, 2007

      • pae
        now I can spend the rest of my weekend organising my *cough*legal*cough* music collection :)
      • 2007-12-01 33521, 2007

      • nikki
        so it doesn't seem to let me do, for example, "../%artist/%originalfilename%"
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      • MClemo
        yeah, for that you have to use a combination of rename and move
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      • MClemo
        .. to move and %artist/%originalfilename% in rename
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      • nikki
        but there doesn't seem to be an %originalfilename% thingy
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      • MClemo
        oh
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      • pae
        why would you want to use the original filename?
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      • nikki
        because some of my filenames are beautifully transliterated and I don't want things messing them up :P
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      • pae
        aww :)
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      • nikki
        yeah! I put loooove into them ;)
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      • nikki giggles to herself
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      • pae
        maybe you could use
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      • pae
        Does nothing (useful for comments or disabling a block of code).
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      • MClemo
        nikki: I have ________ _____-__________!/01 - _________ - ____ ______.mp3 (a pretty example) for those ;)
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      • nikki
        that would be helpful for chinese... they seem to be awfully fond of two character titles
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      • nikki
        so you'd get 01 - __.mp3, 02 - __.mp3, 03 - __.mp3, etc
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      • MClemo
        I can see %originalfilename% being useful
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      • xlotlu
        given an artist that has more variants of "spelling" both his first and second name, should i add 3 aliases with the combination of all of them?
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      • nikki
        I don't think it matters which alias the name is in when the search is looking for it
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      • nikki
        i.e. as far as I know, the forename from one alias and the surname from another alias would still work
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      • CatCat
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      • CatCat
        this just feels like the *opposite* of the truth for me.. really makes me see what the atheists are about :)
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      • xlotlu
        weee, 2nd release down, only 26 more to go.
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      • xlotlu
        i think i'll take a long break :)
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      • Aankhen``
        Yeah, definitely. After all, if the choice is between Christianity and atheism, I'd— wait, it isn't, is it?
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      • Aankhen``
        (To clarify: I have nothing against atheists, I just find it silly to decide to be an atheist because you don't like Christianity.)
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      • CatCat
        Aankhen: i kind of agree with that. choosign *not* to belive in anythign becasue you disliek *one* religion is a bit.. well i think that person must have been overly exposed to that religion :)
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      • Knio has quit
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      • Knio1
        Knio1 is now known as Knio
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      • xlotlu
        indeed. hadn't i been baptised as christian, i'd be a scientologist
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      • CatCat
        i still dont really take scientologist serious for *real* to be honnest. sounds to much
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      • CatCat
        scientology*
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      • xlotlu
        (joke)
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      • CatCat
        still think its soem sort of in-jokish "giant spagetty and meatballs" attempt :)
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      • CatCat
        lol
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      • CatCat
        i emant it,
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      • CatCat
        i think scientology must be a joke to see how exsited everyone not in on the joke gets tat peopel would actually belive such nonsence
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      • CatCat
        and its not liek they talk abotu "lol we are fooling them lol" in theri meetigns.. its liek more everybody whos in on the joke is in on the joke and pretends to take it seriosuly even to eachother becasue thats *part* of the joke
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      • MrQwerty` has quit
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      • CatCat
        and maybe some real big idiots think maybe its real, but they are not reall y *in* on it
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      • CatCat
        ans its part o the thing that you gotta get real agitated if soemoen suggests this
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      • CatCat
        (that its a joke)
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      • nikki
        pastafarian :D
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      • CatCat
        yea :D
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      • nikki is always tempted to say she's a pastafarian
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      • CatCat
        i think maybe scientology is the "mensa club" of silly religions and as such they take themselves a bit to serious
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      • CatCat
        where pastafairains and the church of cod and the invisible pink unicorn anre more "o hai ,we know we is silly, lol"
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      • nikki totally agrees with the separation of science and religion though
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      • CatCat
        doesnt caturday and lolcats fit in there somehow.. lolbible
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      • CatCat
        yikes. im late
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      • CatCat
        rawr
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      • CatCat
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      • CatCat
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      • symphonick
        Grüsst euch! I can't find a "arranged vocal" or "arranged choir" AR?
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      • symphonick
        just "arrange instrument"?
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      • nikki wonders what the usual response to grüsst euch would be
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      • symphonick
        Grüss dich?
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      • nikki
        ah
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      • symphonick
        Don't blame me, our teacher had lived in... eh... the southern parts of Germany?
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      • symphonick
        Or maybe it was in Austria.
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      • nikki is inventing her own dialect of denglisch
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      • nikki
        eventually it'll be unique enough to have its own iso code, then I'll make some dodgy music with lots of recorders using my own language
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      • nikki nods wisely
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      • Shepard giggles
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      • symphonick
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      • MClemo
        Servus symphonick!
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      • Shepard
        Grüzi!
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      • nikki
        moin...
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      • Shepard
        hmm it's grüezi
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      • MClemo
        Salli zämme!
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      • nikki
        n'abend?
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      • MClemo
        nikki: that's for those up north ;)
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      • symphonick
        Tjaba.
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      • nikki
        how far north?
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      • MClemo
        not far
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      • MClemo
        wouldn't say it in bavaria