Hi Jim,
Is it possible to request an additional audio file tag for use with batch audio conversions?
I would like the Album tag to reflect the title of the text file I am converting. Currently, for a multi chapter story the %title% tag doesn't really work, as the album title would reflect each chapter as 'Storyname_001', 'Storyname_002' instead of 'Storyname' (or presumably '001_Storyname' if the file split numbering were set as the prefix - something I've never tried)
I guess what I'm looking for is a tag that replicates the 'base output name' from the file splitter dialog, though obviously the file splitter and batch converter tools are separate.
Is there a relatively easy way of converting the current %title% tag to peel off any number suffixes (or prefixes), or adding a new tag that does so?
Cheers,
Brian
Request for additional batch audio file tag
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Re: Request for additional batch audio file tag
I added a new tag to the latest version of TextAloud that may help with this. The new tag is called %BaseTitle%. So %BaseTitle% will act exactly like %Title%, except that %BaseTitle% will strip away any leading / trailing sequence numbers from the title.
You can download the update at http://www.nextup.com/files/ta3.exe.
Give it a try when you can and let me know if you run into any problems with it.
You can download the update at http://www.nextup.com/files/ta3.exe.
Give it a try when you can and let me know if you run into any problems with it.
Jim Bretti
NextUp.com
NextUp.com