Renaming filename and tag / (sorting highlighted files)

hi
I've been using AR for a very long time and it always did the trick.
Thank you for this wonderful freeware that litteraly helped me spare hours of renaming.

I would like to use the "Replace method" to fix some charatcers in both the filename and a TAG
(Audio Title).
I's ok for the filename.
Problem is, I don't know how to apply the replacement in the TAG in the same time.

https://i.imgur.com/xnnxzn3.jpeg

If this is not possible considering AR is not a TAG manager, here is my problem :
I need fix some errors in my music files collection (over 230.000 files) such as "double space" to "one space".
Problem is that I did not find a way to sort the highlighted files (the ones matching my criteria) so that these files are all sorted on top of the list.
This will be very helpful considering the renamed files need to be tagged again in a second phase and I must be able to identify them in a list of over 200 000 files, it's very hard to scroll down and identify the highlighted files.
Any suggestion (workaround) is welcome !
Thank you

PS. an option would be to auto select the highlighted files so that the other files can be manually removed from the process.
I did not find any auto-select option.

Reply to #1:

EDIT: Oops, you edited in more detail... I'm going to read it now and get back in a minute. :)

Hi, KK, welcome,

Reply to #1:

Okay, let's try this again. I still can't see your imgur file (they say there are errors and I can't display it), so I'm kinda flying blind here. But I can answer your specific questions.

If you load a batch of files and your method list you want to use, you can right-click on the files list and select "Remove special / remove unchanged items" to only show files that will be acted on by your method list. That's the only thing I know of currently to do what you need.

Do you have experience using regular expressions? It's a lot easier to do some things involving pattern matching and replacing with regex. For instance, (sorry if this is below your skill level) to replace multiple spaces with one, especially if there are varying numbers, you can use a replace method to just say Replace: [ ]+ Replace with: " " (one space, without the quotes). That will remove any number of spaces together and replace with just one.

You can use tags anywhere in replacement strings and many other methods to change your filenames, and some in the field for the text to be replaced. For instance, my audio files don't have anything in the <Title> tag but they do in the <Exiftool: Title> tag, so that's what I would use if they weren't already named well.

Hit us back with examples, specifics, etc. If you need more info or if this doesn't cover what you want.

Best regards,
DF

Reply to #1:
Hi King.

You are right. AR is an amazing program but it is not a Tag Editor. I don't think there is a way to change tags from AR.
As for the double spaces problem you can use wildcard when you drag your files into AR.
Wildcard: * *
This will load only the files with double spaces.

Then you can use the REPLACE method
REPLACE: (add double space)
REPLACE WITH: (add one space)

Miguel

Reply to #4:
hi Miguel

"use wildcard when you drag your files into AR.
Wildcard: * *" This will load only the files with double spaces.

thank you
it worked like a charm

Reply to #4:

Ah, thanks Miguel, I guess I didn't understand... I've never used a tag editor, wasn't aware there was such a thing. :)

Way to be my brother!

:) DF

Reply to #3:

Hi DF
"Right click and
Remove special / remove unchanged items"

I had absolutely no clue of this option !
Thank you, this will solve my problem !
And for (potential) future changes too, no just the double space.

Never mind the image, it was just an example of
Madonna - 01 Holiday (01 Holiday in tag)
to be renamed
Madonna - 01 Holiday (01 Holiday in tag) <- double space remaining in Tag

maybe you can see it now :
https://i.imgur.com/xnnxzn3.jpg

I'm going to try the exclusion right now !