filename problem

[jjones]

Hi,
I'm using {albumArtist}/{albumTitle}/{trackNumber} {trackTitle} in the prefrences whilst converting an .ape/.cue to mp3. But my resulting filenames are always {albumTitle}/{trackNumber}.mp3. What am i doing wrong?


Thanks!

[Mike1]

Hi,
I'm using {albumArtist}/{albumTitle}/{trackNumber} {trackTitle} in the prefrences

The default, IOW.

But my resulting filenames are always {albumTitle}/{trackNumber}.mp3.

While, like you, I don't change the default, I've found I have to check the "Use a custom format ..." box just above that. I don't know why, but it seems I need to. If I don't Max doesn't create an albumArtist directory but drops the albumTitle directory and contents in "Compilations".

Have you got that box checked?

[jjones]

Indeed I've checked the 'custom' box.

[Mike1]

Indeed I've checked the 'custom' box.

That was the only thought I had. I suppose it might be a problem specific to the formats then - or, alternatively, that the .cue file is not as it should be.

I know Monkey's Audio has its own tagging system. I don't know what the .cue file should look like. Maybe you could open it in a text editor and post it, or a sample of it, here. There may be someone reading here who could look at it.

[jjones]

cool. I'll take a look for the sake of the project. Certainly not any easier than renaming files.

[Paul Gotch]

You aren't doing anything wrong there is a long standing bug which means that Max ignores AlbumArtist tags for the purposes of output directories when converting see

http://trac.sbooth.org/Max/ticket/8

[sbooth]

Does this happen with Max-r1381?

[Paul Gotch]

It does happen with the 1381 build, the binary I have dates from the 11th October 2008.

There is actually a patch attached to the defect that that I linked to but I haven't looked at it to see if it's any good. I've actually just run into this bug myself after wanting to reconvert all my music to a lower bit rate for my iPhone. I was going to fix it locally, the amount of effort I put into it depends though on how likely patches are to be merged back. That bug I linked to with a patch was raised 12 months ago and was last modified 7 months ago.