Hi Annie, I'm surprised that the field for changing values is not accessible in the File Renamer applescript. I found that script, too. But are you sure that you can't change that field? The way the dialog boxes work for Doug's AppleScripts, is that there's usually a text box filled with a default value. I just downloaded the script to check. Did you try clicking in the text box so you could edit it? Remember, if you are in QuickNav mode, you may think that you can't edit the text box. I did a VO-Shift-Space, and then I could delete the default string: [artist] - [name] Remember that each of the arguments like "artist" and "name" is surrounded by brackets. In order to use a valid field for the text box, you have to examine one of the ePub files you want to rename and check which fields are used. Select an ePub track, then do Command-I to "Get Info", and examine the "Info" tab. My O'Reilly books use "name", "artist", and "album", where "name" and "album", give the title of the book, and "artist" gives the author. My iPhone user guides from iBooks only use "name" and "artist". Do not try to type in a field like "[author]", because that's not a tag that iTunes uses. If, for example, you wanted to use the author, you would delete references to "[name]" and have the text argument only contain a string like: [artist] I don't know which field your ePub books use for the tag information on title. If the title information is under the "comments" field, and you wanted to replace the name with the contents of that field, you would type in: [comments] Hope this is clear. Any argument that you use in the text field has to be a valid tag field that actually corresponds to a field that is used for you ePub books. Maybe the "description" field is used for title information. You can activate it in the "View" menu options by bringing up the window with Command-J and checking the box for "description". None of my ePub books use this field, and you won't find it on the "Info" tab, but you can set your library to display this.
HTH. The only thing I don't like about the new Gatekeeper protocols is that you can no longer directly view any of the AppleScript codes. They're buried under the Package contents of the script under Resources > Scripts > main.scpt. This used to be a great way to learn about AppleScript coding. This didn't seem like Doug's style of writing AppleScripts, and I found out that this was a contributed AppleScript from someone else that he re-wrote. By the way, I thought that the "This Tag That Tag" AppleScript might also rename your files if you allow iTunes to organize your library, since the folder and file names then match the tags. Cheers, Esther On 21 Apr 2013, at 04:49, Annie Skov Nielsen wrote: > Hi Esther. > > I found in fact an app on dougscripts, where you can specify which fields > should appear in the new title, it is called file renamer, unfortunately the > field for changing the values is not accessible, but it automatically uses > the author and the title. > > It is an interesting scripts site, that I can use several scripts from. I > think I will need to make a donation. > > Cheers Annie. > On Apr 21, 2013, at 5:42 AM, Esther <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Annie, >> >> If these ePub files are in your iTunes library, I think you can just use >> some of the AppleScripts for iTunes at Doug Adams' web site to automate >> changing the titles. The only thing I'm wondering is if the whether the >> epub files use the same keywords. I think that the file name field is just >> "name", which is the same as the "name" track for music tracks. And for my >> ePub books, the author is entered into the "artist" field. Probably the >> "This Tag That Tag" AppleScript could be used for this. From the >> description, I think the way this AppleScript works is that you select your >> tracks in iTunes, then you run the script, which you just locate by name >> "This Tag That Tag" under the scripts menu. This menu shows up once you >> copy the AppleScript to a "Library/iTunes/Scripts" folder under your user >> account. If you have never used AppleScripts in iTunes before, you'll have >> to create the "Scripts" folder in this location. Once you've selected this >> AppleScript, a dialog menu should come up to let you choose what action you >> want to take with your tags: copy, append, swap, or prepend. In this case >> you'd select "copy". Then you'd select the metadata tag fields that you'd >> want to use. So maybe in this case you'd want to copy the "album" tag to >> the "name" tag, or the "artist" tag to the "name" tag. I'm making up these >> examples, because I don't actually know how your ePub files are tagged, or >> even which fields you are using. Just note that these changes are not >> reversible, so if you want to be extra cautious, make a set of copies of >> your tracks beforehand. And just choose one ePub book to try the >> AppleScript out with before you run this with several files selected. >> >> It's also possible that there's a better AppleScript to use for the purposes >> that you want under the "Managing Track Info" group of AppleScripts at that >> site. I haven't used (or even downloaded) the AppleScript in question, >> although I have previously used other AppleScripts from this site before. >> >> I think you want to get the "This Tag That Tag" AppleScript from this URL at >> the dougscripts.com site: >> http://dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/ss.php?sp=thistagthattag >> >> The AppleScript "This Tag That Tag v.3.2 can be found as a heading level 2. >> Navigate with VO-Down arrow to read the description and then to read the >> group of two download links for downloading the script and the read me pdf >> file. There's also a heading level 3 description of "how to download & >> install" that explains that the download file will be a .zip that opens as a >> .dmg file. (Navigate with VO-Down arrow here, as well, to read the >> description.) It also explains that you should put the script contents of >> the of the .dmg file into your ~/Library/iTunes/Scripts folder, and that you >> may have to create the Scripts folder if this is your first AppleScript >> under iTunes. Just use standard Finder navigation (e.g. use Command-Shift-G >> to "go to folder", and then type or paste in the path: >> ~/LIbrary/iTunes/ >> -- or tilde slash Library slash iTunes for the directory, then create the >> Scripts folder, and navigate to it. You can copy and paste the AppleScript >> to this location. You can also save the Read me file somewhere convenient. >> >> There may be other scripts you can use, but this seemed to be one suited to >> your requirements. >> >> HTH. Cheers, >> >> Esther >> >> On 19 Apr 2013, at 05:32, Annie Skov Nielsen wrote: >> >>> Hi. >>> >>> I have some epub files which has some rather strange file names, can I >>> change them based on the metadata of the files. >>> >>> It would be great if there is a way to convert multiple files to correct >>> file names based on e.g. the title field or maybe also the author field of >>> the metadata, does anyone know how I can do that. I have tried playing a >>> little with ITunes, but I can not get ITunes to do what I want. >>> >>> Best regards Annie. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
