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<page xmlns="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/"
xmlns:its="http://www.w3.org/2005/11/its"
type="topic" style="task"
id="format-specifier">
<info>
<link type="guide" xref="index#main"/>
<revision pkgversion="2.1.9" date="2013-08-18" status="candidate"/>
<credit type="author">
<name>Ekaterina Gerasimova</name>
<email its:translate="no">kittykat3756@googlemail.com</email>
</credit>
<include href="legal.xml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"/>
<desc>What is a format-specifier and which ones can I use?</desc>
</info>
<title>Format specifiers</title>
<p><em>Format specifiers</em> can be used to split a file name into tags and
to name a file or playlist based on existing tags using
<link xref="scanner">the scanner</link>.</p>
<table rules="rows" frame="top bottom">
<thead>
<tr>
<td>
<p>Format specifier</p>
</td>
<td>
<p>Corresponding tag field</p>
</td>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>
<p its:translate="no">%a</p>
</td>
<td>
<p>Artist: this is the artist or artists who created the track, this
field may contact a featured artist as well as the album artist</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<p its:translate="no">%z</p>
</td>
<td>
<p>Album artist</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<p its:translate="no">%b</p>
</td>
<td>
<p>Album title</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<p its:translate="no">%c</p>
</td>
<td>
<p>Comment: this is the free-form comment field</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<p its:translate="no">%p</p>
</td>
<td>
<p>Composer: this is the creator of the track</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<p its:translate="no">%r</p>
</td>
<td>
<p>Copyright holder: this is usually the artist, but it can also be
the record label</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<p its:translate="no">%d</p>
</td>
<td>
<p>Disc number</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<p its:translate="no">%e</p>
</td>
<td>
<p>Encoded by: this is usually the person who encoded the file, but
the field is also used for the application that was used to encode
the file</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<p its:translate="no">%g</p>
</td>
<td>
<p>Genre</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<p its:translate="no">%i</p>
</td>
<td>
<p>Ignored: this format specifier can only be used in <gui>Fill
Tag</gui> to specify parts of the file name which should be
ignored</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<p its:translate="no">%l</p>
</td>
<td>
<p>Number of tracks: the total number of tracks on the medium</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<p its:translate="no">%o</p>
</td>
<td>
<p>Original artist</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<p its:translate="no">%n</p>
</td>
<td>
<p>Track number</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<p its:translate="no">%t</p>
</td>
<td>
<p>Track title</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<p its:translate="no">%u</p>
</td>
<td>
<p>URL</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<p its:translate="no">%x</p>
</td>
<td>
<p>Number of discs</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<p its:translate="no">%y</p>
</td>
<td>
<p>Year of recording, sometimes the date of release is used
instead</p>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</page>
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