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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>