Reinterpret

This page discusses how to reinterpret your song names to extract meta data out of them to get it in the right columns.

After you "Add to Library…" your songs, they may show up with ALL the meta data glommed into the "Song Name" field. Hopefully each bit of data is delimited by a dash character "-", which will allow kJams to automatically extract each bit and distribute it to the proper column. That way you can sort by those columns (eg: name, artist, album).

First you must understand the idea of name templates. A name template is a specification for the format of the file name. A popular example would be "L-T - R - S", this is a template specification, it literatlly means "album name dash track number space dash space artist name space dash space song name". Note that the spaces are significant. Since Artist and Album both begin with A, i don't use the letter A, i use R for aRtist and L for aLbum. Another valid template letter is "I" which stands for "ignore". This lets you skip over un-interesting parts of the name. Also valid are parentheses ( )

You may need A Better Finder Rename to pre-process your files in order to ensure they fall into a template that can be supported by the Reinterpret Names function.