file rename help - add text within brackets

[idealcrash]

Hi!

Sorry for what might be a trivial question, but I've been struggling with this for hours. I have a series of audio files of the following type:

20120804 192127 thaw (acoustic take 1).m4a

The first 8 digits are the date, then the time (unimportant), and then the title.

I'd like to know if there is an algorithm to insert the first 8 digits (ie the date) within the bracket, like this:

20120804 192127 thaw (20120804 acoustic take 1).m4a

Ideally this would be done in search/replace by searching for "(" and replacing it with "([N1-8]" but that doesn't work, or at least I haven't found a way to make it work.

If anyone could help it would be much appreciated. Thanks!

[Sob]

Regular expressions can help. Search for:

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^(\d{8})([^\(]+)\(

Replace with:

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$1$2($1 

And don't forget to check RegEx.

[nsp]

Hi!

Sorry for what might be a trivial question, but I've been struggling with this for hours. I have a series of audio files of the following type:

20120804 192127 thaw (acoustic take 1).m4a

The first 8 digits are the date, then the time (unimportant), and then the title.

I'd like to know if there is an algorithm to insert the first 8 digits (ie the date) within the bracket, like this:

20120804 192127 thaw (20120804 acoustic take 1).m4a

Ideally this would be done in search/replace by searching for "(" and replacing it with "([N1-8]" but that doesn't work, or at least I haven't found a way to make it work.

If anyone could help it would be much appreciated. Thanks!

Use regex Expression:

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Search for :^((\d{8})\s\d{6})([^\(]+)\((.*)\)$
Replace with: $1$3($2 $4)

tick RegEx
Verify that [E] is not selected
That should do it.
$1 is date + Time
$2 is Date
$3 is title
$4 is album or whatever inside ()
--Edited Sob was faster --

[idealcrash]

Thank you so much Sob and nsp! Both these methods do the job, thanks for your time!