I use Batch Renaming for markers in montages fairly often to remove characters at the head (usually counters but sometimes band name and things like that). What bugs me a bit is that you don’t get any proper preview of what it will do when you’re setting the parameters. I can of course click “Next” to go to “preview all” but what I’d love to see is some form of representation of what I’m actually dealing with in the Preview section on the setup page. I know I can put in my own text there and see the result, but when the renaming window is open you can’t click anywhere outside to for example copy a title. I think this could be streamlined a bit better.
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Don’t you save and reuse presets? Because in that case, you ignore parameters and quickly go to the preview.
Yes, I do have a preset based on how I sometimes name files myself - it’s to remove the first 3 characters=two numbers and a space. But say I get a set of files named like “Band name - 01 - Song name.wav”. I can sit and count the characters, or of course just cancel out of the dialogue, mark one of the markers, copy the text, open the batch renaming again, paste it into the preview section. Not exactly intuitive.