Place or move an auto generated number to a position between Artist/Album strings and Title/extension strings.
Albums with Various Artists present particular difficulties, given the variations in Artist and Song title string lengths, and I have been unable to find or compose a solution for this one.
My programming skills are shakey so even reference to Google, the BRU Manual and Stefan's (brilliant) RegEx Hints has not prodded me to an answer.
Test Selection (where # indicates desired position of autonum 01, 02, . . . etc):
Nightwish [The Best of Gothic Rock] # - Bless the Child.mp3
Within Temptation [The Best of Gothic Rock] # - Running Up That Hill.mp3
What I've tried (and failed with) so far
Added a Prefix Autonumber and attempted to shift it (to position of "-"), using many, many variations of this:
Match String: ^([\d{2})\s([A-Z][a-z]*)\s([A-Z])\s-\s(.*)
Replace String: \2 \3\ 1 \4
Didn't work.
The Manual holds this tantalising quote:
"If you enter the special character ":" (colon) in the "Sep." box then this will be replaced with the autonumber at runtime. So a separator value of ABC:DEF: would result in ABC1DEF1, ABC2ABC2 etc."
With this I thought "Eureka, problem solved", but after trying to get "Sep" to recognise and replace all manner of marker characters/symbols that I inserted (into the string and/or the "Sep" box), nothing has worked.
I conclude that I am missing some small and critical element.
Can someone enlighten me. Please.