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Old 05-27-2014, 03:26 PM   #4
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Originally Posted by cybmole View Post
ok - I thought that calibre only accepted file types which were on it's " I understand these" list

but yes I see that it works as you describe. So if I have the patiece to set metadata, then I can go ahead and add as many files as I wish

can I set a specific rule for extracting metadata from file name, to apply only to these new formats ( i.e. no change to how I import actual ebooks) . I doubt my file naming has been historically consistent, but I should be able to get at least one descriptive field from a file name
@cybmole - You can get author & title from the file name providing your file names conform to what you have in the Add Books->Configure metadata from filename->Regular Expression

That regex edit box operates as a MRU list - so you have to change it before you add different 'types' of books - eg regular books, guitar lessons, movies etc. But if you only have a few 'types' it should be liveable with - I have different regex's for my books, journals and media libraries.

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