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Originally Posted by Adoby
You are in luck! Calibre is the perfect tool for what you need.
1. Import with the full filename as the title.
2. Then use a couple of search and replace with regular expressions to populate other fields from the title. Authors, series and custom fields so on.
3. Do a final search and replace to remove everything from the title, except the title.
This is the normal process I use when adding books with descriptive AND uniform filenames to calibre.
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I'm doing something similar to this, but with adding books using this regular expression "(?P<author>\[.*?\]) (?P<title>.+) (?P<publisher>(.*?)\(.*?\))".
using the bulk search and replace option to move everything from the "author" column to the "artist" column, and then the "publisher" to the "Thology" column.
When its done I removed the square and round brackets in both columns using character match, then remove all the metadata from the "author" and "publisher" column.
I wouldn't have to go through all this if the regular expession accepted custom columns, the "(?P<author>\[.*?\]) (?P<title>.+) (?P<publisher>(.*?)\(.*?\))" works to automatically add in metadata but the "(?P<artist>\[.*?\]) (?P<title>.+) (?P<thology>(.*?)\(.*?\))" returns an error.