Ex Falso: remove leading zeros

[lazka]

Original issue 636 created by alextasikas on 2010-12-29T16:06:08.000Z:

Maybe there is already a way and I don't know it, so this is just a question
Maybe there is no way, so this is a feature request...

I am often using the "Tags From Paths" feature and it suits me!!!
But is there a way to remove leading zeros from tracknumber?

e.g.
Due to the way I organise my directories, I am often using this option: "<artist> - <album> - <year>/<tracknumber> - <title>", but the result is a "trcknumber" like 01 or 05...
What can I do to have the same results but removing leading zeros?

thank you

[lazka]

Comment #1 originally posted by reiter.christoph on 2010-12-29T16:34:13.000Z:

You could use <~#track> (http://code.google.com/p/quodlibet/wiki/InternalTags)

[lazka]

Comment #2 originally posted by alextasikas on 2011-01-01T14:56:11.000Z:

Even though I found little bit confusing (the explanations) in the wiki page you provided, I made some tests and <~#track> is what I needed... thank you reiter.christoph !!!

I also found the <~#year> tag and another question came to me:
Is there a way to replace the "-" character with the "." in the date tag (eg "2003-10-28" --> "2003.10.28") ?
and furthermore is this o matter of ExFalso or a matter of Mutagen library?

thanx in advance

[lazka]

Comment #3 originally posted by joe.wreschnig on 2011-01-01T16:53:52.000Z:

The ID3 standard mandates that date format for date fields. Mutagen will understand nearly any separator (-, T, :, /, ., or whitespace), but forces ID3 timestamps to use - for days, : for times, and T to separate date and time, to comply with the standard.

Ex Falso could allow it for non-ID3 formats, but one of the goals of EF/QL was to pick the highest sensible lowest common denominator of formats and design its UI around that - hence, it forces all formats to use ID3-style timestamps for date-related fields. In the case of dates, this has the practical benefit of bytewise sort always working for date fields.