Quality-String: Title Formatting Script Snippet for foobar2000

Quality-String: Title Formatting Script Snippet

edit 3 (2022-10-04): Foremost thanks for the gold, kind stranger! As a second I did some upgrades and switches for customisation. Since I'm already editing the post anyway I'll take the opportunity to reformat my post in it's entirety. If something's wrong, missing or needs improvement, tell me!

This script gives compressed information about codecs, profiles, bitrates, samplerates and channels. It can be used as a column in your playlist, as folder suffix in your file operation presets, as a category in your album list views or as part of a masstagger script.

this script should be pretty useful for every serious collector (looking at you soulseek folks)

edits & features:
- channels now are at end of the string (get skipped when stereo)
- 'WavPack' shows up as WVC instead of WV
- 'Monkey's Audio' shows up as APE
- 'Musepack' shows up as MPC and it's codec profiles/qualities as Q7 (Insane), Q8 (BrainDead) etc.
- Vorbis Profiles get recognized via %bitrate_nominal%
- for easy customization I added some variables at the beginning of the script
   - delimiter DLM: change '-' to '~', '+', '.' etc
   - bracket BRC: change '[]' to '()', '{}', '<>' or omit if you don't want them at all (in that case also delete the 2 apostrophes)
   - kiloHertz KHZ: change kHz to k or delete
   - BitsPerSample BPS: change bit to b or delete
   - Bitrate BTR: change kbps to kb, k or delete (most bitrates like 192 or 320 are pretty self-explanatory)
   - write standard WST: if you want to omit samplerate and bits per sample on standard cd rips (16b-44k) then set WST to 0 else 1.

I'd recommend editing the script in an editor and not in foobar
script:
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$puts(DLM,'-')$puts(BRC,'[]')$puts(KHZ,kHz)$puts(BPS,bit)$puts(BTR,kbps)$puts(WST,1)$puts(CHN,$ifgreater($info(channels),2,$get(DLM)$info(channels)Ch,$ifequal($info(channels),1,$get(DLM)Mono,)))$puts(VBQ,$replace($info(bitrate_nominal),32,Q-2,45,Q-1,48,Q-1,64,Q0,80,Q1,96,Q2,112,Q3,128,Q4,160,Q5,192,Q6,224,Q7,227,Q7,256,Q8,320,Q9,500,Q10))$puts(BRS,$if($greater(%samplerate%,199000),,$if($and($equal(%samplerate%,44100),$equal($info(bitspersample),16),$equal($get(WST),1)),$get(DLM)$info(bitspersample)$get(BPS)$get(DLM)$div(%samplerate%,1000)$get(KHZ),$if($and($equal(%samplerate%,44100),$equal($info(bitspersample),16),$equal($get(WST),0)),,$get(DLM)$info(bitspersample)$get(BPS)$get(DLM)$div(%samplerate%,1000)$get(KHZ)))))$puts(EXT,$upper($if($or($stricmp($ext(%filename_ext%),aif),$stricmp($ext(%filename_ext%),aiff)),AIFF,$if($or($stricmp($ext(%filename_ext%),mid),$stricmp($ext(%filename_ext%),midi),$stricmp($ext(%filename_ext%),kar),$stricmp($ext(%filename_ext%),rmi)),MIDI,$ext(%filename_ext%)))))$puts(CDC,$replace($upper($replace($lower(%codec%),monkey''s audio,APE,wavpack,WVC,musepack,MPC)),' (FLOATING-POINT)',,IMA ADPCM,ADPCM,PCM,$get(EXT)))$puts(CPR,$upper($replace($lower($info(codec_profile)),quality ,q,'',,braindead,q8,insane,q7,xtreme,q1,standard,q5,radio,q4,thumb,q3,telephone,q2,unstable'/'experimental,UST,vbr ,))$get(VBQ))$puts(LSY,$get(CDC)$if($stricmp($get(CPR),CBR),$get(DLM)%bitrate%$get(BTR),$if($info(codec_profile),$get(DLM)$get(CPR),$if($info(bitrate_nominal),$get(DLM)$get(VBQ),))))$puts(LSL,$get(CDC)$get(BRS))$puts(FMT,$if($stricmp($info(encoding),lossy),$get(LSY),$if($stricmp($info(encoding),lossless),$get(LSL),$get(EXT))))$insert($get(BRC),$get(FMT)$get(CHN),1)
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(copy and paste to custom column)

outputted strings:
AAC-LC-Mono
AAC-LC
AAC-SBR
ADPCM-Mono
AIFF-16bit-44kHz
AIFF-16bit-48kHz
AIFF-24bit-44kHz
AIFF-24bit-48kHz
AIFF-32bit-44kHz
APE-16bit-44kHz
APE-24bit-192kHz
DSD64
DSD128
DSD256
DSD512
DST64-6Ch
FLAC-16bit-44kHz-6Ch
FLAC-16bit-44kHz
FLAC-16bit-192kHz
FLAC-24bit-44kHz
FLAC-24bit-48kHz
FLAC-24bit-96kHz
FLAC-24bit-192kHz
MIDI
MP2-112kbps
MP2-128kbps
MP2-192kbps
MP2-256kbps
MP3-24kbps-Mono
MP3-32kbps-Mono
MP3-32kbps
MP3-40kbps-Mono
MP3-48kbps-Mono
MP3-48kbps
MP3-56kbps-Mono
MP3-56kbps
MP3-64kbps-Mono
MP3-64kbps
MP3-80kbps
MP3-96kbps-Mono
MP3-96kbps
MP3-111kbps
MP3-112kbps
MP3-128kbps-Mono
MP3-128kbps
MP3-160kbps
MP3-192kbps
MP3-224kbps
MP3-320kbps
MP3-ABR
MP3-VBR
MP3-V1
MP3-V2
MP3-V2-Mono
..
MP3-V9
MPC-Q1
..
MPC-Q10
OPUS-Mono
OPUS
VGM
VORBIS-Q-1
VORBIS-Q0
VORBIS-Q1
..
VORBIS-Q10
WAV-8bit-8kHz-Mono
WAV-16bit-44kHz
WAV-16bit-48kHz-Mono
WAV-16bit-48kHz
WAV-16bit-96kHz
WAV-24bit-44kHz
WAV-24bit-48kHz
WAV-24bit-96kHz
WAV-32bit-11kHz
WAV-32bit-32kHz
WAV-32bit-44kHz-Mono
WAV-32bit-44kHz
WAV-32bit-48kHz
WMA-Mono
WMA-V1
..
WMA-V9
WVC-16bit-44kHz
WVC-24bit-96kHz
WVC-32bit-192kHz

if it throws only MP3 or MP3-134 (weird bitrates) try using utilities>fix vbr header