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That seems to work a treat! lol I have no idea how, lol. The "chcp 1252", the "delims= and the "('dir /a-d /b /s *.mkv')" all leave me utterly confused, lol. I guess I'll just have to go off and learn how all these script commands, syntax & arguments all work However, your code seems to do exactly ...

Yes the options.json file is important. It does other things besides populating the title field (though it could). The original code was written by someone to alter various things in the MKV file but it does the same thing to every file it processes. (Things like setting the Language, Default, Forc...

I'm not sure how to change the batch now. Are you suggesting I remove the bit that creates a new destination folder ("mkvmerge_out") altogether. Does this now delete the originals?

Hi Steffen, Thanks for your suggestions. Here is the original code (written by someone else, of course) that I am trying to modify to do what I want. @echo off set mkvmerge="C:\Program Files\MKVToolNix\mkvmerge.exe" if not exist "options.json" ( echo Options file 'options.json' not found. Exiting. ...

Thanks, I'll certainly try what you suggest.

The recursion into sub-folders isn't that important. If I can get it to work on just one folder then I'll be more than happy.

Yes, the output path would be the current folder. The idea is to run the batch file in the folder where the videoes are stored (and, hopefully, recurse the operation in any/all sub-folders that are in that dir3ectory too) How would that affect your code suggestion (if at all)? Also, the filenames ar...

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