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Topic: Batch updating the Genre field.

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Greetings,

I've been rebuilding my video collection with new MP4 videos. And it's time to start assigning genres to a lot of files.

I love the feature of selecting multiple songs, typing the changes in the Genre field and hitting "Apply to all". But one thing I found that is a problem for me.

If I have info already in the Genre field... when I "Apply to all" it wipes out info I had in the field. Is there a way to append my info instead of replacing all?


Regards,

Jimmy L.
 
Posted Thu 20 Dec 12 @ 2:56 am
Not sure if i understand, but i would advice you to use http://www.mp3tag.de/en/index.html

You can match two tag fields into a another one and much more.
It is a verry strong tool!

So you can write by batch into any filed -> genre + comment (example)
After that batch back the field into the genre field and you will have what you want.
 
DJLB,

Thanks for the link. I'm running it. But I"m not sure it will do what I want.

If I have for example 3 songs with Genre field tags like:

Motown Slow Hot!

Motown Funk R&B

Motown Disco Club

And then want to append: 80's to all 3 (my project involves way more than 3 songs for batch processing)

To make the Genres look like:

Motown Slow Hot! 80's

Motown Disco Club 80's

Motown Funk R&B 80's


I don't want to wipe out what was already there. I just want to append "80's" to a batch of highlighted files.

I've tried the program to do this. I selected several files that had something in the field already like "Dance" in one and "Club" in another.

Then I want to append "Hot!" to both of them. I tried using the "<keep>" selection and add "Hot!", but then I get: "<keep> Hot!". It wipes out "Dance" and "Club".

I'll need more time to figure this out. Initially I'm stumped.

But thank you, thank you, thank you, for helping me . This program is very nice.


Regards,

Jimmy
 
If it's just the year you want to add use the "year field" in the browser search paths.

Right click on the tabs below the search window and select which fields you want to add.

Then highlight all the songs you want to add information to, add your info, then select apply to all/ok.
 
Right ;-)


The same with mp3tag.

Load the folder or all and sort your files by genere.

Select all Motown Slow Hot! and change them to Motown Slow Hot! 80's with one action.

Then select the next one etc etc .
 
In Mp3 Tag you need to use append under "Action" in order to create that action first then highlight all files you need to edit, then choose the Newly created action and apply, it's magic...

But you will still have to Reload from tags all those edited files in VDJ because VDJ will not pick up the change automatically..

Good Luck,

Joey...
 


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