by reithner » Fri May 18, 2018 9:25 am
bulk edit of file properties
I was recently given a large number of ripped cd's with no properties, but each folder related to a cd has music tracks and a file naming various property items in text format. So the tracks are named as [Index number + track number].mp3, where the index number is same for all album tracks. Thus, no problem identifying and sorting on track number.
I am hoping a script exists that allows me to specify a range of tracks, then execute a script that updates track-specific properties (artist, album, genre, track number, title). So in one operation, I take the text based file info, incorporate album specific properties like genre, etc. and create a text file or spreadsheet with one row for each track and probably a row telling the script what properties are being updated. I imagine it would look something like this:
INDEX, Contributing Artist, Album, Genre, Date, Track Number, Title;
12345601, The Ramones, Greatest Hits, Punk, 2001, 01, Rockaway Beach;
12345602, The Ramones, Greatest Hits, Punk, 2001, 02, I Want to be Sedated;
Etc....
It seems that this kind of functionality should be easy to implement but I can't find anything in MM forum or in Mp3tag to support bulk property edits for multiple track-related properties. Obviously, it's no problem to update a list of files with a single value such as edit Genre to be "Punk".
Does anyone have any ideas? If I can't find a way to automate I may just delete all the music, it's really too much work to access the properties one track at a time and input all those titles and track numbers.
bulk edit of file properties
I was recently given a large number of ripped cd's with no properties, but each folder related to a cd has music tracks and a file naming various property items in text format. So the tracks are named as [Index number + track number].mp3, where the index number is same for all album tracks. Thus, no problem identifying and sorting on track number.
I am hoping a script exists that allows me to specify a range of tracks, then execute a script that updates track-specific properties (artist, album, genre, track number, title). So in one operation, I take the text based file info, incorporate album specific properties like genre, etc. and create a text file or spreadsheet with one row for each track and probably a row telling the script what properties are being updated. I imagine it would look something like this:
INDEX, Contributing Artist, Album, Genre, Date, Track Number, Title;
12345601, The Ramones, Greatest Hits, Punk, 2001, 01, Rockaway Beach;
12345602, The Ramones, Greatest Hits, Punk, 2001, 02, I Want to be Sedated;
Etc....
It seems that this kind of functionality should be easy to implement but I can't find anything in MM forum or in Mp3tag to support bulk property edits for multiple track-related properties. Obviously, it's no problem to update a list of files with a single value such as edit Genre to be "Punk".
Does anyone have any ideas? If I can't find a way to automate I may just delete all the music, it's really too much work to access the properties one track at a time and input all those titles and track numbers.