Changing Artist name for videos?

[DayOff]

I imported all my music videos into MediaMonkey and they're all categorized under Video. However, when I go to manually change a property of an item in my library, it doesn't let me change the 'Artist' field...it's showing all these very TV/Movie specific entries like Director/Series/Producers/Actors.... but not Artists.

On most tracks I can tag from filename (except where I run into an issue with MM handling small artistnames and leaving it blank)...and I noticed there's an area in the program to change the default view (columns) when I click on my videos...so it's looking just how I want it, but I can't get the tags straightened out manually...or automatically from filename..

Am I missing a setting, or should these musicvideos be under 'music', not 'videos'?

Pete

[Lowlander]

They probably should be Type = Music Video. Anyway you can always enable the appropriate columns in the filelisting even when Properties doesn't show them. And some fields will use different field names for different Types, but still be the same.

[DayOff]

Yeah, I finally ran across that...thanks for following up, though.

I'm not sure how they all ended up under 'Video' Previously... unfortunately somehow down the line the 'tag from filename' went a little haywire and even though I hadn't modified any settings in how it was creating files/tagging/etc, it went through and changed all my files to the wrong artist tags...so as I was going from filename to MM, organizing things, then making it organize the files based on the MM organization style, it double named the files to <artist>-<artist>-<title>... and changed the title to <artist>-<title> in MM...for 95% of the titles...so i'm having a good 'ol time getting this back on track since it's not even consistent per artist anymore...

[Lowlander]

How Type is defined: http://www.mediamonkey.com/wiki/index.p ... _Rules/4.0

Auto-Tag from Filename: http://www.mediamonkey.com/wiki/index.p ... lename/4.0 and masks: http://www.mediamonkey.com/wiki/index.p ... ormats/4.0
Just make sure you always verify the results of Auto-Tag from Filename, Auto-Organize Files and Auto-Tag from Web in their respective windows before applying any changes.

Also check out the RegExp Find & Fix addon as it can be very helpful when fixing tags: viewtopic.php?f=2&t=28510&hilit=regexp