Tagging movies...

[disassembledmind]

I have been trying to update my movie collection tags using an IMDB script and Mp3tag. They are all mp4 w/H264. To make sure I was using the right fields for MM, I made a template of sorts. I took a movie, erased all the tags, imported it into MM, and then used the file properties box to fill in Actor, Director, Producer, and Screenwriter. I removed the movie from my library, ran an altered version of the script so those fields were the ones populated, and then re-added the movie. I understand that MM uses the artist field in movies for Director, so the adjustment I made worked fine there. The rest of the fields however were blank when I re-imported it. When I manually make the corrections and check it again using Mp3tag, it shows the same information in the same fields as the script had. So I guess my question is, does MediaMonkey only recognize the Actor, Producer and Screenwriter fields if they are manually filled in? I also tested all the fields on the detail tab and got the same results. I'm using version 4.1.0.1683 and have tried with "Infer file properties" and "Only for files with changed timestamp or size" both checked and unchecked. Any help or suggestions would be appreciated.

[Lowlander]

What writes tags is irrelevant, but how they're written may be the difference. For what MMW reads/writes see: http://www.mediamonkey.com/wiki/index.p ... erties/4.0

[disassembledmind]

It's funny Lowlander, your response kind of bugged me when I first read it. I'm like great, he basically re-worded my very question, but didn't answer it. Then he sends me to a page I've read a dozen times already and hasn't helped. Until now. I went back and read over the page AGAIN, and there in big capital letters was my answer. For all 'Non-Standard' tag fields, whatever is in parenthesis is the "how they're written" difference. So in the case of actors, it's ACTORS. What threw me was that I had used Actor, Actors, ACTOR AND ACTORS in all variations in both the field and value columns for Mp3tag, and none of them worked when I opened the files in MediaMonkey. That's because how Mp3tag displays a tag, and how it writes it, are separate things. I can write actors, Actors, or ACTORS to tag, and all 3 will be displayed in my ACTORS field for Mp3tag, but MediaMonkey will only be able to display it if it was written to tag as ACTORS. A quick adjustment to the IMDB script and problem solved. Now if I could just find a way to automate the process so I didn't have to do 2,000 movies one at a time.

[dtsig]

It's funny Lowlander, your response kind of bugged me when I first read it. I'm like great, he basically re-worded my very question, but didn't answer it. Then he sends me to a page I've read a dozen times already and hasn't helped. Until now. I went back and read over the page AGAIN, and there in big capital letters was my answer. For all 'Non-Standard' tag fields, whatever is in parenthesis is the "how they're written" difference. So in the case of actors, it's ACTORS. What threw me was that I had used Actor, Actors, ACTOR AND ACTORS in all variations in both the field and value columns for Mp3tag, and none of them worked when I opened the files in MediaMonkey. That's because how Mp3tag displays a tag, and how it writes it, are separate things. I can write actors, Actors, or ACTORS to tag, and all 3 will be displayed in my ACTORS field for Mp3tag, but MediaMonkey will only be able to display it if it was written to tag as ACTORS. A quick adjustment to the IMDB script and problem solved. Now if I could just find a way to automate the process so I didn't have to do 2,000 movies one at a time.

<g> yeah sometime the brevity of information and the extrapolation needed from that brevity can be a bit frustrating at times. I am trrying to learn the vbs script bits to work with MMW and jumping between so many links to build a simple answer can be .. BUT it is the 3rd or 4th reading that the bits start falling together.
Sounds like you are making a nice change to the script. Hope you make it available. Would love to try it.