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Scripts that alter tag info

Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2012 10:21 am
by oldtimer
I am an out of work programmer. At my last job I did some vb/.net work. I figured I would play around with MM scripts to exercise my vb skills. I figured I would write some tag manipulation scripts. I have used many different audio managers and normalizers. Each add tags for normalization ect. I think I would like to build a script that removes all the non ID3 tags. My problem it I would not know where to start. It seems to me the ID3 tags are near the beginning of the file and the non standard ones are near the end. I have seen no documentation regarding the tags at the end of the file. I was hoping to find some scripts that manipulated tag info especially non ID3 tag info. MM used to had a script forum and we had lots of script choices. Now I don't see much.

Any suggestions???

Re: Scripts that alter tag info

Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2012 10:41 am
by Lowlander
You're on the scripts forum.

The problem is that tagging scripts only manipulate the database, not the files themselves (they're tagged by MediaMonkey itself). This means that I don't think there are samples of scripts that modify the tags in the files themselves.

Related: http://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/viewto ... 19&t=63889

Re: Scripts that alter tag info

Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2012 1:01 pm
by MMuser2011
Do you like to manipulate the tracks manually (means byte by byte from your own code)?
I suggest, that you use a pre-built library like Taglib: http://developer.kde.org/~wheeler/taglib.html