willyhoops;195661 Wrote: > how do you do a edit replace "J S Bach" with "Bach" in mp3tag??? You > can't... you have to manually edit each track artist despite the > spreadsheet like view. mp3tag has no edit replace functionality that > can work across multiple tracks. For example i often want to shorten > the track names for classical music by replacing a common starting > string with "". > > And that's not even taking into account more complex excel features > like building formulas which i often use with this program.
Yes you can. Are we talking about the same program?? http://mp3tag.de/en There are a variety of ways to do this in Mp3tag. Probably the easiest is to load up some number of tracks (or all of your tracks if you prefer) and then use a filter to select those with ARTIST, COMPOSER, whatever field you like, of "J S Bach", which will keep only the tracks you want to change. Select all of them (Ctrl-A) and enter "Bach" for the field in either the tag panel on the left, or using the extended tag dialog (the white paper with pencil icon). Another way is to use an Action, which is a small script or macro. The simplest would use an $if() construct. Create an action (use the 'Actions(Quick)' button if you want to create a one-time action that isn't stored) of type 'Format value' on the field COMPOSER, and use the format string: $if($eql(%composer%,J S Bach),Bach,%composer%) This could be run on the entire library if you like. Then there's the even more powerful use of regular expressions in Mp3tag actions. You could use a single 'Replace with regular expression' action and a regex that replaces any variation of "J S Bach", "J.S. Bach", "Johan Sebastian Bach", etc. etc. in a single operation. -- JJZolx Jim ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34540 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
