I had a problem with my computer & it froze on me while i was writing metadata to an album, I had to shut it down & turn off my external hard drive with my music on it. where I had the album label meta data typed in the publisher fieldname, after turning my computer back on & looking at my albums, …

[image] Sossity: Columbia Records has now been changed to Organization - Columbia Records..... it would be very tedious to go back & redo them all to the publisher fieldname. Use the swap fields function that guess values has. For your purpose use: Begin Action Group _Script Test#TEST Actio…

[image] stevehero: Use the swap fields function that guess values has. For your purpose use: Begin Action Group _Script Test#TEST Action #1 Actiontype 7: Import tag fields (guess values) Source format __: %publisher%~%organization% Guessing pattern: %organization%~%publisher% End Action Group _…

[image] Sossity: thanks for this, but I am not familiar with making action groups could someone give me step by step instructions on how to do this? Have you not read the FAQ?? /t/967/1

[image] stevehero: Have you not read the FAQ?? /t/967/1 yes I did but I still do not know where in the steps to add all those other items like the action 1 & all the swaps.

[image] stevehero: Use the swap fields function that guess values has. For your purpose use: Begin Action Group _Script Test#TEST Action #1 Actiontype 7: Import tag fields (guess values) Source format __: %publisher%~%organization% Guessing pattern: %organization%~%publisher% End Action Group _…

JJ Johnson: I'm not sure that this will work as you intend. Because of Mp3tag's default vorbis comment tag mapping of ORGANIZATION to the internal PUBLISHER field name, both %organization% and %publisher% will reference a field named ORGANIZATION. I assume the publisher field is empty in whi…

[image] stevehero: I assume the publisher field is empty in which case swapping will work leaving the publisher field full and the organization one empty therefore deleting it. As long as Mp3tag's default mapping of PUBLISHER to ORGANIZATION remains, there's no way that the two names can ad…

JJ Johnson: In testing, that's not how it works for me. As I said in another thread, maybe it's a bug, but I end up with the original field being emptied, but not deleted. With me it simply deletes the organization tag (because the publisher is empty) and formats what was there in the organ…

after compter froze, all my albums label fildname changed to organization

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stevehero July 16, 2012, 9:27am 4

Have you not read the FAQ?? /t/967/1