Apologies are needed.
What happened to my manners? I must be getting old or senile (or Both!).
Let me explain...
Many moons ago, I put forward a request for a feature. For some reason, I can't find this request. I had thought it was via an email, but I can't find it or indeed a post here, might have been DM, but can't find it.
I was tagging a very large bunch of files. There was a lot to be done with these. And I wanted to cut some time from this (back and forth with actions and filters). So a one click option was what I was after, similar to what I have in excel. Florian politely said "nope can't do that". So I ploughed on with my task.
See where I'm going now?
I hadn't delved into those extras in beta7. It didn't immediately jump out at me, that (NEW: added support for toolbar customisation.), was/is what I was asking for, those many moons ago.
Now, in the here and now, many moons later, I find it's here, even better than just the one or two buttons I was after.
So here are my manners. A huge THANK YOU to Florian.
So sorry for not picking this up earlier.
Now to put some of my actions together into one action. The way I do this, is by opening the Action folder (File>Open configuration folder) and navigate to the Action folder (data>actions). I then make a new folder here and copy the actions I what to join together. To have them process in the right order rename those copies by adding a number to the front (1, 2, etc) i.e. Case conversion.mta to 01 Case conversion.mta, coverart.mta to 02 coverart.mta, and so on. Now open a cmd prompt (right click and choose 'Command Prompt') at this folder and join them by typing "copy *.mta newname.mta" no quotes. Move this new mta to the actions folder and you can now delete the new folder if you wish.
For those that have never looked at the actions in a text editor. If there is more than one action in your group (action), they are numbered [#0], [#1] etc.
The numbering used in this new actions do not matter as mp3tag will re-number them for you when you run this new action.
You could keep your new folder and give it an intelligent name and create other folders for each new grouped action you make. Remembering to move/copy the new action to the actions folder. You could also save a small batch file to make the new action file. To do this, in the new folder, right click>New>Text Document, open this new document and in one line put copy *.mta yournewname.mta , close this file and rename it and it's extension to yournewname.bat. Running this will put together those mta files in that folder. You could also add your full path to the actions folder, in the batch file i.e. C:\Users\your\full\path\to\Mp3tag\data\actions\ so full line of code would be ''copy *.mta C:\your\full\path\to\Mp3tag\data\actions\yournewname.mta" no quotes and no need to move the new mta file. There is more you can add to this batch file, but I wanted to keep it simple (I'm a simple guy). To edit the batch file right click and choose 'Edit'.
I intend to keep my new folders and the copies of the mta's so I now what's in each new action, as come next month I will have forgotten!
Oh and before I forget, can something be done with the info bar. Text sizing? Currently on my monitor the two fields are 2 feet apart (620mm) with most of my work done on the left side of the screen, it's not in my field of view. I know you have said no to 'have the ability to move the info' closer together or placed elsewhere. It doesn't hurt to ask again.
Also in the 'Extended Tags...' box could the 'auto scrolling', start a few (five or more) lines before it gets to the bottom, so we can see what's coming up a bit sooner. And I promise not to ask for anything else until next time!
That's it.
Apologies given.
Thank you.
Ian