I am storing a list of genres using commas as the delimiter. I wish to add (maybe remove) a genre - in bulk - from the currently visible/selected view of tracks; yet most importantly, I do not want a genre to be duplicated! Do I do this using filters or action groups? I understand things work a lit…

Solution for anyone reading this thread in the future: Tags were converted to semicolons upon recommendation. Used "Replace" from Quick Actions, however this later (not first time) had issues for me because I drag and drop tracks from Music/iTunes -- I think this thread helped but will see if iss…

See this thread on how to remove duplicates from a list: [image] Merging several Tag Fields into CONTENTGROUP Support Hi, I'm using many Tag Source Scripts to gather all available data about tracks/albums. Since many of them write Tags to the same Tag field I've edited t…

Thanks for the reference. I still need to solve adding and removing tags in bulk - based on selection in browser. Even pointing into direction of what scripting/regex needed (if at all) will help.

The genre selection list only writes a single genre. If you want to add multiple genres this will need to be done manually. You can use the existing genre field and add to it using actions, but not much point if you need to spend as much time writing the action in the first place. [image] b1zguy…

[image] b1zguy: I still need to solve adding and removing tags in bulk The removal of duplicates has already been linked. Here is a thread from the FAQs on how to append an existing field [image] Actions and batch-operations FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) How to …

[image] b1zguy: I still need to solve adding and removing tags in bulk - based on selection in browser. You can also use a dedicated action combined with a filter. Filtering for NOT genre HAS "Rock" would list all files which don't have "Rock" in the genre field. Then, applying an action F…

[image] MotleyG: BTW - a comma isn’t generally the best solution for a delimiter as that character often appears in other tag fields. I suggest you might consider a more unique Unicode character as the separator, or at least the more traditionally used semicolon ; or forward slash / as a better …

There's a lot going on in the thread. Would I use (within the Action Groups section) "Replace with Regular Expression"? option? I'm unsure how the list items thing was included in that thread. And how would I import the .mta file? I think that's the answer in the thread.

[image] Merging several Tag Fields into CONTENTGROUP Support Hi, I'm using many Tag Source Scripts to gather all available data about tracks/albums. Since many of them write Tags to the same Tag field I've edited the scrips so that each script writes it's Tags to unique …

[image] ohrenkino: Yes, in the end you have to use that rather complicated regular expression that only remove duplicates. So, if you do not have duplicates, then you don't have to dig into that thread. I tried the expression in the final reply. Couldn't seem to notice it in a test? Do I nee…

To note, I also tried "Merge Duplicate Fields" and "Remove Duplicate Fields" from the Quick Actions. Not that I know what I'm doing ... EDIT: I got "Replace" from Quick Actions to work though (ie. replacing commas to semicolons)

Appending to existing genres

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ohrenkino July 14, 2022, 7:14am 2

See this thread on how to remove duplicates from a list: