Hi. Thanks for providing the most useful metadata editor. I am however very fond of scripting jobs that can handle mass changes and I would very much appreciate it if mp3tag could get a command line api. The reason for this is that although I can load thousand of files into the editor and export t…

[image] oti: how can I make a qualified selection of files in mp3tag based on a set of rules and then copy tag data from this selection only to corresponding files with different music file format. The rules you wish to apply would best be used to filter your file selection. The filter is at …

There is a command line interface: [image] Command Line Interface – Mp3tag Documentation Overview on command-line parameters to be used with Mp3tag. Mp3tag is the universal Tag Editor. I doubt though, that Excel is much better to [image] oti: manipulate …

I have music files in several formats and the different formats may lack some tag information. In excel I can have functions that evaluates all formats of one song and fills out missing fields in one format from the data in the same field in a different format. For example, old ripped wav files have…

[image] oti: Also, I want to normalize text field casing (e.g. 'From me to you' -> 'From Me To You'). This is easily done in excel. Even more easily done with an action of the type "Case conversion" in MP3tag. Saves you the need export/import tag data. [image] oti: missing fields in one …

Thanks. It's obvious I need to learn more about what mp3tag can do. About copying tag data from files of one format to files of another format - how can I make a qualified selection of files in mp3tag based on a set of rules and then copy tag data from this selection only to corresponding files wit…

Is it possible to set up filtering to choose wav files with a given empty field and then list corresponding file of flac or mp3 together with the wav files? For the most part, this is what I want right now.

Thanks. I'm going afk now but I will do some testing of this later tonight. I haven't used filtering at all before so this will be a new experience with mp3tag.

It is a powerful tool. The details for how to use it are here. [image] Filter and Search – Mp3tag Documentation Documentation on Filter and Search and keywords to form complex filter expressions. Mp3tag is the universal Tag Editor.

[image] oti: how can I make a qualified selection of files in mp3tag based on a set of rules and then copy tag data from this selection only to corresponding files with different music file format WIthout deeper knowledge of what you have in the files this is hard to tell. In general, if you…

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There is a command line interface:

I doubt though, that Excel is much better to

What exactly are you doing in Excel that MP3tag cannot do?