Does anyone know if you can place a button on the toolbar to run an action? Would be a nice feature...
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Yes, but currently you can't.
Yes, that would be a nice feature. It would also be nice to be able to add a button that executes the currently selected set of action groups so that the dialog box doesn't alway have to be opened to do this.
I hope to see a completely customizable toolbar some day.
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Of course it would be useful
I've made that request myself a couple of months ago
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Would be great!
Is this possible yet? OR is it possible to add something to the List Panel where I can perform a sort or script without having to go through the steps?
I don't know what you mean by that.
See the documentation on how to organize action groups:
I'd also look at setting up actions. Getting some actions created and mapped to keyboard shortcuts is a huge efficiency booster.
One quick note that's technically present but not explicitly called out in the documentation is that you can put the ampersand anywhere in your action name - it doesn't have to be before the first character. This lets you choose which character you want to use for a given action.
For example, I have an action to "Format Value "ALBUMARTIST": %artist% named as "A&rtist to Album Artist". This lets me hit Alt A R and all selected files will have the album artist filled in with the artist.
Another one I have is to embed the front cover named "Embed &Front Cover", which lets me use Alt A F. This lets me, in theory, embed each album's (previously downloaded) cover art for an artist's entire discography with three keystrokes.
There is an example and a tip in the documentation:
Pro tip : you can combine both tips, e.g.,
&Default values#Set &COMMENTto trigger the action group by pressing Alt+A plus D plus C.
Thanks, I'll take a look at this. I have used * as a wildcard for some thing I wanted to change, but it replaced everything with a star.
Great that MP3Tag has "Undo".
I look forward to testing your instructions.
If I understand correctly, this is like creating a macro (Excel/Word) that can be called upon to perform multiple actions with the click on a button or menu option?
If so, this is perfect for exactly what I want to do. Thanks!
Great point, yes. In my head I was explaining that the ampersand can be anywhere in the word, and is not constrained to be before the first character in any given word, but that's not what I actually said. Thank you for clarifying that.
Click on a button, not so much, at least in my relatively limited experience. Perform from a menu item, absolutely. From what I've seen, actions are incredibly powerful - you can perform multiple operations in a single action if you want, you can map them to Alt+A+[your desired key] shortcuts, and you can add submenus if you want to keep your menus visually organized and don't mind an extra keystroke or click. There are also action preset groups, which I haven't wrapped my head around yet.
Great explanation..thanks a bunch!
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Excellent idea