I have a large number of files that have nothing present for the "year" tag. All the other tags are intact and I don't want to change them.
Is there an easy way to do this?
It seems I can get the year tag info from an online source, but I have to manually clear all the other tag info to prevent them from being altered. And even when I do that, some tags get screwed up (e.g. track number tags that are already correct get screwed up).
I wish I could find album date information online and update only the year tags. I need this done for many albums, so doing it completely manually is not something I would enjoy!
Am I to assume there is no better way to do this?
Well, I can think of different szenarios to work around the problems that might come up with 'auto-tagging' on nearly complete errorfree tagged files.
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Backup resp. save all tag content to text file, do auto-tag update, remove all bad tags, restore tags from text file.
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Copy all files to another folder or folder tree structure, do auto-tag update on the copies, save all good tag content (e. g. YEAR) to text file, switch back to original folder, tag original files with good tag content from textfile.
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The best solution would be, if such an 'auto-tag-by-source' dialog do provide one checkbox for each involved tag field to control how this tag field is allowed to be overwritten or not.
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unfortunately working with exports/text files/loops with no documentation is confusing as hell. i give up. thanks and sorry.