Genre metadata not exporting

[ohrenkino]

@hitest

I guess I don't know what you mean. I have already sent an attachment of the page that display

I posted the steps to open the script already here:

@ohrenkino

A look at the code would be nice.
Use Ctrl-E, open the script that you used with the Edit button

and here:

@ohrenkino

An export script can be seen and edited after pressing Ctrl-E then select the export script and click on the edit button.

The extended tags dialogue can be opened with Alt-T in MP3tag and is not the properties dialogue from windows.

[hitest]

Oh ok, here is the tag list, ote that genre is in here

[ohrenkino]

You show the properties dialogue from windows but not the extended tags dialogue from MP3tag.

@ohrenkino

The extended tags dialogue can be opened with Alt-T in MP3tag and is not the properties dialogue from windows.

[hitest]

Sorry ignore that last reply. Here is my extended tags list. Note that genre is in here.

[ohrenkino]

I am looking for the number of Genre fields in a single file. If there is more than one, the statement in the export script has to be adapted.
Which is why I asked:

@ohrenkino

Please show us a screenshot of the extended tags dialogue of a single file where you do not get the genre.
Also, please show us the code of the script that you use.

and as I apparently have to say some things more than once:

@ohrenkino

The file list does not have anything to do with a chosen export script.

so there is no way around but to edit the export script.

[hitest]

ok , here is the extended tag info of a single file from my 5 file sample.

[ohrenkino]

Thank you.
It shows that there is only 1 field of the type GENRE and it is called GENRE. So it is enough to use %genre% in the script and not $meta_sep(genre,;)

Now the export script code (and not the output of the script) would help.

[hitest]

OK, step by step instructions on how to get this and send it please?

[ohrenkino]

See this post:

Genre metadata not exporting

I posted the steps to open the script already here: and here: The extended tags dialogue can be opened with Alt-T in MP3tag and is not the properties dialogue from windows.

Seriously: you have the problem, not me.
So far I see a lack of willing to co-operate. And that uses up my patience.

By the way: the solution can be seen in this post:

Genre metadata not exporting

The file list does not have anything to do with a chosen export script. An export script can be seen and edited after pressing Ctrl-E then select the export script and click on the edit button. e.g. $filename(csv,utf-16)Titel;Interpret;Album;Track;Jahr;Länge;Größe;Geändert;Pfad;Dateiname; $loop(%_filename_ext%)%title%;%artist%;%album%;%track%;%year%;%_length_seconds%;%_file_size%;%_file_mod_date%;%_folderpath%;%_filename_ext%; $loopend()Erstellt am %_date% mit %_app% - dem universellen Tag Ed…

[hitest]

I appreciate the help and I am trying to cooperate, just struggling with how to get you the i nformation you need to help me. Give me a minute to look through your instructions thanks

[hitest]

OK so after I press ctrl e I am presented with a number of different formats to export the file in, and there is an edit box there as well. That goves me the followikng file, is this what you are loking for?

[ohrenkino]

Yes.
Though you would seriously have to modify the file association of mte files with a plain text editor instead of a spreadsheet.

Now please compare the code from the already existing post

Genre metadata not exporting

The file list does not have anything to do with a chosen export script. An export script can be seen and edited after pressing Ctrl-E then select the export script and click on the edit button. e.g. $filename(csv,utf-16)Titel;Interpret;Album;Track;Jahr;Länge;Größe;Geändert;Pfad;Dateiname; $loop(%_filename_ext%)%title%;%artist%;%album%;%track%;%year%;%_length_seconds%;%_file_size%;%_file_mod_date%;%_folderpath%;%_filename_ext%; $loopend()Erstellt am %_date% mit %_app% - dem universellen Tag Ed…

(skip the language typcial parts)
and see that the first part resembles your script and the modified part has an added %gerne%; following %year%;.
This is the modification that you have to do in your script as well.
If you are keen on proper column headers in the spreadsheet afterwards, then you would have to adapt that text only line as well.

Do not forget to save that modified script,
Return to MP3tag and execute the export script and check whether you got the required data now.

[hitest]

Ok, yes, I modified my script and called it CSV-2. I used notepad to change the script and it works perfectly now. Thanks for all your help with this. One final question if I may, Is the initial export script something that is generated by my copy of Excel or something that the MP3tag program created? If it was the MP3 program that created it I can't help but wonder why they wouldn't have included Genre in the script? it seems like an obvious choice oif metadata to export. Anyways it doesn't matter, it works now and I am happy. Thanks again

[ohrenkino]

@hitest

If it was the MP3 program that created it

The script has not been "created" by MP3tag but has been included during the installation process as a template - as there are templates for other formats as well.
But e.g. for files in the XML format there is no template although that would also be an option for an output format.
The templates should show how text, variables and perhaps even scripting functions can be used in an export script to create a text output.
See also the documentation:

Exporting Tag and File Information – Mp3tag Documentation