Hi everyone, I'm new, and I have a question about mp3tag.
I have to change (in many audio files) the word "saturday" with "Saturday" and I've found the way to do that, BUT:
Once I click on "OK" the software does everything automatically, without stopping every time it finds that word and without asking if I want to proceed.
Furthermore, at the end of the process, it says only how many files have been affected by that change, but it does not show which ones.
I doubt that.
The main feature in MP3tag is the batch processing which means once started the program treats all the selected files in one go.
I find this fairly convenient if you want to treat hundreds or even thousands of files and you do not have to acknowledge the action each time.
Also, you can define action groups that carry out a number of dedicated steps - a stop to acknowledge each step would be very inconvenient.
Why would you like to make MP3tag to stop for each match?
I would like to draw your attention to the filter
which can work as some kind of bulk search as it reduces the list of files to the ones that match the filter criteria. If you run the action on these files, you can be sure that only these ones will be treated and there should be no adverse side-effects.
I would like to stop every time because - sometimes - I have to change only some words and left unchanged others (sometimes I need "Saturday" and some other times "saturday": it depends on the context).
Furthermore, the changes I make involves many files, but the actual changes usually are 10-20 or a little more, and some clicks wouldn't bother me if I had full control on each file.
But thanks to your tip I took a look at the filter settings, and that feature sure will help me a lot!
What does this context look like?
If you start such a search - how do you know which files you have treated before and can be left alone and which you haven't?
Files were not mine: I got them and now I wish to make some changes, based on the title of each song: sometimes a word requires capital letter, and sometimes it does not: it depends on the whole phrase (e.g. Sun: when it refers to the star -> capital letter, when it is in a title which has figurative speech, "sun" is better).
I was not questioning the reasons that you wanted to use a different case on a file by file base.
I just wonder: if you get the next bunch of files, then you have to go through them again to get the case right.
Does your workflow include means to separate the new files from the old ones that you already treated - and that now show the sought after words in that mixture of cases?
You can filter for "sun" with
%title% HAS " sun "
and then you can scan through all the files and select those where you want to get the case change and run an action that sets the right case.
You sort of search first (filter in this case) and then treat only those files that need the change. A slightly different approach but it works.