Request: Web Sources in Actions

General Discussion
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I love Mp3tag for it amazing capabilities :slight_smile: but there's one thing I would love to have:

I would like to use Web Sources in Actions and I'm thinking of this way:

In an Action I want to define which a Web Source (which I already added into the client)

  • the parameters I would like to pass for the search in the Web Source (e.g. %Artist% %Title%)
  • the parameters which information I would like to get (%Year%; %CoverArt%; %Genre%)
  • the parameters to which tag the retrieved information should be stored (%Year%; %CoverArt%; %Genre%)

For the case if multiple results are returned for one search, then there should be (hardcoded?) rules which apply - e.g. take the record with the oldest %Year%, etc.

This would help me a lot, since I would not have to use the Web Sources for each song manually :slight_smile:

What do you think about it?

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Actions work file by file.
You would have to enter the criteria for each file separately - or if they are stored in that action, it is just like the current behaviour of the web sources.

There are different web source scripts even for the same web source available that search the web source with different search parameters, you only have to select the correct one.

You can edit the web source scripts according to you your needs so that they return the required data.

All in all, I would say that most of the functions are already there.