-Brading Software Message Board
+--Forum: Mp3/Tag Studio Support and Bug Reports
+---Topic: Parsing Comment in IDv1 and move to Idv2 started by Vipul
Posted by: Vipul on April 14 2003,04:46
Hi Magnus,
First of all let me tell you that I was HIGHLY impressed to see your software MP3/Tag studio. I was looking for good Mp3 tagger since ages. I tried so many professional products also. But I must say your software is much more contended than any of them. You have really done a very good work, hats off to you.
Seeing the power of your product, I could dare to ask you following question. Here is my problem.
Since long time back, I was using a Mp3 Tagger, which had support only for IDv1. So in the "Comment" section of IDv1 i used to provide the information of Lyricist and Composer in following format -
"M:COMPOSER;L:LYRICIST"
I've thousands of Mp3s like that. Now I would like to move this information to the real places they belong to in IDv2 tag i.e Composer and Lyricist. I know using your tool I can send whole comment from IDv1 to any field in IDv2. But can I parse the comment and send info at two places.
Thanks in advance,
Vipul
Posted by: Magnus Brading on April 14 2003,13:13
Sure, you can do it e.g. like this:
1.
Create a list (with the "create custom lists" tool in the "file tools" tool set), using the following template:
---------------------CODE SAMPLE-------------------
<Filepath absolute>; <Comment>
---------------------CODE SAMPLE-------------------
2.
Import this list data back into the tag, using the "Tag/rename from list" tool, with the following (advanced mode) template (tip: right click the template box in advanced mode to see all possible target tag fields):
---------------------CODE SAMPLE-------------------
<Target file>; M:<V2_TCOM>;L:<V2_TEXT>
---------------------CODE SAMPLE-------------------
Bam, done.
If you want to, you can now clear all the comment fields with the "mass clean up tags" tool.
Also, if not all the tags have this data in their comment field, you can simply use the filter to only process the correct ones and leave the other ones alone, e.g. by using the following (advanced mode) filter string on the comment field: "M: and L:" (without the quotes).
Well, I hope this made you like the program even more.
PS.
Please don't submit the same post to more than one forum (cross-posting).
Posted by: Vipul on April 14 2003,18:32
It worked. Thanks a lot.
Actually that made me realize that I can now do ANYTHING with the tags I want
Posted by: Fredrik Lovik on April 15 2003,13:00
You're right, Vipul. MP3/TS can do almost everything. Which ofcourse makes requesting new features a complete nightmare.
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