-Brading Software Message Board
+--Forum: Mp3/Tag Studio Suggestions
+---Topic: Mass Clean up Tags - More fields suggestion started by DedTV
Posted by: DedTV on Jan. 16 2005,00:53
Would it be possible to have a setting in the "More Fields..." part of the program that would allow for deleting all extra frames *except* for the ones chosen from the drop downs?
For example I add Album covers to all my files for iTunes display but I have no use for any of the other fields under the More Fields options and would want to delete any that exist. Most likely the average person would only use a few of the fields at most so being able to choose which to keep and deleting the rest would be more convienent. A way to toggle between the two modes (Delete All Selected or Delete All BUT Selected) would be ideal.
Also, don't know if it's possible, but it'd be nice if it were possible to set custom Frames to be mass cleaned so we could get rid of things that show up as an unknown or unsupported frame type when browsing files. Happens a lot with files that have been used with Music Match or bad tagging programs and cleaning them all out manually is a pain. Of course being able to clean out any but the selected frames as suggested above would work for my purposes but someone else might want to keep/set/clean a specific non-standard frame for some purpose.
Also would it be possible to add support for clearing/editing LYRICS3 frames? I hadn't even heard of them until a program I use got an update that showed them and I was amazed to find almost half my files had LYRICS3 tags in them and that they ranged all the way up to 100k in size. Since I don't use them it'd be nice to be able to mass clean them.
Posted by: Magnus Brading on Jan. 16 2005,10:46
To accomplish both these things, simply use the "Clear all additional ID3v2 fields" option of the Mass clean tool, in combination with the mass set tool. Creating a macro for it would make it even better.
And LYRICS3 are not ID3v2 frames (ID3v2 tags have their own lyrics frames), it is a separate tag format, and it is not supported, sorry.
Posted by: tHiNkBoNe on Mar. 31 2005,21:30
I understand Magnus' reluctance to add support for non-ID3 formats; MP3TS is, after all, an ID3 editor (the best there is imho)
However, I think this is a common requirement - the presence of non-ID3 tags (ie. APE and Lyrics) has forced me to acquire other tagging software just to remove them. 
Please consider this option in Mass Cleanup Tags though
-Add a feature that removes ALL non-audio tag frames. MP3TS can remain oblivious to their content - have options to:
-Preserve v1
-Preserve v2
-Preserve v1&v2
That allows MP3TS to cleanup *any* additional crap that may be in the file, while not having to code specifically for new formats...
Posted by: Magnus Brading on April 01 2005,21:54
Thanks for the suggestion, I'll think about it.
Posted by: tHiNkBoNe on April 11 2005,08:18
Man I really wish you could add this feature. I moderate several music related user groups and I wholeheartedly recommend MP3TS to the users. It's kinda tough though to say to them MP3TS is the best tagger there is; oh but you have to use MP3TAG or MP3BookHelper to do these other things, like remove lyrics and remove APE tags.
It's a BIG ommission, I don't really want to have a second tagger around to do this one thing.
tB
Posted by: DedTV on June 26 2005,02:54
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To accomplish both these things, simply use the "Clear all additional ID3v2 fields" option of the Mass clean tool, in combination with the mass set tool.
And LYRICS3 are not ID3v2 frames (ID3v2 tags have their own lyrics frames), it is a separate tag format, and it is not supported, sorry.
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Clean and Mass set would be fine for an album, but it's useless for an entire library. With hundreds of albums represented in my collection using Clean and Mass Set isn't at all viable.
I also maintain a professional sound file library in which many of the files have varying Copyright tags which *must* remain as they are to comply with licensing agreements and MP3TS is useless as it is in that case as well as I'd have to run through repeated cleaning sessions selecting group after group of secondary tags to get MP3TS to clean everything but the 3 secondary tags that need to remain. Even utilising macros, with tens of thousands of files that's a lot of time that could be saved with "Clean these tags/clean anything but these tags" toggle.
I've unfortunatly had to switch to other software for cleaning audio files
as I found myself too often needing to use other software to cover for the ommissions in the MP3TS feature set. I was already using other software for tagging since MP3TS doesn't have AMG or Amazon or similar functions to facilitate efficiently tagging and naming raw files. I keep coming back hoping MP3TS will catch up though because anything it does do, it always does it better.
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