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[baldo]

Is there a programming/coding language that I can learn so that I can do search and edit the Tags of music files for MC?

I don't want to modify MC in any way, I leave that to the experts who have been doing it far longer and better than I ever could.  I want to modify the tags for the files. Something that I can already do manually but I have several thousand files to compare and edit so I need a systematic way of doing automatically.


So here is the problem I want to fix:

I have several thousand files lets say they are all in folder A.  I also have several thousand files in folder B.

For the files in both folder A and folder B, I want to read some of the tags from folder B and assign those same tags to the files in folder A.

For files that are only in Folder B I want to assign one of the tags based upon other criteria from folder B or to manually edit that tag.

If the files are not in folder A and only in Folder B, to leave that file alone and do nothing to it.

I appreciate that there is going to be a coding learning curve involved here and I am happy with that as I am currently learning python and other languages just for my own interest.

Many thanks for your help in advance.

[zybex]

You can use MCWS to do that, with Python, C# or any other language. You can also find MCUtils in the forum - it's a set of python tools for MC that can read/write tags in bulk.

Assuming for sets of A and B files are imported into MC, you can also use some fields and expressions to accomplish what you need in steps. Start by creating a field to classify each file as "onlyA", "onlyB", "A+B".

[lepa]

You can also find MCUtils in the forum - it's a set of python tools for MC that can read/write tags in bulk.

Perl /nitpick

[zybex]

[baldo]

You can use MCWS to do that, with Python, C# or any other language. You can also find MCUtils in the forum - it's a set of python tools for MC that can read/write tags in bulk.

Assuming for sets of A and B files are imported into MC, you can also use some fields and expressions to accomplish what you need in steps. Start by creating a field to classify each file as "onlyA", "onlyB", "A+B".

That would be great if I can use Python to accomplish what I want to do.  That way I can actually my my Python learning to a real world issue that I personally have.

Can you refer me to MCWS please?  Where can I get more details on that. I have never heard of it or come across it here.

I can also take a look at MCUtils tools.

Many MANY thanks for this.