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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.

[baldo]

Hello?

[JimH]

MCWS is on the JRiver Devzone page on the wiki.

[Richard Martin]

Hello?

https://wiki.jriver.com/index.php/Web_Service_Interface

Do you really mean change the tags in rhe files or do you mean modify fields in the jriver library, confusingly also known as tags?

You could use MP3vTag https://www.mp3tag.de/en/ to update the tags in the files and then use jriver menu options to update the library from the files.