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[MGD_King]

Anyone know how to do a mass clean up of tags? Here's what I'm looking at- over the years of different versions of MC, my MP3's tags don't seem to be 'standardized', for example, the "Band" field has the Album name, not the actual Band or Artist name as I would suspect it to be.

So the question is what's the easiest way to clean up the "Band" field with what it should really be?

[fitbrit]

Two scenarios:

If the Band info is in another field:

Select the affected tracks.
Right click -> Library Tools
Move/Copy Fields (Allows you to copy from one field to another, or move it)

If the Band info is not tagged at all:

Do the above and move the Album info from the band field to the Album field to fix that first.
Then with the affected tracks selected, right click in the Band field and choose "Rename". Anything you type now will be entered into the Band field of all selected tracks.

[MGD_King]

Thanks fitbrit!! I didn't even know about the "Move / Copy Fields" thing! That's awesome!!!

[fitbrit]

You're welcome... and special as the first person I've successfully helped!

If Glynor is reading: Told you it'd happen one day. 

[glynor]

If Glynor is reading: Told you it'd happen one day. 

 

[Matt]

You can also move and copy fields using in-place-editing by entering an expression (like an Excel formula):

For example, edit "Artist" to:
=[Band]

To make a copy of the band.

You can do lots of more advanced things as well.

[tombert]

You can also move and copy fields using in-place-editing by entering an expression (like an Excel formula):

For example, edit "Artist" to:
=[Band]

To make a copy of the band.

You can do lots of more advanced things as well.

that sounds interesting to me too ...

[KingSparta]

yes but you still can not use it in Find And Replace

[hit_ny]

You can also move and copy fields using in-place-editing by entering an expression (like an Excel formula):

For example, edit "Artist" to:
=[Band]

To make a copy of the band.

You can do lots of more advanced things as well.

i was thinking of using this for cached fields, by placing =[field] in the calculated section of the cached field definition.

What i wanted to know is whether the referenced field *is* copied over to the cached field ?

Or does =[field] just act as a pointer to the referenced field ?
..in which case the cached field wont really be any faster for display.

Would save me the extra work of doing a library tools->move/copy fields from reference-->cached field.