I am successfully exporting my collection details to csv and can bring it into excel. I use | as a deliminator. (The default ; didn't work because too many titles have that too). Some of my tags have multiple entries, typically genre, and use // as separator for them. The exported file seems to drop anything after // in genre so I only get the first genre item in the csv
Hi thanks for that.... looks I need help for the help files!! I have no idea what that all means. It is fun learning though
The more I use mp3tag the more I am impressed with it. You can do just about anything but it takes quite a bit learning for a novice and much testing to figure it out.
Thanks, I think that has pointed me in the right direction
When you are exporting your tags, you are using an export script.
Open that script and replace all instances of %genre% with $meta(genre)
You have to do this with all tag fields where you have multivalue tags.
I had found the export scripts and made a simple change. I changed the default delimiter and saved it as a new script but I must admit to being a bit clueless as to how they worked. Is there a help section to explain how the looping part works? I didn't see it in 'scripting' help section?
would write %albumartist%;%album%;%year% + linebreak for every new %album%. So it would skip all files with the same %album% value after writing the values of the first file.
would write %albumartist%;%album%;%year% + linebreak for every new %album%. So it would skip all files with the same %album% value after writing the values of the first file.
Thanks, I now have it working
eg
FLAC tag genre like this:
R&B\\Soundtrack\\Rock
Replaced %genre% with $meta_sep(genre,\\) in csv export script
would write %albumartist%;%album%;%year% + linebreak for every new %album%. So it would skip all files with the same %album% value after writing the values of the first file.
Again very useful info. I was having to use Excel Office 2007 and the 'remove duplicates' function to create a simple list of albums and their genres.