tag:help.beatunes.com,2009-07-24:/discussions/questions/2740-convert-categories-to-tagsbeaTunes: Discussion 2015-09-16T06:01:04Ztag:help.beatunes.com,2009-07-24:Comment/341383412014-08-14T08:12:10Z2014-08-21T10:45:46ZConvert Genres to Tags<div><p>Is it possible to convert iTunes categories to beaTunes tags
e.g.<br>
iTunes Categories: [Rock; Vocal; Female; Ballad] to 4 separate tags
"Rock" "Vocal" "Female" "Ballad"</p></div>SmittyDidITtag:help.beatunes.com,2009-07-24:Comment/341383412014-08-16T12:36:33Z2014-08-16T12:36:33ZConvert Genres to Tags<div><p>Hey,</p>
<p>I'm not quite sure what you are referring to with "iTunes
Categories". Where would I find those in iTunes? Screenshot?</p>
<p>Thanks,</p>
<p>-hendrik</p></div>hendriktag:help.beatunes.com,2009-07-24:Comment/341383412014-08-21T10:46:34Z2014-08-21T10:46:34ZConvert Genres to Tags<div><p>My mistake Hendrik...<br>
I meant Genres (updated the original posting title accordingly)</p>
<p>Please let me know if this clarifies the request.</p></div>SmittyDidITtag:help.beatunes.com,2009-07-24:Comment/341383412014-08-21T10:48:43Z2014-08-21T10:48:43ZConvert Genres to Tags<div><p>It sure does.<br>
Next question: Why would you want to do this?</p></div>hendriktag:help.beatunes.com,2009-07-24:Comment/341383412014-08-22T17:09:55Z2014-08-22T17:10:24ZConvert Genres to Tags<div><p>I have nearly 13k songs in my iTunes db, I wish Apple would have
implemented tagging, but unfortunately they did not.</p>
<p>Over the years I "tagged"all songs with the Genre field, it
works reasonably okay ... but unfortunately the genres are rigid in
a sense that if no standard is applied you will end up with a huge
amount of unique genre combinations with one or a few songs ... the
tagging mechanism in would probably work great, but I'm looking for
an automated way to convert all genre combinations to tags for 13k
songs and then have the flexibility of tags in producing
playlists.</p></div>SmittyDidITtag:help.beatunes.com,2009-07-24:Comment/341383412014-08-23T12:23:45Z2014-08-23T12:23:45ZConvert Genres to Tags<div><p>Hey,</p>
<p>you could write a simple <a href=
"http://www.beatunes.com/beatlet-librarybatchaction.html">library
batch action</a> beaTlet that does a one-time conversion job, to
fill the beaTunes tags field with your genre values.</p>
<p>Do you know your way around one of the supported scripting
language (JRuby, Groovy, Jython)?</p>
<p>Cheers,</p>
<p>-hendrik</p></div>hendriktag:help.beatunes.com,2009-07-24:Comment/341383412015-09-16T06:01:02Z2015-09-16T06:01:02ZConvert Genres to Tags<div><p>Hey Hendrik,</p>
<p>Apologies for the late reply... unfortunately I am not savvy on
scripting languages...</p>
<p>I'm still recording my huge collection of vinyl and cd.. and am
at 20k+ items...</p></div>SmittyDidIT