tag:help.beatunes.com,2009-07-24:/discussions/questions/4611-copy-move-tags-to-genres-grouping-comments-etcbeaTunes: Discussion 2018-01-07T12:06:12Ztag:help.beatunes.com,2009-07-24:Comment/370211622015-06-03T14:14:01Z2015-06-03T14:14:01ZCopy / Move "Tags" to Genres / Grouping / Comments etc.<div><p>Hey JB,</p>
<p>indeed "Tags" is not an ID3 field and therefore unsupported by
third party software.<br>
beaTunes stores these tags in its private database and (in case
embedding is <em>on</em> or you are using a <em>folder-based</em>
library) the files themselves. If the information is stored in mp3
files, beaTunes uses a TXXX frame (defined in <a href="http://id3.org/id3v2.4.0-frames">the spec</a>). TXXX frames are
often ignored by music software.</p>
<p>Are you into programming a bit? I'm asking, because you could
probably easily write a <a href="https://www.beatunes.com/en/beatlet-librarybatchaction.html">LibraryBatchAction</a>
that copies the tags to another field (I would use "Grouping" or
"Comments", but not "Genre"). Examples for other library batch
actions can be found at <a href="http://help.beatunes.com/search?q=LibraryBatchAction">http://help.beatunes.com/search?q=LibraryBatchAction</a></p>
<p>Cheers,</p>
<p>-hendrik</p></div>hendriktag:help.beatunes.com,2009-07-24:Comment/370211622015-06-04T18:27:20Z2015-06-04T18:27:20ZCopy / Move "Tags" to Genres / Grouping / Comments etc.<div><p>Hey Hendrik, thanks for the response. I'm not into programming
at all to be honest. I get the logic, but the code is beyond me.
Maybe you could write something for me? For a fee, of
course....</p>
<p>Out of interest, why would the Genre field not be appropriate?
I'm not interested in the Genre tags that come with my files as I
generally re-tag them anyway so they fit where I want to slot them
in the library. The fields are just titled as per the ID3 structure
right? Or does each field behave differently? I could group by
Genre in the Composer field if I wanted, right? Assuming my tagging
was always consistent?</p>
<p>jb</p></div>jbtag:help.beatunes.com,2009-07-24:Comment/370211622015-06-05T10:15:57Z2015-06-05T10:15:57ZCopy / Move "Tags" to Genres / Grouping / Comments etc.<div><p>Hey JB,</p>
<p>please find a <a href="https://www.beatunes.com/en/beatlet-librarybatchaction.html">LibraryBatchAction</a>
attached that will copy all your tags to the <em>grouping</em>
field.<br>
The beaTlet is plain text, so you can easily edit it with a text
editor.</p>
<p>To install, please see <a href="http://help.beatunes.com/kb/plugins/how-to-install-a-plugin">http://help.beatunes.com/kb/plugins/how-to-install-a-plugin</a></p>
<p>After the beaTunes restart you can find it under
<code>Tools</code> -> <code>Copy Tags to Grouping</code>.</p>
<blockquote>
<p>For a fee, of course....</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Definitely no fee necessary (this is trivial for someone who
knows programming and the APIs), but I always appreciate positive
propaganda! :-)</p>
<p>Regarding the <em>genre</em> field: Of course you could use
that, too. It's just my humble opinion, that it shouldn't be used
for this kind of stuff (and yes, grouping has a different meaning
in classical music as well...). As an aside, genre used to be
handled quite differently in older versions of the ID3
spec—in that sense it's not just another text field (known
genres used to be encoded as numbers).</p>
<p>Note that the attached code <strong>overwrites</strong>
everything in the <em>grouping</em> field for your whole library
and that there is no undo. So if you are unsure about things,
<em>make sure you have a backup!</em></p>
<p>Cheers,</p>
<p>-hendrik</p></div>hendriktag:help.beatunes.com,2009-07-24:Comment/370211622015-06-08T19:10:35Z2015-06-08T19:10:35ZCopy / Move "Tags" to Genres / Grouping / Comments etc.<div><p>Thank you Hendrik, this looks great. Let me have a go and come
back to you<br>
if I have any questions. Thanks very much for writing this up, it
will be<br>
really helpful for me.<br>
Jb</p></div>jbtag:help.beatunes.com,2009-07-24:Comment/370211622016-04-06T21:24:35Z2016-04-06T21:24:35ZCopy / Move "Tags" to Genres / Grouping / Comments etc.<div><p>Hi Hendrik,<br>
I hope you are well. Was just wondering if you be so kind as to
adapt this<br>
process a little so that I only copy the the tags to grouping for
the<br>
selected files. At the moment the process runs across all files in
the<br>
library, meaning any amendments I make to 'Grouping' in other
programmes<br>
(Serato, for example) are over-written when I tag a fresh batch of
tracks and the run the script.</p>
<p>Many thanks,<br>
jim</p></div>jbtag:help.beatunes.com,2009-07-24:Comment/370211622016-04-10T06:00:58Z2016-04-10T06:00:58ZCopy / Move "Tags" to Genres / Grouping / Comments etc.<div><p>Unfortunately, that would be a complete rewrite of the
script—something I can't do right now for lack of time.</p>
<p>Sorry.</p></div>hendrik