EasyTAG-2.1.7-Delete hidden tags on saving?
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EasyTAG-2.1.7-Delete hidden tags on saving?
by Charles Lindsay-2
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Yo!
So I just upgraded to EasyTag 2.1.7 in Ubuntu 12.04 (from whatever version was in 10.04). I appreciate the new addition of the Album Artist field, but it brought up a question for me. I had previously used the version EasyTag in 10.04 to tag all my music, carefully deleting all the fields I didn't care about. When I fired up 2.1.7 though, the Album Artist field was already filled in for some music files but not for others (presumably depending on whatever software I'd used throughout the years to rip and encode my files). This leads me to the conclusion that EasyTag is simply ignoring and leaving intact any fields not being shown in the GUI. Is that the case? If so, is there a way to instruct EasyTag to delete all fields that it's not showing? I didn't see any options for that, or tools that would let me scrub files that way. The best I can determine, I'd first have to delete ALL the tags from my files, and then fill in the details again. This is less than ideal because deleting all tags also removes the data from the GUI so I would lose all the work I've already put in (if it just deleted the tags from the file but left the GUI fields filled in, I could at least simply hit delete tags and then save without losing my work). And I'm not even 100% sure that would do what I'm trying to do -- does deleting all tags from a file delete the tag container and all tags, or just clear the ones shown in the GUI? Anyway, I'm really glad to see EasyTag being maintained again. Thanks! Charles ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Easytag-mailing mailing list Easytag-mailing@... https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/easytag-mailing |
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Re: EasyTAG-2.1.7-Delete hidden tags on saving?
by Arnd-3
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Charles Lindsay <accounts@...> [Mon, 21 May 2012 11:40:15 -0700]
> This leads me to the conclusion that EasyTag is simply ignoring and > leaving intact any fields not being shown in the GUI. Is that the case? Yes. > If so, is there a way to instruct EasyTag to delete all fields that it's > not showing? I didn't see any options for that, or tools that would let > me scrub files that way. Unfortunately it's not possible from within EasyTag. You'd have to use other tools for that: One option specifically for FLAC is the CLI tool "metaflac". It's easy to use, check the man page, and is very effective to strip specific fields from many files as you can use wildcards. For example, this command strips the ENCODER field from all my ripped FLAC files: metaflac --remove-tag=ENCODER */*/*.flac A GUI option would be the tag editor Kid3 from KDE. It allows editing/ deleting of all tag fields. I agree that EasyTag would be even better if it could display/edit all existing fields, though from a past discussion I understood that this would require a major rewrite of the code. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Easytag-mailing mailing list Easytag-mailing@... https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/easytag-mailing |
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Re: EasyTAG-2.1.7-Delete hidden tags on saving?
by Charles Lindsay-2
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Ok, so I'm not just missing something at least.
Metaflac sounds like it could solve the problem for FLAC files, but unfortunatly most of my music is in MP3 format. Is there an analogue for MP3s that handles the different tag versions and peculiarities of that format? I haven't found anything in some brief searching, but another mailing list user pointed me to eyeD3 which might be able to get pretty close with a little python magic. I'll take a look at Kid3 -- thanks for the suggestion. Regarding the feature in EasyTag, I wouldn't even need the ability to display or edit the other tags, just remove ALL tags and then recreate the ones visible in the GUI. If I'm correct in understanding that the "remove all tags" action indeed does scrub the entire tag structure out of the file, then a second action like "remove all tags from file but leave GUI filled in" could do the same scrub but then let me save the tags that were previously read into the GUI right back out. This of course relies on "remove all tags" actually scrubbing all tags; if it only clears the GUI fields, then having my proposed second action wouldn't make things easier. If that sounds doable I'm happy to ticket it on github. Sound worth doing? Thanks for the help! Charles On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 4:42 AM, Arnd <ttaapp@...> wrote: Charles Lindsay <accounts@...> [Mon, 21 May 2012 11:40:15 -0700] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Easytag-mailing mailing list Easytag-mailing@... https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/easytag-mailing |
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Re: EasyTAG-2.1.7-Delete hidden tags on saving?
by Arnd-3
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Charles Lindsay <accounts@...> [Thu, 24 May 2012 16:24:40 -0700]
> Ok, so I'm not just missing something at least. > > Metaflac sounds like it could solve the problem for FLAC files, but > unfortunatly most of my music is in MP3 format. Is there an analogue > for MP3s that handles the different tag versions and peculiarities of > that format? I haven't found anything in some brief searching, but > another mailing list user pointed me to eyeD3 which might be able to get > pretty close with a little python magic. You could probably use Mutagen, also a Python module. It includes "mid3v2" as CLI frontend which is quite effective for mass edits [ http://code.google.com/p/mutagen/ ]. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Easytag-mailing mailing list Easytag-mailing@... https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/easytag-mailing |
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Re: EasyTAG-2.1.7-Delete hidden tags on saving?
by Charles Lindsay-2
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Thanks for your help, guys. I've ticketed this feature request here: <http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3530633&group_id=5216&atid=355216>.
On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 12:04 PM, Arnd <ttaapp@...> wrote: Charles Lindsay <accounts@...> [Thu, 24 May 2012 16:24:40 -0700] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Easytag-mailing mailing list Easytag-mailing@... https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/easytag-mailing |
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