

The Import tag fields action takes a source format string and imports tag fields using a specified pattern format string. You can use fixed text like folder.jpg and placeholders like %artist% and %album% in the format string. The Import Cover action imports the image specified by the absolute or relative filename and embeds it as cover art into the tag of the file. Learn more about format strings in Format Strings and Available Placeholders and scripting functions in Scripting Functions Import Cover This action can also be used to copy the content of one tag field to another tag field or to fill fields with fixed text serving as a kind of template. The Format tag field action fills fields or renames files based on other fields content or fixed text. The file extension is automatically appended based on the mimetype of the image. You can use fixed text like cover and placeholders like %artist% and %album% in the format string. The Export Cover action saves the embedded cover art to the relative or absolute filename specified by the format string. To convert these tags from a specific codepage to Unicode, select the appropriate tag field(s) and choose the codepage from the drop-down list. If you have problems displaying tags with characters from other charsets (like Cyrillic) in Mp3tag, the tags are probably stored in a system codepage instead of Unicode or ISO-8859-1. lower changes all characters to lower case.UPPER changes all characters to upper case.Mixed Case changes the first character of each word to upper case and all other characters to lower case.The Case conversion action allows for changing the upper and lower case of the selected field. Resizing the image keeps the aspect ratio, except if Crop to square is enabled. If the cover is smaller than the size provided, the size of the cover is not changed. size is the maximum width and height in pixels of the embedded cover image. You can choose between Original, JPEG, and PNG image formats where Original just keeps the image format of the embedded cover. The Adjust Cover action allows for resizing and/or changing the image format of embedded cover art. Learn more about format strings in Format Strings and Available Placeholders and scripting functions in Scripting Functions Adjust Cover Most of the actions are also configured by a format string. _ALL - Both _TAG and _FILENAME (not _DIRECTORY)._DIRECTORY - The parent directory of the file.Many of the actions are configured with a field to operate on, e.g., ARTIST or TITLE.
#MP3TAG ACTIONS FOR MAC#
Mp3tag for Mac currently supports these action types: When you close the actions window via Apply, the selected action group or all action groups in the selected category are applied to the selected files and the changes are saved immediately. You can always duplicate groups and actions to create more complex groups or categories. Tip 2: Start with a simple action group for the task at hand. You can create multiple different action groups that have different purposes and use categories to combine different action groups into coherent sets. The actions in an action group are executed in the sequence they are listed.

When using Action Groups, you can create an action group and add one or many actions to the group. Tip 1: Use search as you type to make the Quick Actions feature even faster.

This action will be applied to the selected files and the changes are saved immediately. When using Quick Actions you can select one of the different available action types from the list. Action Groups serve as repeatable workflows in Mp3tag for Mac. The actions can be applied individually via Actions → Quick Actions ⌥⌘ 6 or be grouped into named and reusable Action Groups via Actions → Actions ⌘ 6. Mp3tag for Mac provides a variety of Actions, which can be used on filenames and tags. It can rename files based on the tag information, replace characters or words in tags and filenames, import/export tag information, create playlists and more. Mp3tag is a powerful and yet easy-to-use tool to edit metadata of common audio formats where it supports ID3v1, ID3v2.3, ID3v2.4, iTunes MP4, WMA, Vorbis Comments and APE Tags. Remove invalid characters from file name/file paths. You can provide additional pairs of from/to as parameters. If you're choosing a file name using the file open dialog, any characters that have special functionality in Mp3tag's scripting language are automatically escaped.Ĭommand: $replace (string,from,to) or $replace (string,from1,to1,from2,to2,) Example: $replace (%artist% - %album% - %track% - %title%,_,-) This example replaces all underscores with dashes. Example: to copy the content of the file lyrics.txt to the lyrics field, set the field to UNSYNCEDLYRICS and the format string to lyrics.txt.
