Re: Undo tagging operations
Reply #44 – 2018-09-11 08:29:48
What about trying the following: - Use either the external tags component (in 0.9 version) or the M-TAGS component . - Use Windows' file versioning / file history on those external tags files. Dirty job if you just changed thousands, but ... They both seem to have the same purpose and the only difference is extension/format of output file(s). For instance, foo_external_tags is about 4-lines of code vs. foo_tags which is similar to html where a new line is another tag for each track all separated by braces. AFIK, none of them are generated automatically . Here's how you try them out by generating the respective component's output file:GENERATE AN "EXTERNAL TAG" OUTPUT (how to use foo_external_tags ) Selection of file(s) -> Context Menu Right-Click -> Tagging -> External Tags -> OK GENERATE AN "M-TAG" OUTPUT (how to use foo_tags ) Selection of file(s) -> Context Menu Right-Click -> Tagging -> Created m-TAGS file (to dir) -> OK From my initial test run I prefer the efficiency of M-tags because it looks like it's meant to be a single file for your whole entire library while External Tags is the same directory for each individual track as the track name using it's extension (which can get messy real quick ). Because none of them are generated automatically it's hard to know for sure if it's helpful and if i'm going to keep a backup of my generated output files for tags from either of the two components I think it's best to use M-Tags; aka, foo_tags for that matter. I think where M-Tags will fall short is when you change a filename but it's still in the same directory but unable to fetch any data because of the now ignored filename due to it changing. While External Tags; aka, foo_external_tags outputs to the same directory as the track so maybe you can tediously choose the file you want to copy tags from in the worst case scenario. My thoughts are still baffled on how to maintain between the two tag-backup components in cases of changing directory of file and/or changing name of file. Then when the worst has happened where you need to rely on these backups it's a very tedious process of manually doing so as per track! I would love to know if I'm not understanding this correctly