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Duplicate years in Metatags

I Have been on the search for the Perfect Audio Media player / Librarian for ages. I have purchased amongst others, Silverjuke, Media Monkey, Winamp Pro, plus tried many Freeware / Open source and I think Foobar is the nearest thing to what I want (Simple but sufficiently powerful) but I am having one of two issues.

My Problem is probably that my library has been attacked by so many different apps that this was bound to happen. I did google the problem, but don't see anything similar or in the FAQs

Most of my collection has two years in the date field and I have a huge collection (400Gb) so it's difficult to go through them all and change them. I do as I listen to them but it's a pain in the A$$.

Is there a utility or script that could eradicate this problem ?? 

Duplicate years in Metatags

Reply #1 –
i had the same problem (but luckily with less items...)

here's what i did:
autoplaylist > (%date% HAS ; ) AND (%date% HAS 2011)
change the date
autoplaylist > (%date% HAS ; ) AND (%date% HAS 2010)
change the date
rinse and repeat

it may not be the best solution, but it works

i would have loved to do this with regexp (would be convinient in other circumstances too), but i don't think there is anything like that in foobar

Duplicate years in Metatags

Reply #3 –
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You can fix this by retagging the files:

    Select all your files and open the Properties dialog.
    Select the date field, and choose Tools, Selection, Format from other fields.
    Set the format to: $meta(date,0)
    Verify that the date tags are properly filled now, and apply your changes


This is a Brilliant Program it did all 60 000 Tracks ,took 20 minutes but WOW it worked like a charm.

Thanks Reube and Frank Bicking

Wasted my Money on Media Monkey and all the others. Donation to Foobar coming up.

Duplicate years in Metatags

Reply #4 –
Quote from: ruebe on
it may not be the best solution

It’s not.

A more efficient solution was already linked to by Frank. Why not just use that?

As to your question about Autoplaylists (which are not command-lines), see this. In other words, you must have the Media Library configured first.

If the latter is not the case, and you aren’t wanting to make it so, you might try: sorting by the date field, visually picking out files with doubled values, and then altering the value accordingly. This might seem like ruebe’s solution on first glance, except that that depends on autoplaylists and therefore is both no better than this and needlessly more complex than Frank’s! Setting up the Media Library and using the latter will be the quickest method by far.
 

Duplicate years in Metatags

Reply #5 –
I did it and it worked like a Bomb, hence the Edit above. 

Frank You're a Genius, you saved me hours of work created by Media Monkey 

Donation time, I'm in Love with Foobar.