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Support => Questions => Topic started by: asdasdasd223 on January 17, 2022, 04:48:05 PM
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I'm trying to remove "; Example" from "Test; Example" in the Genre tag. But when I use "Search and Replace" it says "No Matches Found". When I search for only "Example" then it finds everything. Why does ; screw it up?
I have Advanced Search and Replace but every preset is way too specific like "Remove EVERYTHING after and including <Custom Text 1>" which would mess up tags that have stuff after what I want to remove:
"Test; Example; I want to keep this part"
What else can I do?
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$Trim($Replace($Replace(<Genres>,; Example,),Example;,))
That's all that was needed I guess.
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I'm trying to remove "; Example" from "Test; Example" in the Genre tag. But when I use "Search and Replace" it says "No Matches Found". When I search for only "Example" then it finds everything. Why does ; screw it up?
The semicolon is the visual representation of the NULL character value in multi-value tags.
You don't have to include it in your searches, just remove "Example."
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The semicolon is the visual representation of the NULL character value in multi-value tags.
You don't have to include it in your searches, just remove "Example."
If the question is strictly about removing certain characters in tags, that would work.
But I am guessing the OP wants to remove a complete value in a multi-value tag.
As it happens I struggled with something like that myself recently, and I failed to find a good solution.
Suppose a track has values for the tag 'Keywords' such as: aaa, bbb and ccc, and you want to remove the bbb value.
By simply using text replace, you would get something like this:
(https://i.imgur.com/Xmyv5uj.png)
So this would probably need some regex magic.
I've tried a few solutions, using anchors for start/end etc., but none of them worked perfectly for all these examples.
So I am interested too if someone has the perfect solution.
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Hm, this seems to work:
(https://i.imgur.com/CJr2vca.png)
I would swear I tried something like this before and failed.
So anyone interested, try it out on several situations before you decide to use it on your valuable library.
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@hiccup, don't virtual tags work for the scenarios you described above? (using the replace function to replace a value in <keywords>)
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Suppose a track has values for the tag 'Keywords' such as: aaa, bbb and ccc, and you want to remove the bbb value.
By simply using text replace, you would get something like this:
(https://i.imgur.com/Xmyv5uj.png)
So this would probably need some regex magic.
Oh, ok, that makes. In that case...
search for:
replace with:
And check the regular expression box
@hiccup, don't virtual tags work for the scenarios you described above? (using the replace function to replace a value in <keywords>)
<Genre> only returns the first value. <Genres> returns all of them.
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<Genre> only returns the first value. <Genres> returns all of them.
Never had to use <Genres> before, so I didn't know about it. Thanks for letting me know that.
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@hiccup, don't virtual tags work for the scenarios you described above? (using the replace function to replace a value in <keywords>)
Yes, but that will only work for displaying purposes, using that virtual tag.
Using an AT&RT preset like this will remove the tag from the file/library, so it won't display anywhere any more.
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Yes, but that will only work for displaying purposes, using that virtual tag.
Using an AT&RT preset like this will remove the tag from the file/library, so it won't display anywhere any more.
Oh okay I see. Thanks. I've always preferred using virtual tags (I find it easier than using the regEx you mentioned) and then using the AT&RT to copy the virtual tag into whatever tag I was dealing with.
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(I find it easier than using the regEx you mentioned) and then using the AT&RT to copy the virtual tag into whatever tag I was dealing with.
To each his own, but if you use such a feature frequently it's much easier to have an ASR preset available for it.
You can then e.g. simply have a shortcut to open it.
I already have one for adding a specific tag to existing ones:
https://getmusicbee.com/forum/index.php?topic=35032.0
I'll add a download for this 'remove a tag' ASR preset to the above post at a later moment.
(after I am confident it indeed works well and is reliable)
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I'll add a download for this 'remove a tag' ASR preset to the above post at a later moment.
(after I am confident it indeed works well and is reliable)
After some more testing and some refinements I am now confident it works well.
The presets can be found and downloaded here:
https://getmusicbee.com/forum/index.php?topic=35032.msg191625#msg191625