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Plugins / Re: Additional Tagging and Reporting Tools

« on: December 08, 2017, 05:56:25 PM »

New to the forum, and I apologize if I'm asking something that has already been answered. I read thru the thread and search all the forums and can't seem to find the same issue described.

I'm in the process of importing music into MB, and when I have some music sitting in the INBOX I use the "Auto-Tag by Track" - "Identify and Update Tags". That's fine, but now I want to add/append a new genre to all the music in the INBOX.  Note: I want to retain the auto-tagged genres - do not want to replace what is already there.

for Example
STARTING POINT
file name      -  Artist   -  Title   -  Genre
123.mp3      -  Alpha   -  123    -  Vocal
Shout.mp3   -  Bravo   -  Shout -  Rock
ABD.mp3     -  Charlie  -  ABD   -  R&B
xyz.mp3      -  Delta     - Xyz     -  Pop; R&B

DESIRED STATE, where I want to add a new genre called NEW GENRE
file name      -  Artist   -  Title   -  Genre
123.mp3      -  Alpha   -  123    -  NEW GENRE; Vocal
Shout.mp3   -  Bravo   -  Shout -  NEW GENRE; Rock
ABD.mp3     -  Charlie  -  ABD   -  NEW GENRE; R&B
xyz.mp3      -  Delta     - Xyz     -  NEW GENRE; Pop; R&B

I've tried using the "Copy Tag" feature of the ADDITIONAL TAGGING AND REPORTING TOOLS plugin, configurations:
- using "Append source tag to the end..." -  I end up with ->  Vocal; NEW GENRE; Vocal    <--  Note that now there are 2 entries of original  Genre in the Genre field
- using "Add source Tag to the beginning..." -- same issue of duped genre entries

Let me know if I'm missing something.
I'll also try to post a picture so people can see what I'm trying to do with my specific example and configuration settings.

Thx