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CarlinSmithPostSeptember 11, 2025, 09:34
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I think I am overcomplicating a simple task. What is easiest method to choose some metadata tags and batch write them to a text file?

IE for all files in a batch process create a text file with Album Artist, some delimiter, then Track title.

2MR2PostSeptember 11, 2025, 10:33
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I'm missing some information. One line per file? No association to the file? Please send me one or two sample text lines.

That being said, there are numerous ways to do this. If all required info in in fields, simple create an export set and then a one line action which creates a Standalone track database via Create Track Database statement. Configure it to produce a TSV file and you'll have simple text file with a tab delimiter .... one row per file.

You can also use a Write Text File writing whatever you want and specifying append to file.

Or ... in the batch action you can call the resource action Generic Text Exporter and append the results to a text file.

CarlinSmithPostSeptember 11, 2025, 10:42
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Sure example would be:

Adele,Strangers By Nature
Adele,Easy On Me

One line per track title.

CarlinSmithPostSeptember 11, 2025, 11:23
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I was able to follow your suggestion creating an export set plus a single action. My next step is to sort the output on Album Artist (first field in my file)

2MR2PostSeptember 11, 2025, 11:30
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You're fast 🙂

I just modified my sample to sort.

Download: https://2manyrobots.com/actions/Batch-Export-Fields-to-Text-File.zip

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