Hi,

just wondered if it is possible to run external scripts. I would like to run a custom made application which either returns the musical key as a string or writes the tag itself.

/Artist - Title/
01_track1.mp3
02_track2.mp3
…

I would like to make an action which calls the custom script with the name of the mp3 which is currently being processed like this:
getkey "full_path_of_my_album/Artist - Title/01_track1.mp3"
It would be great if yate would wait for the script to finish and make the output of the script usable as a field (TKEY in this case).

These two functions could be called like this:

Run external script (with output) and
Run external script

Cheers,
Tim

Taking this as a challenge I've implemented a new action called 'Run External Script'. The function is supplied a script to run (typically a full path) and a parameter mode. The parameter mode can be 'none', 'path to file' or 'path to folder'. You can also specify that you want the script to run only once per set of files. Yate always waits for a script to terminate.

The output, if any, of the script is placed into the 'User Defined Work Field'. Many other script functions can manipulate the field, including Copy. I've also created a new function called Truncate which converts a field to the first non blank text line in the field and removes all line terminations.

It seems to work fine. For now I'm ignoring all errors that the script may generate including launching errors. On an error, the 'User Defined Work Field' will be set to the output at that point or empty.

How does it sound?

BTW directly writing the tag from the script is not a great idea because if you then saved the file in Yate you would get a 'file changed' notification and if you then went ahead and saved regardless you would lose the scripted update.

Thanks a lot for the great support here!

Your implementation sounds very good to me! Will the changes be in v2.1.2.2 then?