Hi,

Having searched the resources, I can't find Merge Mood into Genre. The closest result being Sort, Merge and Prioritize Genres. Merge Mood into Genre isn't on the current depreciated list, so is it long gone?

Ultimately, I want to merge Mood into Genre with any duplicate words removed. For example:
"Genre = Techno | Mood = Techno, Electro" becomes
"Genre = Techno, Electro"

Though I've tried to create a single action to fix genres the way I want them, I just couldn't get it to work. So instead, I've broken it down into steps

1) Firstly, process my whole library to clear any Mood fields that match Genre. The only way I could get this to work was to use Force Grouped Execution. Here's what I did...

Of course, this will only remove exact matching fields. But it's a step in the right direction.

2) I have lots of Genres in a format I used to use with Serato. I now wish to reformat them into comma delimited strings. For example:
"Genre = Techno [Detroit]" becomes
"Genre = Techno, Detroit"
"Genre = House (Acid)" becomes
"Genre = House, Acid"

Based on your examples for "Untitled Titles", this seems to handle my needs well...

I tried the Remove/Insert function to remove trailing "]" and ")", but using 'From: the end' indexed to "0" didn't work, so I reverted to a simple find/replace "".

So far, so good! But...

Before I run step 2 on anything more than test files, I need to understand how the resulting Genre fields will impact on step 3... Merge Mood into Genre (if I can either get the original resourced action, or a new one can be created from scratch)

Step 2 as it stands will result in a lot of files with similar Genre/Mood combinations as this:
"Genre = House, Deep | Mood = Deep House"
Which, if step 3 were to be a straight-up Append function, will result in
"Genre = House, Deep, Deep House"

Really undesirable!

Could step 3 be achieved by editing Sort, Merge and Prioritize Genres to run on a per file basis; removing duplicate words and, rather than prioritising genres, sorting the 'list' alphabetically? - I figure a sort alpha list should reduce the overall number of genre permutations in my iTunes library as I will treat these native Genres as basic playlists

My use case is the same as in this thread, so ultimately, I'd like to set this merge and sort into a post-Discogs import action, if possible.

Thanks

Yup. I think I've cracked it!!!

Becomes

And... releases that I've already scanned through and assigned genres I want for each track... will now collate all Genres and Moods for each file in the folder into the Mood field

Which, although pretty useless for iTunes and Traktor, etc. will still be useful for beaTunes, which I use for compiling playlists.

The Compare Field Across Files statement can be used to do a loose comparison of fields across files which I think is what you want. You can alternately build a list from the Genre field and check if the number of items is 1.

The Batch Processor only automatically generates a single log file ... however you can manually write as many files as you wish from inside the action. You could simply write the folder path to the files followed by a newline character. Either retain the lists in memory and write them when the batch process finishes or write/append to each file as required.

It's difficult for me to evaluate the action to see how 'safe' it is from a screenshot ... especially with the flashing ads on the page. 🙂

If you want export the action from the Action Manager (right click on the action then Export) and send it to me. If there are disjoint actions simply select them all. The export process will automatically include everything referenced in an action including other actions. I'll be happy to have a look and check if it's safe. If you want to do so, send the action to support@2manyrobots.com.

I'll know more when I get the 'real' action. However .... line 4, 8 and 12 have issues. They completely negate the test immediately before them as they are setting (SET) the test results. I assume that you want them to be ORs.

Quote from 2MR2 on January 18, 2021, 13:32

I'll know more when I get the 'real' action. However .... line 4, 8 and 12 have issues. They completely negate the test immediately before them as they are setting (SET) the test results. I assume that you want them to be ORs.

Oh, yes! That makes sense 🙂