Hello! Hopefully I’m posting this into the right place. I’m new.
So I’m in the process of switching my music-listening from iTunes (Apple Music, whatever) to Plex and PlexAmp. I’m being a good boy and going through my entire music library, using Picard and MP3Tag to make sure all my tags are correct, everything has album art, etc. I’m changing some of the tags Picard suggests to make things work better for me locally (mostly I like to use my own genres for some types of music in my collection, like cover songs and James Bond music.) As I tag all my music, I’m wondering if something might be possible. I have a decent amount of Japanese music: pop, soundtracks, etc. When I drop a Japanese album into Picard, it frequently pulls up tags in the native Japanese (kanji, katakana, etc) whereas I frequently already have my music tagged in English. I can’t read Japanese, but I thought it might be nice to keep that information in case I need to google the stuff later or discuss a track with a Japanese friend or something. What I’ve been doing by hand is copying the English names from the “Original Value” column in Picard, clicking the name in the “New Value” column so that the cursor is sitting at the very beginning of the Japanese name, and pasting in the English name. Then I have a track that has both the English and the Japanese in the title of the track. As I say, I’ve been doing this by hand. I know there’s some level of scripting available in both Picard and MP3Tag. I’m wondering if it’s possible to write a script that I could apply on a track-by-track basis, that would copy the song title from my original tags, and combine them with the suggested tag that MusicBrainz is giving me. If it is possible, how might I go about trying to learn how to do this (or could somebody help me with it?)
Thank you very much!