# Manipulating scanned results

**URL:** <https://community.metabrainz.org/t/manipulating-scanned-results/434899>\
**Category:** MusicBrainz Picard\
**Created:** [July 9, 2019, 7:28pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/manipulating-scanned-results/434899 "2019-07-09T19:28:53Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 10, 2019, 8:15pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/manipulating-scanned-results/434899/6 "2019-07-10T20:15:37Z")

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So here we go, hacked together a quick plugin and packaged it for Windows 😃

~~If you are using Windows you can download the plugin at [https://keybase.pub/phwolfer/picard-plugins/opencc-windows.zip](https://keybase.pub/phwolfer/picard-plugins/opencc-windows.zip) . Extract the ZIP file and place the `opencc` folder in your Picard plugins folder. You can find the plugin folder by opening Options \> Plugins and clicking on “Open plugin folder”.~~

~~**NOTE:** Installing this plugin as ZIP file won’t work, you have to extract it. Otherwise the included opencc.dll won’t get found.~~

UPDATE: Fixed it, things got easier. Download the ZIP file from [https://keybase.pub/phwolfer/picard-plugins/opencc.zip](https://keybase.pub/phwolfer/picard-plugins/opencc.zip) , then open Picard Options \> Plugins, click on “Install plugin…” and select the downloaded `opencc.zip`. This should install and activate the plugin “Chinese script conversion”.

~~Start (or restart) Picard.~~ The plugin should now show up in Options \> Plugins. Activate it. Once activated you can right click on any albums, tracks or files and choose Plugins -\> Convert to … Chinese.

Let me know if this plugin works for you. If something in the conversion doesn’t work as expected it can probably be changed. OpenCC provides various configurations for the conversion, including conversion to and from Hong Kong and Taiwan variants of the traditional script. For now I have used what is labeled simply “Traditional Chinese to Simplified Chinese” and “Simplified Chinese to Traditional Chinese” conversion.

If you are not using Windows but Linux install the plugin exactly as above. But you need to separately install opencc.

If you are using macOS you are out of luck for now ☹

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