Searching for software copy tag

MusicBrainz Picard
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Hi everyone,

I’m not sure in wich forum I should post this message, sorry if it’s misplaced.

I’m looking for some very simple software to rewrite tag. I try with picard + classic_extra but they are some bugs, and all I want are to copy 3 tag from one place to another. In fact work -> album, ensemble_names -> artists, conductors -> name. So do you know some very basic software ? Event a ruby gem would do (I’m not very good with python…) currently I find some ruby gem but mostly they are unable to manage correctly all the tag musicbrainz got.

Regards.

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You could try Mp3tag and the built-in convert function “Tag” → “Tag”.

This converter formats tag fields by other fields content, i.e., this converter can also be used for copying the content of one tag field to another tag field.

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On Linux Puddletag bears a passing likeness to mp3tag.

The most sincere form of flattery.

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Seems like this should be possible with some simple tagger scripting. Using $set() with the appropriate variables (e.g., $set(album,%work%) sets the %album% (release name) to the value of %work% (the work name)). There are probably some caveats involved, but maybe this is enough to get you started?

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I also use Mp3tag sometimes (e.g. for renames, but also other tasks) but keep in mind, it doesn’t support multiple values for (some/most/all?) tags on mp3 (and maybe other file formats), e.g. multiple artists or “album + compilation”.
(Maybe it’s possible with specific settings but it’s not working for me with my default settings.)

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Are you sure? I tought, this is just a matter of the used separator?

including the statement:

Please note that the real separator between multi-value fields is a binary 0. MP3tag uses the \\ to show (only show) that there are several fields of the same type, in the tag they are still separated by the binary 0.

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Yes and no.
As I wrote above: “Maybe it’s possible with specific settings but it’s not working for me with my default settings.”
I have the default settings in Picard and Mp3tag (if I’m right). I didn’t looked for it in detail.
It think it must also be differed between multiple values in one tag (with a separator) and multiple occurrences of a tag, as I had it e.g. with comment fields: I saw multiple occurrences of tags in the Tag View (Alt + T) but combined with “\” in the Tag Panel (Strg+Q).
For me it’s most important to work well in Kodi (as it does, out of Picard). I didn’t look so deep into the settings of Mp3tag. Maybe I’ll do it someday.

I just wanted so give a little “warning”, just to take a look on it. Maybe there are better settings that work well in combination of Picard, Mp3tag and Kodi (and also fulfilling the standards). I don’t know.

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