In step 9 you can edit the future TAG data of your future cleaned-up files.
Now, as we arrived at step 9, you are the first time shown the
complete new TAG data and you also have the opportunity to manipulate it. In the large list (1) you are shown all TAG items (song, artist, album, year, comment and genre, furthermore composer, original
artist, publisher, copyright, conductor, encoded by and writer) like they will be written to the files of your new collection.
You can change any item through marking it with a left mouse button press
and then right-clicking on it. A pop up menu will open providing a couple of manipulation- and searching options.
When you want to quickly edit all selected TAG items then choose ‘edit [tag item]’
If wanting to change several equal tag items at once then choose ‘edit [tag item] (extended)’. If you select
the extended edit then the TAG Edit window will open providing further functions.
To search for a string in a special tag item you can use the search function (Find..., Find Next)
You can copy the ‘value’ of any TAG item into one of the both Toricxs-internal clipboards, and paste it at any
other location. There are two clipboards to make you able to easily swap the values of two TAG items.
If you want to have, for example, all files of a special
artist listed one after another then search for any file of that artist, mark it and then right click on it and choose ‘Collect Equal’. All files of that artist will be moved to the top of the large list.
‘Collect Including’ works in the same way, except that all files including the special artist name are listed, and not only those files whose artist name does exactly match the search-artist name to.
It is rather interesting how your files will look after
renaming (cleaning), if you want to check it out on any file (at best one that looks really sloppy at the moment) then drag this file over to the checking box (2). Toricxs will move this file to the top of the large
list and will mark it. By the way, the whole procedure also works for whole directories. Just drag a directory over to the box or choose ‘Import Directory Name’ from the box’s right-click menu.
To make you able to
systematically search and edit TAG data the Tools Window was implemented. You open it through a click on the related button (3).
Always remind: FIRST, you SEARCH files using a special search type. Matches
will be marked in the large list. THEN, you switch to EDIT mode through clicking on the related tab string header (‘edit selection’).
All files MARKED in the large list will be changed according to the ‘changing rules’ you specify.
Please note that Toricxs has some really handy ‘special searches’:
2 digit number search: allows you to find cd track numbers within song- and artist names (and the resting TAG items). These
numbers can be removed through switching to edit mode and pressing the provided ‘remove’-button
search for item smaller than 4 chars: song- and artist names that are 3 or less chars long are often crap (no real song- or
artist names). If you find such faulty items through the special search then edit them over the right-click menu (see above).
search for nothing: allows you to find any unset TAG item. Those items can be initialized manually (use the functions of the
right click menu therefore).
search for mp3/wma/wav extension: chose this and press ‘Search All’ to find TAG items that have ‘.mp3’, ‘.wma’ or ‘.wav’
(non-case sensitive) at their end. Switch to edit mode and press the remove-button to remove ‘.mp3’ etc. from all marked files at once.
search for file numeration: searches for ‘(#x)’ within the specified TAG item (x can go from 0 to 32767). If such an item was
found then switch to edit mode and press the remove-button.
When you think that the TAG data looks finally fine then continue to step 10.
