Metadata Notebook Tab
This notebook tab will only be active if you have installed the optional dependencies for the metadata editing:
- Mutagen
- Pillow
With this you can edit the metadata of flacs, mp3s and mp4s.
In this notebook tab you will see a metadata entries list, to the right of it an image display and, to the left of that, buttons to apply the changes.
A list showing the metadata values that the selected items have. This list will show at the same time all the metadata of all the selected items.
It will do so showing a list of values separated by "; " when different items have different values for the same tag, and will strip repeating values (so if every item has the same value for the same tag it would only show one item).
You can then edit the values, but consider that the tags that have ";" in them won't change values when you apply them. This way you can change every item tag at the same with the same value, but won't affect tags that are different between items.
To apply multiple tags to the seleted items use "\;". This will seperate the tag into a list of tags and apply the list to the items (for example setting multiple genres to a song)
Leaving a tag blank will remove the tag altogether from the items, not just write an empty string in the tag.
There is a default list of entries that always appear, with: "title", "tracknumber", "artist", "album", "date" and "genre"; any other tags the items may have will automatically appear.
At the bottom of the "Metadata Entries List" you will see a "New Tag Name" followed by a text field and an "Add" button. Here you can write the name of a new tag and when hitting enter or clicking the "Add" button will add it to the list. Consider that flac items can have any tag name for their tags, but mp3s and mp4s have very specific names for the tags. If trying to add an invalid tag, when applying it it will give an error.
If the selected images have a metadata entry for an image it will show it, as long as it's the same image throughout all the selected items. Below the image it will display the resolution of the image, or if there is no image or the image is different between the selected items it will say so. At the top you can see a text field. Here you can write a full path to the image that you want to add to the selected items. Next to the text field you can see "X" button, clicking it will empty the text field. Leaving this field empty won't make any change. (Pro tip: you can find the image you want to use in the program itself and by right clicking on it you will get in the clipboard the full path, which you can then use and paste in the text field)
With this buttons you can apply the changes. There are three buttons:
- Apply Meta: apply only the changes made to the metadata list entries
- Apply Img: apply only the change of metadata image. will remove the image metadata if present and add the new one
- Apply All: apply both changes