Comments on: Editing Media Tags from PowerShell http://HuddledMasses.org/editing-media-tags-from-powershell/ You can do more than breathe for free... Wed, 15 Oct 2008 02:07:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Zack http://HuddledMasses.org/editing-media-tags-from-powershell/#comment-151095 Zack Mon, 14 Apr 2008 01:17:38 +0000 http://HuddledMasses.org/editing-media-tags-from-powershell/#comment-151095 I had a bunch of mp3 files that did not have the artist or song title marked on the file (correctly). All the file names came over CollectionTrack#-Artist-SongTile (eq: 001 - Led Zeppelin - Stairway To Heaven). Here is the code that I used to label this files correctly. This would have a problem for files that have "-" somewhere in the artist or song title. But it worked well enough. [Reflection.Assembly]::Load("taglib-sharp, Version=2.0.3.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=db62eba44689b5b0") cd F:\Music\500Rock foreach ($f in dir) { $media = [TagLib.File]::Create("F:\Music\500Rock\" + $f.ToString()) $newName = $f.Name $splitName = $newName.Split("-") $i = 1 foreach($p in $splitName) { switch ($i) { 2{$media.Tag.Performers= $p.ToString()} 3{$media.Tag.Title= $p.ToString()} } $i++ } $media.Tag.Album = "" $media.Save() Rename-Item $f -NewName ($splitName[2].ToString()) } I had a bunch of mp3 files that did not have the artist or song title marked on the file (correctly). All the file names came over CollectionTrack#-Artist-SongTile (eq: 001 – Led Zeppelin – Stairway To Heaven). Here is the code that I used to label this files correctly. This would have a problem for files that have “-” somewhere in the artist or song title. But it worked well enough.

[Reflection.Assembly]::Load(“taglib-sharp, Version=2.0.3.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=db62eba44689b5b0”)
cd F:\Music\500Rock
foreach ($f in dir)
{
$media = [TagLib.File]::Create(“F:\Music\500Rock\” + $f.ToString())
$newName = $f.Name
$splitName = $newName.Split(”-”)

$i = 1

foreach($p in $splitName)
{
switch ($i)
{
2{$media.Tag.Performers= $p.ToString()}
3{$media.Tag.Title= $p.ToString()}
}
$i++
}
$media.Tag.Album = “”
$media.Save()
Rename-Item $f -NewName ($splitName2.ToString())
}

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