OK! Now we're cookin' with fire!
Followed your gracious instructions and set up the start of one that I will continue to work on.
Originally, I thought it batched several instructions
within a single preset. It turns out it's just the opposite.
It batches
several separates as one (who knew? Not me!
). Anyway, I tested it out and it works swimmingly.
Thanks again! Mucho Apreciated!!!
btw, The toolbar button option is really a menu item that is button-like. Is there a way to get it to show as it's own button/icon next
to the add-on/preset menu buttons? I associated an icon with it.
Also, is it possible, using the same or a similar method as employed in the above example, to batch together presets that are different (not based on the same
core preset)?
Now its not so swimmingly
Addendum:
1.) I got the icon button to show on the toolbar for the Clear Field batch. However, in button/icon form, it only performs the function of the first preset in the batch
.
It works fine on the menu. What is going on?
2.) When I try to add Lyricist to the
clear batch it says that it already exists, but the preset it points to is about Lyrics
not Lyricist and its
find mask is
significantly different than the
clear field one. It points to,
Clear Lyrics greater than x line(s) but less than y lines.... It asks me if I want to modify this.
I say no, thinking it will still add what I want to the
clear field batch without modifying the other one it points to, but it does not add it
. What to do?
3.) I added
clear rating to the batch. When the batch is executed, it has an error/problem if rating is originally "-1" (unknown). It asks me,
ok - abort - retry - ignore - ignore to all. When I choose
ignore to all it does not work. I have to
ignore for each track
. For other fields that are
already empy and don't use a number value, they reclear just fine. Is there a way to get
empty fields with values to do that without a hiccup in the batch
process? It may do this if there is any value in the field. I haven't tried anything else with rating yet. I'll test and edit back here. [EDIT] Yes, the error occurs for all
ratings values. Error shows a value of -1 for unknown, 5 for 0, 20 for 1 star, 40 for 2 star, etc.. Anyway, natively in MM (properties) if tracks are selected with unknown
track ratings and check box is selected for unknown (not that you would bother checking it if all tracks were unknown, and that's what you wanted, but still), it just seems
to skip over (no hiccup). If tracks are selected with
various ratings, including some unknown, it also just seems to skip over (no hiccup) the unknowns and clear the rated ones if box is checked for unkown.
It's not a
batch issue either. For rating preset, I toggled the batch off and renamed the preset menu to single it out, but I got the same error/result.