Can't you do the same using properties, clearing the field and ticking the box?

Can someone explain me?
I had same question that Dreadlau had - not sure I see the benefit of this script (MM3 will process tracks in 'background' when update via properties). Limitation of this script is needing to know the field name as there is no drop down, limited to single field as compared to just using Properties where you can clear out multiple fields all at once (for example all 5 of the custom fields).trixmoto wrote:Yes you can, but this script will do it in the background so if you're clearing out a field (maybe a custom field because you've decided to use it for a different purpose) then you can run the script for your thousands and thousands of tracks without MM freezing whilst it does it. This is especially the case if you are writing to the tags as well. I'm not sure if this is still an issue in MM3 though.
It's also useful for clearing out fields (such as the Lyrics field) for which these is no checkbox and cannot be edited for multiple tracks at once.
Me toosommo wrote:I would just like to say a thank you trixmoto, for this addon
I've always thought this was a very good explanation:Can't you do the same using properties, clearing the field and ticking the box?
Can anyone explain why MediaMonkey has to behave the way it does? It kind of seems to throw, hurl, all the tracks at itself at once, causing it to go into seizure at the initial stage. It's fine once it gets going. If it gets going. Yet this script, and RegEx Find & Replace etc. can happily process thousands of tracks. It may be slower but it's effective.trixmoto wrote:Yes you can, but this script will do it in the background so if you're clearing out a field (maybe a custom field because you've decided to use it for a different purpose) then you can run the script for your thousands and thousands of tracks without MM freezing whilst it does it. This is especially the case if you are writing to the tags as well. I'm not sure if this is still an issue in MM3 though.
It's also useful for clearing out fields (such as the Lyrics field) for which these is no checkbox and cannot be edited for multiple tracks at once.
Wouldn't that be ZvezdanD's RegExp script?Peke wrote:I wonder is it possible to modify this script to clean same content from selected fields and all other fields that contain exact same info for example Clean "DJ Promo Track" from Encoder and also from Copyright and Comment with only one selection?
You are right, it was really slow. I have just fixed a small problem there and the action of updating properties in Library is much faster now (although it can still take some time to process on really large groups of tracks).If I want to lower the rating of 3000 tracks, I have to do 12 or so batches of 270-ish tracks. It's really annoying! Even then, MediaMonkey takes ages to get going and gives the impression that it is not happy at all until it finally unlocks and sets off tagging.