Action Manager

The Action Manager enables you to perform several tasks at once on your files using templates.
You create templates with the built-in template editor, which you are able to reuse afterwards with a single mouse-click. There are several actions that can be performed in each template.

Using the Action Manager

To create a new template follow the steps below:

  1. Click on Advanced > Actions > Edit Actions... from the main menu.

  2. Click the Add... button to add a new action.

  3. Select the desired action from list in the dialog that is shown after you clicked the Add... button. The available actions are described below.

  4. Depending on the selected action, different options may need to be selected/changed. These are also described in detail below.

  5. When you have selected your action and possible properties, click OK.

  6. The action you just selected will now be visible in the list.

Repeat steps 2 - 5 above to create multiple actions.

To edit an existing action in the list, click the Edit... button. The editing steps are similar to steps 3 - 5 above.

To remove an existing action from the list, select the action you want to remove and click the Remove button.

To remove all actions from the list, click the Clear button.

To change the order of a specific action, select the action and then click either the Up arrow or Down arrow buttons.

To load a previously created template, click the Load... button.
To save the current template, click the Save... button.

When you have created your template, click the Run button to perform the selected actions on the selected files.

Available actions

There are ten different actions available. Each of them is described below:

  • Add/Modify field... will change the value of an existing tag field or add this field if it previously did not exist in the tag.
    Select the tag field you would like to add/change from the Field list and enter the value it should be set to in the Content text field.

  • Remove Field... removes a specific tag field from the tag.
    Select the tag field that you want to be removed from the Field list.

  • Remove Tags... will remove all the tags of a specific type from the file.
    Select the type of tags you you want to be remove by selecting the appropriate radio button.

  • Remove All Tags will remove all tags (no matter what tag type they are in)  from the selected file.

  • Format texts using capitalizer rules will format all text based content tag fields in the tag using the Word/Text Replacer rules defined in Helium Music Manager.

  • Switch tag fields will switch the contents in the two selected tag fields.
    Select the two tag fields you want to switch from the 'Switch' and 'With' Field lists.

  • Copy ID3v2 to ID3v1 will copy the tag contents from the ID3v2 tag to the ID3v1 tag. An ID3v1 tag will be created if it previously did not exist.

    There are two options available for this action:

    • Overwrite only empty fields will only copy contents if the target field is empty i.e. does not contain any tag data.

    • Overwrite old contents will overwrite existing data.

    Note: Copying ID3v1 tags to ID3v2 can lead to data loss (Unicode is not supported for ID3v1)

  • Copy ID3v1 to ID3v2 will copy the tag contents from the ID3v1 tag to the ID3v2 tag. An ID3v2 tag will be created it it previously did not exist.

    The same two options as for the Copy ID3v2 to ID3v1 action are also available for this action.

  • Copy tag fields will copy the contents from one tag field to another.
    Select the source and the target fields from the Copy and To lists.

  • Append to Field will append information to an existing field.
    There are two options available for this action:

    • Prefix will add the specified text before the current content

    • Suffix will add the specified text after the current content

  • Replace text in field will replace specific text in the specified field.
    There are three options available for this action:

    • Replace defines the text content that will be replaced

    • With defines the new text content that will replace the "replace" match

    • Case sensitive defines if the match should be case sensitive or not

  • Calculate BPM will calculate the BPM for the selected file and write the resulting value to the tag.

  • Calculate MusicBrainz PUID will calculate the MusicBrainz PUID for the selected file and write the resulting value to the tag.

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