Action Manager

Introduction to the Action Manager

The Action Manager helps you to perform several tasks at once to your files using templates.
You will be create templates with the built-in template editor, which you will be 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 Tools | Actions | Edit Actions... from the main menu.

2. Click the   button to add a new action.

3. Select the desired action from list in the dialog that showed up after you clicked the Add... button. The available actions will be 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 the steps above to create multiple actions.

To edit a existing action in the list, click the Edit... button. The editing steps will be similar to step 3-5 above.
To remove a existing action from the list, select the action you would like to remove and click Remove.
To remove all actions from the list, click Clear.

To change the order of a specific action, select the action and then click either the Up 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 create your template, click the Run button to perform the selected actions on the selected files.

Available actions

There are ten different actions available. Each one of them will be described below:

• Add/Modify field... will change the value of a existing tag field or add this field if it previously did not exists 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 which tag field that should be removed from the Field list.

• Remove Tag will remove a entire tag of a specific type from the file.
  Select the tag you would like to remove by selecting the appropriate radio button.

• Remove All Tags will remove all tags (no matter which 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.

• Copy ID3v2 to ID3v1 will copy the tag contents from the ID3v2 tag to the ID3v1 tag. A 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 (=does not contain any tag data)

• Overwrite old contents will overwrite existing data.

• Copy ID3v1 to ID3v2 will copy the tag contents from the ID3v1 tag to the ID3v2 tag. A ID3v2 tag will be created it it previously did not exists.
  
  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 a 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 a 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