• Registered: 2007-07-09

Topic: Remove unwanted tags from tracks?

I would like to remove some unwanted tags like 'ASIN', 'catalognumber' or 'script'.
How can I
a) prevent that Picard 1.0 download such tags from MB?
b) prevent that Picard 1.0 write such tags to my tracks?

I tried the command
$unset(ASIN)
in the Tagger-script-Section, but without any visible success.

  • Registered: 2010-09-09

Re: Remove unwanted tags from tracks?

a) $unset(asin) - it seems that it's case-sensitive.

b) If the tags are already in your files, the only way (that I know of) to remove them with Picard is by turning on the "Clear existing tags" option. If they're not already in your files, then a) is enough to stop Picard from adding it.

3 Reply by InvisibleMan78 (edited by InvisibleMan78 2012-08-07 20:30:05)

  • Registered: 2007-07-09

Re: Remove unwanted tags from tracks?

You are right. The syntax seems to be case-sensitive.

Do you know if there is something between "Clear existing tags" (that clears really all tags) and the single $unset command?
Other tagger provide a command like "remove all tags, except...". This list would be much shorter and excludes automatically all known and unknown other tags. Or did you know about tags like 'involvedpeople' or 'notes'? .-)

  • Registered: 2010-12-17

Re: Remove unwanted tags from tracks?

Picard has the option to preserve certain tags, you can specify the list in the options.  In combination with "clear all tags" it sounds like this is what you want.

  • Registered: 2011-07-18

Re: Remove unwanted tags from tracks?

Do note that in Picard 1.0 (the current release) it's not possible to preserve artwork and neither is it possible to preserve tags that have capitals in their keyword (due to a bug that converts the keyword to lowercase)

  • Registered: 2007-07-09

Re: Remove unwanted tags from tracks?

Thanks, Hawke and Tantali!