I am soon to add a Squeezebox to the house. It will gather music from my QNAP NAS which is a synced copy from my iMac. However, the genres (and other things) were a mess in iTunes, so I consolidated them in iTunes into 5 or 6 genres.

I thought that the next sync between iMac and NAS would carry all the genre changes over. However it did not. In fact all the files id3 tags were unchanged, so I assume iTunes merely changed its database index file, leaving the original files and embedded id3 tags unchanged.

I have been looking for ways to change the id3 tags of the files on the NAS and found lots of software (Mac OSX). However, they all seem to do it file or folder at a time. With 15,000 songs+ and hundreds of folders this is not efficient.

In iTunes the job took 10 minutes as I could "select" all songs in one genre and edit them to be part of another genre in one action.

Is there an equivalent way of scanning over all the genres on the NAS (i.e. all the data of the files id3 info) and then operating on all of them at once?

Sorry for depth of question, but I know this forum to be the best place to ask such stuff....

Andrew

Last edited by AFdoughty; 2012-02-20 08:17.
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