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Standardize Capitalization of Tags (Album, Title, etc)

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I (like most of you) am a bit anal about my music collection. I prefer all my tags to follow proper capitalization rules. I've standardized all my album names to match case wise ("A Hard Day's Night", "Beatles for Sale"), but applying these same rules to the track titles is just not feasible to do manually. Some of my track titles have every word capitalized, others have no capitalization. It would be great if there could be an option to allow bliss to correct tag capitalization. It could have an option to follow standard title rules (something like http://grammartips.homestead.com/caps.html), and the option to capitalize every word, since I know others prefer that instead.

completed Dan Gravell responded ·

This is now released! http://www.blisshq.com/music-library-management-blog/2014/04/29/new-release-20140423-case-rules/index.html

23 comments

Dan Gravell

Yeah, I've thought this would be a good idea for a while. In fact this drives my wife mad - she will sometimes be scrolling through our music and then often asks "when are you going to do the capitalisation thing for bliss?" !

Shawn Kernen

I use Audiofiler first [http://home.fuse.net/honnert/AudioFiler/]. It has a tag fixer, smart capitalization, puts audio in proper folders and other functions. The only thing it was missing was an auto art finder; this is where BLISS comes in. It would be awesome if you could combine the two.

carlton

I have several albums that do not use Standardize Capitalization i.e. ‘the psychomodo’ by Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel. I believe that it was the artists’ intent to have it this way and therefore we shouldn’t change it. Surely music is about the creativeness not neat filing.

Dan Gravell

@carlton I agree, here's what I think on the subject: http://www.blisshq.com/music-library-management-blog/2012/06/06/five-factors-canonisation/index.html

This would be an optional rule of 'course!

bo.herrmannsen

if the wife is nagging then better do it... its one thing i would use too

bo.herrmannsen

we urgent need this... it's nagging me too :-D

Martyn

+3 Votes Here! :-)

Steve Parry

I hope this bubbles to the top of the list soon...I've delayed setting up playlists (for more than a year now!) because I don't want to set them up and then have to recreate them when the tracks are capitalised using this feature....!

Dan Gravell

@Steve - just pointing this out: this covers only tags... obviously there's a knock on effect of file paths because there's also no force case option for file organisation ( http://ideas.blisshq.com/forums/21939-bliss/suggestions/1825813-control-over-the-case-of-a-file-folder-name )

Steve Parry

Ahhh...I had assumed that changing the case would cause the file organisation rule to trigger...?

Dan Gravell

It will, I'm just saying that this rule relates to tags, and that's where you'll see the setting. The effect on file paths will be implicit, I guess.

Steve Parry

OK, thanks...so my comment is still valid. If were to run the mythical capitalisation rule it would break any existing playlists because the filenames will change. Guess I'll keep waiting and hoping!!!

Andy Fox

I would definitely like to see this as a feature. Right now, I'm using the Grammartron scripts in MP3Tag, and they work brilliantly. They implement rules very close to the ones at grammartips. I'd also like to propose that you include alternatives, such as all mixed case (first letter in every word is upper), all upper and all lower. You can check out Grammartron here: http://forums.mp3tag.de/index.php?showtopic=13185&hl=grammartron

Vincent Bourne

Be great to have this feature in Bliss. Historically I've used a script available here http://dougscripts.com/itunes/ for making similar changes using Applescript within iTunes.

Fred

So I assume this will also automagically get rid of the spaces before & after a tag ? :-)

Dan Gravell

With the underlying solution described in http://www.blisshq.com/music-library-management-blog/2014/03/11/work-in-progress-tag-capitalisation-regular-expressions/ it would be easy to do that. However I would build a user interface in front of this to make it easy to use; that might not include "trimming" tags in the first pass. Please add a new idea for that.

Daniela Haß

Good idea Drew and thank you for implementing Dan.
Unfortunately I'm not happy with such conversions: He's -> He'S and You're -> You'Re in "Title case (except for clos...).
Starting a capitalization after a ' when there was no space before should be deactivated.

Dan Gravell

Thanks for reporting Daniela, I'm looking to fix that for the next mid May beta.

Dan Gravell

Just to let you know Daniela, these are fixed for the next release. The beta is out next week, full release the week after. Let me know if you want to test the beta.

Thanks for reporting...

Edmond H. Pepper, P.E.

Works pretty well; I'd like to see an exception list that could be edited to add exceptions to the case rules so you don't get things like Ac/DC or Mdna, which should always be caps, regardless of title case rule...