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A multi-platform app for writing metadata to digital comics
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Add function for bulk/batch editing #23

Open davide-romanini opened 9 years ago

davide-romanini commented 9 years ago

From MichaelR...@gmail.com on May 27, 2013 00:55:20

With some bad file names, I end up needing to either work completely manually; or start changing the files names in the finder. It would be a lot easier to edit the title/book field in a group of files at once. Same idea, renumbering some group with sequential numbers. The file names are usually in alpha order; but aren't parsed right (example, "3of4"). Instead of changing all the tags manually, I want to fix a batch, then re-try AutoTag

Original issue: http://code.google.com/p/comictagger/issues/detail?id=23

davide-romanini commented 9 years ago

From bevi...@gmail.com on July 08, 2013 17:48:08

I think this is a feature request, but I'm not sure I understand completely.

Currently with the Auto-tag dialog, you can specify that all selected files belong to the same series. But, if I understand what you are asking for, no, you can't currently re-number sequentially. This would be a nice feature, and would require to be able rearrange the items in the list, and specify the starting number.

I probably won't attack this anytime soon, though. In the meantime, there is a free app called "NameChanger" ( http://www.mrrsoftware.com/MRRSoftware/NameChanger.html ) that can rename with number sequencing.

Labels: -Type-Defect Type-Enhancement

davide-romanini commented 9 years ago

From MichaelR...@gmail.com on July 08, 2013 18:16:50

You have the right idea. I finished tagging my 5k+ comics, so now it's not a big deal. But there were times where I would have given my big toe to have this. The files were already in the right order in the list (they had some structured filenames, but not suitable for ComicTagger parsing).

davide-romanini commented 6 years ago

This is batch editing and I'll want it too.

jbigler commented 1 year ago

Calibre might provide some ideas on how to implement this in the GUI. Editing metadata with multiple books selected opens a separate UI from the one for individual books that allows clearing, ignoring, or bulk updating fields, auto-numbering series, etc.

mikaeltarquin commented 1 year ago

I would like to batch edit certain tags. For example, I would like to be able to select multiple files from the list on give them all the same Volume number. This is currently very time-consuming to do one by one (select, type in volume number, save, confirm save, select next and repeat).

lordwelch commented 1 year ago

Currently as a workaround you can use the CLI. comictagger -s -t CR -m "volume=3" *.cbz or if you are on windows comictagger -g -s -t CR -m "volume=3" *.cbz

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aaaaaprvdgrwwelt commented 1 year ago

I would also very much welcome this feature.

The Linux version of comictagger does not seem to accept arguments, but only launches the GUI. That's why I can't use the workaround, unfortunately.

lordwelch commented 1 year ago

@aaaaaprvdgrwwelt That may be a problem with the appimage I have not tested it. Use the zip file instead and it will work

aaaaaprvdgrwwelt commented 1 year ago

I had installed comictagger via PIP, which was version 1.5.5. The CLI did not work with it. Thanks to your tip, I now got the AppImage of 1.6.0a4 and it works perfectly.

My problem was that I have a series of comics that are listed on Comicvine with an issue number including spaces. I couldn't find a way to put this number in the filename so that it would be copied over completely.

Regardless, I would very much appreciate a batch edit function.

lordwelch commented 6 months ago

For anyone wanting to do manual bulk edits via the CLI comicbox is much better at it than ComicTagger.