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How to automatically fix MP3 Genre and Year tags?

All the Artist/Album tags on my MP3 collection are fine, but the Genres and Year tags are all horrendous. For Genre, songs just seem to be all over the place. It classifies Iron Maiden is Alternative,...
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Windows 7 x64 explorer and MS Office 2010 "recent authors" issue

How to remove recent authors entries that show up as soon as you start typing in windows explorer on .docx files?
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Can Google Chrome use bookmark tags?

For the fact that if there is a page about an Apple technology, I don't know whether to file in in my bookmark folder of "Investing", "Apple", or "Tech". So it seems ...
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I can't tag my AAC files with meta-data; what can I do instead?

I have an AAC file which I want to tag with information (artist, title, track number, album title etc.) ; unfortunately - it seems AAC does not support most of these tags, and tagger apps refuse to ...
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How To Add Tags For Text Files In Windows 10

Is there a way to allow tagging of text files in Windows 10? I'm looking to filter text files in files explorer using tags. By default you can do it only with certain file types such as images, docs, ...
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Is there a way to add searchable tags to individual pages of a PDF?

Similar to the way Youtube videos are tagged, I would like to be add tags to individual pages in a PDF based on what they're about. Ideally it would work so that if I tag a page "apple orange banana ...
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Why can't I edit audio file proprieties?

So I just downloaded a song and it works just fine, the pc can open and play it. But it doesn't let me edit the details like "Artist" or "Album" and it's blank. And if I use and ...
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Is there a command line or scripting interface for KDE Baloo's file tagging?

KDE's Baloo allows to tag files by adding an extended file system attribute on the file system level (where supported), while keeping a separate index of all the tagged files. Searching within ...
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How can I export only the bookmarks under a particular tag in Firefox?

I need to share some bookmarks. I have given them all a different tag in Firefox [3.5.3] Now How can I export only the bookmarks under that tag so that they can be shared?
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Sort music files by disc number in Vista

I'm working under Vista and the problem is—I can see disc number of track in Winamp or other multimedia player, but I cannot sort files by disc number in Windows Explorer. I've scanned through the ...
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How to update a Azure resource tag value when there is a hyphen in its name?

I have written a PowerShell script to update the Tag values for specific tag names, now for all the tag names that do not have special characters in them (eg. department) this works just fine, but I ...
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Are there Thunderbird keyboard shortcuts for tags #10, #11, #12 etc?

In my Thunderbird setup I use over 20 tags. I can use keys 1-9 to apply one of the first nine tags to a message. Are there keyboard shortcuts for the 10th, 11th etc tags? Failing that, is there a way ...
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Creating a typical "tag" style for text in MS Word

In the example above, note the rounded corners and the spacing on each side of the words. How would one mimic this visual style for text in a Word document? If the rounded corners aren't possible, I'...
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Windows 10: A Hotkey for editing file tags

All I want is a keyboard shortcut to start editing a file's tags instead of going to the Details panel in properties.
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How to make custom tags valid on PHPStorm?

There are some valid tags <esi:include dca="esi" onerror="continue" src="{{ esi_bottom_url }}"/> in some HTML files but PHPStorm reports them as bugs. How to make ...
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Can I set a Thunderbird tag to be added for all new messages in a folder?

In Thunderbird I would like every message in folder X to have tag X when the message is added. It would allow me to synchronize Thunderbird tags with GMail labels. I tried to create a filter but ...
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Visual Studio Code shortcut to close html tag

Could you please help, is there any shortcut in Visual Studio Code to complete/close html tags? For example I edit a file: <div><p>Some text | <- cursor is here, I press a hotkey and ...
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Cant choose "tag" after Tag_Folder.bat

I found this great answer that shows how to add tags to folders on Windows 10 but unfortunately it does not work as expected. If I right-click in a folder I can enter a tag but the problem is that I ...
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Can't edit MP3 tags like artist or title

I try to edit the tags of MP3 files and I found that some of the file cannot be edited. Here's the procedure when I edit the information of the MP3 file: Right click the MP3 file in Windows Explorer ...
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how to get all the tags from headlines in a org-mode file

When I incrementally write up a org-mode file, I add tags to the current headline on the spur (instead of predefine it at the beginning of the file with +TAGS:). However, without predefining the tags ...
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What does number mean next to artist name in on-line music databases?

I am using MusicBrainz, Discogs and freedb through Mp3tag application for Windows for clearing up my .mp3 files library using these on-line databases as tags sources. Sometimes (approx. 3-5% of all ...
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Filter out nodes of an xml tree that have an empty tag, and some elements have line wraps sometimes

How to get only the nodes that do not have an empty <sometimes_empty_tag>? Taking just a snippet of an xml to play around with, the one to be dropped is the first of the nodes with its empty <...
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What's the deal with NTFS tags in windows 7

So back in the days of 'longhorn' there was this WinFS idea which was both cool looking and scary looking. Then it seemed to disappear, but we were told that many of the concepts would be rolled into ...
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Is there a way of searching Firefox bookmarks by multiple tags without going into the bookmarks menu?

For bookmarks I know we have two options: Option 1: Bookmarks Menu → drop-down bookmarks menu listing Option 2: Bookmarks Toolbar → one click access to bookmarks Is there some add-on/extension for ...
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How to add tags to a folder in windows 10

I know it is possible to add tags to specific files in a folder, but is it possible to add tags directly to folder? I have a ton of folders which I would like to sort based on tags.
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`ffprobe` is 12 times slower than `metaflac`. How to speed up `ffprobe`?

On a small FLAC folder of 1593 files, ffprobe takes over 12 times longer to run than metaflac. How to speed up the single-threaded performance of ffprobe? I tried to tell ffprobe to do the same and ...
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Can you use searchable "tags" in Excel?

I am have a list of business contacts in Excel, like a mini-CRM. One of the fields for each person is where I know them from. For most people, I just have one origin, but some people have multiple. ...
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Copy tags from mp3 to flac using kid3 and Dupeguru

I have a folder of mp3 files, and also one of flac files. I want the mp3 files to be replaced with the flac files, with the original tags of the mp3 files. Using dupeguru, I can pinpoint which flac ...
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"Universal Metadata" tagging for various file types

I'm trying to find some application that allows me to easily add/modify metadata for various files such as PDF, MKV, DOCX, MP3, PNG, JPG etc. All these types of files (and a lot more) support ...
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How do I tag someone in Outlook but have their email address put in the cc?

I know that if I use @John Smith into the body of an email, then Outlook will automatically put John Smith's email address in the To field of the email. How can I tag John Smith in the body of an ...
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Search for files with Tags that include a number within a range?

New here 👋🏼. I'm on macOS (Monterey). I've come up with a Keyboard Maestro macro that reads the ProjectData or MetaData of a Logic Pro project to find its tempo, then tags the project file itself ...
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Can we add tags in any spreadsheet software like we can in Notion?

I’m working on long tables (like a database or repository, no mathematical function) and I need to refer a few cells in another sheet And also use some tags for each row. I know in Notion, you can ...
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How to easily manage unique values for a column in Excel/Google sheets?

This feature is very common in web application but I could not find a similar solution in Excel. I manually enter metadata for different publication. One column is the publisher. I want to have a drop ...
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How can I use a set list of descriptors as "tags" for different items in Excel?

Apologies if something like this has already been answered - I'm relatively new to Excel and am still trying to figure out how everything works. Right now I have a portfolio of companies owned by a PE ...
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VLOOKUP Values not corresponding

I have an excel file that contains Olympic Data for 2008, 2012 & 2016. I would like to lookup the event of my dataset in sheet 1 to the table array in VLOOKUP sheet to determine whether the event ...
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Is it possible to edit tags with cmus?

Is it at all possible to edit tags for .ogg files with cmus?
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Tags entered with Shell script do not appear in Tags column

I downloaded the script into my Users Folder: cmd /c "start /min C:\Users\mattrupp.AGILENT\Documents\tagfolderScript\Tag_Folder.bat" I was able to Find the Right click menu "Tag Files&...
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Why is there no tags option in properties?

I want to edit a file's tags so I can organize them. All the tutorials I could find say I can tag files like this: But on my computer, it looks like this: How can I fix this?
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How to show the amout of numbers in a playlist in the details view in Windows Explorer?

Here's my problem. In mp3 files and other audio formats, when metadata is inserted, and you open Windows Explorer and set the view to Details, you can see the information for each track. I'm using ...
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How do I reorder 'tags' in Thunderbird?

I'm putting this here for others to find since it has been bugging me for years and I've only just now found a workable answer that isn't a plugin which stops working when Thunderbird is upgraded. ...
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Tagging strategy on Mac OSX

I want to use tagging on MacOSX, mostly for pictures, but may extend it to other files too. Caveat: it must be compatible with Leopard, because most of my files are on an old (pre-intel) iMac. I have ...
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Is there any way to search for tags in Mozilla Thunderbird?

I'm currently running the Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 desktop email client. In Thunderbird, if I type "linksys router" in the search box, it will find every message in the current folder containing ...
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How can I configure Windows Media Player to manage my music library?

I'm currently using Windows Media Player 12 on Windows 7 Ultimate. I was using iTunes, but since I got my Android phone, I got rid of my iPod and uninstalled iTunes. I'm trying to do things like keep ...
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Windows Explorer: group by tags, but show subfolders first?

I use tags for organizing my photos, specifically I sort photos by date and group by tag (ascending, so A at the top to Z at the bottom). However, when I apply this view to a photo folder, any ...
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In RecentX, do tags disappear after a file is moved?

I saw the program RecentX suggested in https://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/questions/73979/i-would-like-to-tag-documents-notes-and-search-tags-with-logical-and-and-or/76058#76058 So I tried it out....
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how to tag a folder in a hidden directory in OS X

In OS X is there a way to tag a folder inside of a hidden directory or tag the hidden directory itself? As a workaround I create aliases of those folders and place them somewhere visible and tag ...
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Windows 10, View a Library grouped by tags

Windows 10 File Explorer, behaves differently when grouping by tags than Windows 7. Windows 7 would show me all the contents in the subfolders of folders in the library, grouped. Windows 10 only shows ...
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Import/export or retrieve Thunderbird tags from IMAP server

My experience with tagging IMAP messages in Thunderbird is that those tags will be saved on the server (from what I read they as stored as IMAP keywords), so they are synced, but if you access the ...
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Docker: Is there a way to resolve the tags of the layer digests?

I want to check, which FROM docker layers where used. If you execute docker inspect you get the sha digest. But how can I resolve the digest into the docker labels? Especially, if I don't know, how ...
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Tags field not showing in Windows Explorer Details Pane when *null*

I want to add tags to some files as seamlessly as possible, without the "hassle"of opening context menu / properties / details. The Details Pane works perfectly... to edit the existing tags, because ...

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