I recently ripped and FLACed about 180 CD's and I couldn't figure out why, but only the first word in the ID tag information was capitalized and the rest were in lower case. Then I realized I that I had the Box checked for that option in FLAC Frontend after I compressed all those CD's. Well, now I'm really stuck. I am a perfectionists with my music files and I need the first letter in every word capitalized in the metadata information. Is there a way to do this batch style? I checked into Foobar but it doens't have an option for batch editing ID tag information for just capitalizeing the first letter in every word. What can I do?

Thanks,
-Darin

In foobar2000, select all your files.
Bring up the properties dialog to see which tag field names are being used. Write them down.
Bring up the masstagger. Use $caps(%fieldname%) and overwrite the existing FIELDNAME contents. Repeat as neccessary.
Run the masstagger.

Not the best way, but it's doable.

Yeah. I made such a preset which capitalizes %album%, %artist% and %title%.
It's pretty handy. Most of the net-label releases on archive.org use all lower case letters and i keep retagging'em. But I suggest making use of $caps2() instead since it only changes lower case to uppercase for the first letters. $caps() also changes uppercase letters to lowercase letters - See Foobar's titleformat_help.html.

$caps(lala MUHA) -> Lala Muha
$caps2(lala MUHA) -> Lala MUHA


SebastianG

I must be doing something wrong, do I go into Masstagger>Edit Tags>Add>Format values from other fields?

Thanks,
-Darin

my preset looks like this:


The $if2() stuff prevents setting the field to "?" in case the field
hasn't been set yet. (sometimes %album% isn't set)


HTH,
SebastianG

are you useing the graphic user interface foobar 2000 or is there a different version? I am useing the GUI and I don't see those options anywhere.

Thanks,
-Darin

Wow...I finally got it! Thanks...this is going to save me alot of work.

-darin