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Re: AW: Filter on Audio Language

Yeah, my answer was more towards original poster, because they were using "Original file name".

What you want is for MediaInfo to get expanded to support language tags inside header. Far as I know they already do, so perhaps MovingPictures needs to be expanded to support it more.

The problem then however is that 99% of audio tracks inside a mediafile is not tagged with a language code so it would make the entire system useless to begin with. However you can batch process your monster task with 3rd party tools. You can write an easy script that scans all your 900+ movies with the MediaInfo GUI app and stores info on each mediafile in a seperate text file. Then with another 3rd party tool you scan the contents of that text file for patterns to indicate if it has dual-audio and if you are lucky get correct tags on each of them regarding language, and then finally you can use another 3rd party tool to auto rename all your filenames to add the language tags you want to the filenames at the end, which you can then filter on.

The big problem with the above is that you will find out that the language tagging inside mediafile is wrong more often then right, so manually verifying each file (which you can then rename as well while you are at it) might still be the only solution, but YMMV.

Even if its not tagged correctly, at least you can use it to identify the non-English single track movies easy (to verify it is correct), and filter out the dual+ track movies. So it will reduce your manual task a lot either way.

MediaInfo GUI app can be used for step 1.
CygWin grep tool can be used to apply regular expression content scanning of the MediaInfo text results for step 2.
ReNamer can be used to bulk/mass-rename the files for step 3.

<blockquote data-quote="RoChess" data-source="post: 821209" data-attributes="member: 18896">Re: AW: Filter on Audio LanguageYeah, my answer was more towards original poster, because they were using &quot;Original file name&quot;.What you want is for MediaInfo to get expanded to support language tags inside header. Far as I know they already do, so perhaps MovingPictures needs to be expanded to support it more.The problem then however is that 99% of audio tracks inside a mediafile is not tagged with a language code so it would make the entire system useless to begin with. However you can batch process your monster task with 3rd party tools. You can write an easy script that scans all your 900+ movies with the MediaInfo GUI app and stores info on each mediafile in a seperate text file. Then with another 3rd party tool you scan the contents of that text file for patterns to indicate if it has dual-audio and if you are lucky get correct tags on each of them regarding language, and then finally you can use another 3rd party tool to auto rename all your filenames to add the language tags you want to the filenames at the end, which you can then filter on.The big problem with the above is that you will find out that the language tagging inside mediafile is wrong more often then right, so manually verifying each file (which you can then rename as well while you are at it) might still be the only solution, but YMMV.Even if its not tagged correctly, at least you can use it to identify the non-English single track movies easy (to verify it is correct), and filter out the dual+ track movies. So it will reduce your manual task a lot either way.MediaInfo GUI app can be used for step 1.CygWin grep tool can be used to apply regular expression content scanning of the MediaInfo text results for step 2.ReNamer can be used to bulk/mass-rename the files for step 3.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="RoChess, post: 821209, member: 18896"] [b]Re: AW: Filter on Audio Language[/b] Yeah, my answer was more towards original poster, because they were using "Original file name". What you want is for MediaInfo to get expanded to support language tags inside header. Far as I know they already do, so perhaps MovingPictures needs to be expanded to support it more. The problem then however is that 99% of audio tracks inside a mediafile is not tagged with a language code so it would make the entire system useless to begin with. However you can batch process your monster task with 3rd party tools. You can write an easy script that scans all your 900+ movies with the MediaInfo GUI app and stores info on each mediafile in a seperate text file. Then with another 3rd party tool you scan the contents of that text file for patterns to indicate if it has dual-audio and if you are lucky get correct tags on each of them regarding language, and then finally you can use another 3rd party tool to auto rename all your filenames to add the language tags you want to the filenames at the end, which you can then filter on. The big problem with the above is that you will find out that the language tagging inside mediafile is wrong more often then right, so manually verifying each file (which you can then rename as well while you are at it) might still be the only solution, but YMMV. Even if its not tagged correctly, at least you can use it to identify the non-English single track movies easy (to verify it is correct), and filter out the dual+ track movies. So it will reduce your manual task a lot either way. MediaInfo GUI app can be used for step 1. CygWin grep tool can be used to apply regular expression content scanning of the MediaInfo text results for step 2. ReNamer can be used to bulk/mass-rename the files for step 3. [/QUOTE]