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Find a Genre with a lowercase first letter

I have a large music library and often encounter this problem:-

Sometimes a genre gets imported with a lower-case first letter (eg "rock")

As of today I have 71338 tracks with genre "Rock" or "rock", I suspect only 2 or 3 are "rock", but finding them in a list that long is nigh on impossible.

However Auto-Complete in Song-Info automatically picks up "rock" when you type "R" (which is weird since "R" comes before "r" in ASCII alphabet).

Q: Is there a quick/elegant way of finding all genre = "rock" so I can change them?

Non-elegant solution 1: Select all 71338, right-click Song Info, set to genre="Rock", and goto to pub/bed/work.

Weird Solution 2: Sync to an iPhone/iPad by Genre, where both "rock" and "Rock" appear as tick boxes, choose "rock" and see what they are. (This seems to be the only place where upper and lower check boxes appear)

Solution 3: I know this works on Mac, but test it first on a Genre that only has few tracks (change one track to lower case, if you need to). This method takes advantage of the fact that Genre field in Get Info window treats Rock and rock as different tags, even though everywhere else in iTunes they’re treated as the same.

1. Select the Rock genre, so all tracks appear in main window;

2. Select a few thousand songs at a time and Get Info;

3a. If all selected tracks are tagged Rock with a capital letter, the Genre field in Get Info will say Rock;

3b. If, how’re, the selection contains tracks tagged Rock and rock, the Genre field in Get Info will say Mixed; in that case, select Rock for the field and save;

4. Repeat for the remaining tracks.

Solution 3: I know this works on Mac, but test it first on a Genre that only has few tracks (change one track to lower case, if you need to). This method takes advantage of the fact that Genre field in Get Info window treats Rock and rock as different tags, even though everywhere else in iTunes they’re treated as the same.

1. Select the Rock genre, so all tracks appear in main window;

2. Select a few thousand songs at a time and Get Info;

3a. If all selected tracks are tagged Rock with a capital letter, the Genre field in Get Info will say Rock;

3b. If, how’re, the selection contains tracks tagged Rock and rock, the Genre field in Get Info will say Mixed; in that case, select Rock for the field and save;

4. Repeat for the remaining tracks.

Thanks Rysz, great suggestion - do it in big chunks. It works the same on Windows, shows Rock & rock as mixed in Get-Info.

Took me two mins to find the album with the rogue tag - used binary halving too (ie do A-M tracks, then A-F, then G-M etc)

Thanks Rysz, great suggestion - do it in big chunks. It works the same on Windows, shows Rock & rock as mixed in Get-Info.

Took me two mins to find the album with the rogue tag - used binary halving too (ie do A-M tracks, then A-F, then G-M etc)

最后更新：2017-10-13 23:19:48

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