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Export entire library with file fullname and metadata in a file

Is it possible foobar2000 export entire library with file fullname and metadata in a file?
Playlist like m3u, m3u8 and flp only store file fullname.

Export entire library with file fullname and metadata in a file

Reply #1 –
You can use the component foo_texttools or foo_utils.

You will want to familiarize yourself with titleformatting as well to set up what exactly gets copied.

Export entire library with file fullname and metadata in a file

Reply #3 –
I tried all three components.
foo_utils and foo_json_library_export are what I am looking for.
foo_texttools is also convenient, but it is not able to copy and paste large number of tracks.
I selected thousands of tracks and right click on them, Utilities->Text tools->Advanced...
Track pattern: %list_index%,%tracknumber%,%artist%,%title%,%path%,
Then I click the Copy button and paste to see the result. It only paste first 371 tracks.

Export entire library with file fullname and metadata in a file

Reply #4 –
Another way, using a text editor...

If you have a very big media library containing files from many different sources, you may discover that you have A LOT of custom tag names (apart from the foobar2000 standard tags).
To export the tags of your "entire media library" requires that you make a formatted list of every single tag name!

To do that, you drag the root folder of your entire media library into a blank foobar2000 playlist, select all [CTRL+A], and go to 'Properties' [Alt+Enter].
At the 'Metadata' tab, select all [CTRL+A], and copy [CTRL+C], and paste into your text editor [CTRL+V]...

Below here, I am using the text editor Notepad2-mod (DO NOT use Windows Notepad).

An example of the pasted text from part of my media library (with some added comments):
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//These are the foobar2000 standard tags with their values (truncated for visual clarity)

Artist Name : «multiple values» Alain Goraguer; The Church; Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse; Flipper; Iggy And The Stooges; Jan & Dean ...
Track Title : «multiple values» Deshominisation (II); Deshominisation (I); Generique; Le Bracelet; Ten Et Tiwa; Maquillage De Tiwa ...
Album Title : «multiple values» La Planete Sauvage; Heyday; Dark Night of the Soul; Album - Generic Flipper; Who's Your Step Daddy? ...
Date : «multiple values» 1973; 1985; 2010; 1982; 2003; 2006; 1983; 1981; 1986; 1995; 1965; 1976; &y; 1969; 1979; 1998; 2002; 1997 ...
Genre : «multiple values» Soundtrack; AlternRock; Indie; Punk; Hip-Hop; Rap; Rock; Noise Rock; Americana; Organ; Ska; Hip Hop ...
Composer : «multiple values» J.S. Bach; Les Baxter; Eazy-E/Ice Cube/M. C. Ren; Jim Heath; Anti Establishment; Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky ...
Performer : «multiple values» Ton Koopman; Seiji Ozawa & Orchestre De Paris; Sir Colin Davis, BBC Symphony Orchestra ...
Album Artist : «multiple values» G.B.H.; Herman's Hermits; Iggy And The Stooges; Jan & Dean; Johnny Cash and Bob Dylan ...
Track Number : «multiple values» 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; 7; 8; 9; 10; 11; 12; 13; 14; 15; 16; 17; 18; 19; 20; 21; 22; 23; 24; 25 ...
Total Tracks : «multiple values» 25; 13; 11; 14; 12; 17; 27; 23; 15; 3; 7; 2; 22; 16
Disc Number : «multiple values» 1/1; 1
Total Discs : «multiple values» 1
Comment : «multiple values» original French LP, EMI Pathe Marconi; CLAY LP 4; CLAY LP 8; CLAY 11; CLAY 8; PLATE 3; ExactAudioCopy v0.99pb3 (...)

//These are the custom tags
//Each tag was on a separate line and had a long string of values like the foobar2000 standard tags
//but for visual clarity I have stripped all their values and joined all the lines in Notepad2 (Selection-> CTRL+J)

<ALBUMARTISTSORT> <ARTISTSORT> <CATALOG> <COMMENT CDDB DISC ID> <COMMENT COMMENT> <COMPILATION> <COPYRIGHT> <COVERART> <COVERARTMIME> <DESCRIPTION> <DISCID> <DISCOGS_ARTIST_ID> <DISCOGS_ARTIST_ID> <DISCOGS_ARTIST_LINK> <DISCOGS_ARTIST_NAME> <DISCOGS_CATALOG> <DISCOGS_COUNTRY> <DISCOGS_DATE> <DISCOGS_LABEL> <DISCOGS_LABEL_LINK> <DISCOGS_ORIGINAL_TRACK_NUMBER> <DISCOGS_RELEASE_ID> <DISCOGS_RELEASED> <DVDA_TITLE> <DVDA_TRACK> <ENCODED BY> <ENCODER> <ENCODING PARAMS> <ENCODING SETTINGS> <ENGINEER> <ISRC> <LANGUAGE> <LOG> <LYRICS> <MEDIA TYPE> <MEDIATYPE> <ORIGINAL ARTIST> <PUBLISHER> <PUBLISHER URL> <RELEASE TYPE> <REPLAYGAIN_REFERENCE_LOUDNESS> <RIP DATE> <RIPPING TOOL> <SOURCE> <STYLE> <SUPPLIER> <TEMPO> <UNSYNCED LYRICS> <WWW>
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Let's format the text of the above text file using Search-Replace-Regex...

For all lines having custom tags, we do this:

For this example, let's look at one line which originally looked exactly like this:
<DISCOGS_ARTIST_ID> : «multiple values» 10463; 88606; 59249; 135946; 135947; 135948; 26592; 56799; 164252; 323533; 61686

we select the line, and open the 'Replace Text' dialog box [CTRL+H], and check 'Regular expression search'

Let's replace all text to the right of a matching string pattern with some text
Search string is "> : .*"      «««   remove the quotes
Replace with ">"      «««   remove the quotes

Result:
<DISCOGS_ARTIST_ID>

Let's replace the last character in each line with some text...
Search string is ">$"      «««   remove the quotes
Replace with " "      «««   field is empty

Result:
<DISCOGS_ARTIST_ID

Let's replace the first character in each line with some text...
Search string is "^<"      «««   remove the quotes
Replace with " "      «««   field is empty

Result:
DISCOGS_ARTIST_ID

Let's add some text to beginning and end of the line...
Search string is "^(.+)$"      «««   ^ means start of the line | . means any character | + matches the preceding one or more times | $ means end of the line
Replace with "$meta(\1)"      «««   \1 means the source match within the parentheses

Result:
$meta(DISCOGS_ARTIST_ID)

For all lines having foobar2000 standard tags, we do this:

For this example, let's look at the string of the 'Artist Name' tag:
Artist Name : «multiple values» Alain Goraguer; The Church; Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse; Flipper; Iggy And The Stooges; Jan & Dean ...

Let's replace all text of a matching string pattern with some other text...
Search string is "Artist Name : .*"      «««   . means any character | * matches the preceding zero or more times
Replace with "$meta(artist)"      «««   has been converted to foobar2000 title formatting syntax

Result:
$meta(artist)

So after operating on all lines of the text file...
we will have a flat list of tag names formatted as foobar2000 title formatting syntax.
These formatted tag names can now be used as input for the components foo_texttools or foo_utils as mentioned by Daeron.
 

Export entire library with file fullname and metadata in a file

Reply #5 –
Thank you for your detailed reply.
I tried your method with notepad2-mod. Search-Replace-Regex is very powerful.
With this technique I can get all custom tag names fast. And I can export all the metadata now.