SonodexQuick Fixes
16 clean-up fixes for the whole library, in groups with search, a before-and-after example and preview. Before Sonodex writes the tags to your audio files, it asks.
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How to work with Quick FixesLink to “How to work with Quick Fixes”
- Open Library → Quick Fixes or Tools → “Clean up …”.
- On the left are the fixes in the groups “Clean up”, “Metadata”, “Naming” and “Advanced”. “Search Quick Fixes” filters the list, and “Hide fixes without matches” shows only fixes that have something to do. The number on a fix says how many tracks it would change; “Clean” means nothing to do.
- Choose a fix and click “View changes”. The preview shows “Before” and “After” for each track and field. Use the checkboxes to leave out individual fields or whole tracks; “Select all” and “Select none” help with many rows.
- Leave “Also write to the audio files’ tags” on if the files should get the new tags, or turn it off, in which case only the Sonodex library changes.
- Click “Apply to … tracks” (or “Apply selection”). If the fix writes to files, Sonodex asks “Write tags to audio files?” and names the target and consequences; only “Write tags to … files” starts it.
Sonodex then shows the result: how many files were written, skipped (such as streaming references or formats without tags) or failed. You retry failed ones under Tasks; “View in history” jumps to the entry in the History.
Sonodex writes via a temporary file and does not create a backup copy of the originals. Undo reverts the change in the library and writes the previous tags back to the files. Other programs such as Rekordbox only see the new tags once they re-read the files. Archived tracks are not included.
All 16 fixes with an exampleLink to “All 16 fixes with an example”
The examples are the same ones Sonodex shows in the list and are calculated by each fix itself.
| Fix | What it does | Before | After |
|---|---|---|---|
| Smart fix: characters, URLs and spaces | Clean up HTML entities, URLs and superfluous spaces together | Title: Rock & Roll https://sndcld.co/x | Title: Rock & Roll |
| Split artist, title & remixer | Split “Artist - Title (Remixer … Remix) [Genre]” from the title or file name; remove download suffixes | Title: Bicep - Glue (Hammer Remix) [Techno] | Title: Glue (Remix) · Artist: Bicep · Remixer: Hammer · Genre: Techno |
| Remove promo clutter | Remove “[FREE DL]”, “Premiere:”, “OUT NOW”, @handles, links and emojis from title, artist, album, label, comment, genre and tags; a “Free” in the real title stays | Title: Glue (FREE DOWNLOAD) | Title: Glue |
| Clean up spaces | Clean up leading, trailing and multiple spaces | Title: Glue (Original Mix) | Title: Glue (Original Mix) |
| Normalise genre spelling | Merge common spellings of genres | Genre: hip hop, dnb | Genre: Hip-Hop, Drum & Bass |
| Normalise artist suffixes | Normalise common artist suffixes | Artist: Bicep ft. Clara La San | Artist: Bicep feat. Clara La San |
| Extract artist from title | Take the artist from titles in the format Artist - Title if it is missing | Title: Bicep - Glue · Artist: empty | Title: Glue · Artist: Bicep |
| Remove number prefix | Remove clear track numbers at the start of the title | Title: 01 - Glue | Title: Glue |
| Capitalize words | Capitalise the first letter of each word | Title: glue (original mix) | Title: Glue (Original Mix) |
| Remove control and invisible characters | Remove invisible control and formatting characters | Title: Glue with invisible characters at the end | Title: Glue |
| Replace selected characters with spaces | Replace characters you choose with spaces (in the example _) | Title: Deep_House_Groove | Title: Deep House Groove |
| Remove URLs | Remove web addresses from title and artist | Title: Glue https://soundcloud.com/bicep | Title: Glue |
| Decode HTML entities | Convert encoded HTML entities into readable text | Title: Drum & Bass | Title: Drum & Bass |
| Extract remixer into version | Move the remixer from the title into the version field | Title: Glue (Hammer Remix) | Title: Glue · Version: Hammer Remix |
| Put mix suffix in parentheses | Put the title’s mix suffix in brackets | Title: Glue - Extended Mix | Title: Glue (Extended Mix) |
| Remove selected text | Remove a text you specify (in the example [Free Download]) | Title: Glue [Free Download] | Title: Glue |
Good to knowLink to “Good to know”
- “Split artist, title & remixer” recognises feat./ft., a remixer after a second hyphen, Refix/Rerub/Dub/Mashup and “Remixed by”. An existing remixer entry is never overwritten.
- “Remove clutter” leaves #hashtags in comment and tags; an album or label that would become empty as a result stays unchanged.
- “Remove number prefix” only changes the title and only clear numbers such as
01 -or1.; titles like “99 Problems” stay. - Existing comments in the files are kept.
- Quick Fixes are also available as the “Apply Quick Fix” step in Recipes.
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