Edit ID3 Tag should be saved with each project

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Oh god, this little nugget again.!

Honestly, Steinberg have had little or no interest in doing anything about this for over 10 years. So, my advice.? Forget, I mean completely banish the notion that this facility exits at all in Cubase.

Right - starting from there, now what are you going to do.? You have to resort to a 3rd party solution of course. There are a few out there. Myself, I use Mp3tag.

  1. You could do a bunch of exports into a specific folder, then drag all those into Mp3tag and handle all your metadata editing easily inside there. Job done. Move on. Happy days.

  2. Or, for those one-off outputs, I’ve hooked up the Cubase mechanism called ‘After Export’, in the Audio Export Window, to automatically launch Mp3tag when Cubase completes the export.

    Audio Export_post process
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Place the following script (copy and paste into NotePad and save with an *.aepp extension) into the folder
C:\ProgramData\Steinberg\Audio Export Post Process Scripts

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<AudioExportPostProcess>
	<Description>
		<us>Open in Mp3tag</us>
	</Description>
	<Icon>Mp3tag.png</Icon>
	<Executable>
		<Name>Mp3tag</Name>
		<Version>3.28</Version>
		<Path>C:\Program Files\Mp3tag\Mp3tag.exe</Path>
		<Argument>"$PATH"</Argument>
	</Executable>
	<RunOnce>false</RunOnce>
	<WaitDone>false</WaitDone>
</AudioExportPostProcess>

I had to make an icon myself and place the *.png in the root of same folder.

  1. Or, you could use the ‘Open File Location’ script/option (Windows only). Have your File Explorer open in the background at the right folder, and now the script will add each export to that same instance of the file manager (i.e. it won’t keep opening multiple windows at subsequent exports performed - say when using Job Queue or Cycle Markers). Instruction *.txt in the zip file with a small executable to run…
    Open Location.zip (631.1 KB)

Finally, a different solution to the ‘Open Explorer’ mechanism, offered by @Johnny_Moneto here
Audio Export Post Processing: Open Export Folder - Cubase - Steinberg Forums

To be clear, yes, it would be fun if SB did something their end to help with what’s there already in Cubase - but really, you’re just wishing/hoping your life away.

EDIT:-
After some discussions on the Mp3tag forum; you could edit the syntax in the following entry to provide the ability to add subsequent exports to the same Mp3tag list. Meaning, when done with all your exports, you could manage your metadata/tag editing on that bunch of files at once…
Change
<Argument>"$PATH"</Argument>

To
<Argument>/add /fn: "$PATH"</Argument>

I’ve just tested it and it works great doing individual exports.! What I haven’t tested as yet, is when using this process via Cubase’s ‘Job Queue’ mechanism…