Topic: "Swag of Tools" : Collection of Utilities for MC (Read 119676 times)

pepar · « **Reply #100 on:** February 17, 2018, 04:05:12 am »

Excel itself allows one to click on the top of a column, i.e. A, B, C, etc, to highlight it and then change formats. One can also select multiple columns with the A-B-C row with Shift-Click and Alt-Click, or even holding down the left mouse button and dragging the cursor across multiple column tops.

Don’t know if the import wizard works the same way though ....

GaryWW · « **Reply #101 on:** February 17, 2018, 06:27:51 pm »

Quote from: pepar on February 17, 2018, 04:05:12 am

Shift-Click
Don’t know if the import wizard works the same way though ....

Yep it does.

GaryWW · « **Reply #102 on:** February 17, 2018, 06:34:52 pm »

Quote from: jmone on February 16, 2018, 08:18:49 pm

looks like it is an excel thing being "helpful" if cells contain certain characters
See if that now works for you (if it does, or you find another way of doing the same) let me know and I'll update the notes.

That procedure worked well. I haven't found any other.

I don't think it is really an issue but do you know why the track #1 particle points to all of the tracks on the album? If I play track #1 and right click, I see a Titles option that opens to lists all the tracks (particles). None of the other tracks (particles) have the Titles option (as they should not).

jmone · « **Reply #103 on:** February 17, 2018, 07:22:35 pm »

Glad the import now works.

I do see when the 1st Particle is playing, there is a Right Click --> Jump To Menu --> showing all the chapters that does not appear with any of the subsequent particles. It does not matter if you have Unstacked the particles either. Must be a MC Feature.

Gatherum · « **Reply #104 on:** February 18, 2018, 03:48:17 pm »

See attachment. Is there a way to make this work?

jmone · « **Reply #105 on:** February 19, 2018, 01:21:26 pm »

What does / does not work for you?

Gatherum · « **Reply #106 on:** February 19, 2018, 01:50:56 pm »

Nothing! Everything seems to work just fine. I guess I'm just suggesting a context menu short-cut to the Particlise tool.

jmone · « **Reply #107 on:** February 20, 2018, 02:10:54 am »

Ahhh got it. Let me check when I'm back at home what shortcuts I already add to MC's menu VS what other should be added. Thanks

lepa · « **Reply #108 on:** February 24, 2018, 12:54:56 pm »

Quote from: jmone on January 07, 2018, 06:00:48 am

You're welcome. Let me know of any bugs etc. Can you post a description / screen shot of what you are doing (it may be of interest to others) and I'll link it to the MediaInfo post as an example?

First of all most of my videos are in foreign language so I'm using this first of all to populate my user created [Subtitles] DB field up to date without manual work.

Then I can make a view which shows only the videos which contains subtitles in my native language or where the spoken language is in my native language.
In Finland basically only childrens movies are dubbed and for those I want to know if the audio is in finnish as small children cannot read so the subs doesn't help there. That's one reason for need to have separate language fields so I'll know if the language tag concerns audio or subtitles.

Other use case is to get the information which videos lack subtitles (after running the tool) so I can add them to my TODO view.

For people who are watching almost everything in their mother tongue it might be little difficult to understand these subtitles needs but hopefully above made some sense

And thank you for the tool!

GaryWW · « **Reply #109 on:** March 06, 2018, 09:41:47 pm »

Hi Nathan,

I see you recently updated Swag. Care to share what changes were included?

...Gary

Gatherum · « **Reply #110 on:** March 27, 2018, 12:52:03 pm »

Having a problem. See attachment.

This suddenly started happening as I was trying to create particles. Username and password have not been changed. Why is it throwing this error?

EDIT: Never mind. Somehow, Read-Only Authentication got changed in Options.

jmone · « **Reply #111 on:** August 11, 2018, 01:40:42 am »

Update: 11 Aug 2018
- MediaInfo now support also support File Extensions of "index.bluray3d;1" (MC made a change recently where BD 3D would get this "file extension" rather than "index.bluray;1")
- Updated the Autohotkey to the latest compiler for 32 and 64-Bit versions in the OP
- Updated the version of Media Info to the latest (just delete the Swag of Tools MediaInfo sub directory to re-download the latest).

All in all, minor changes, just needed to add the "new" BD 3D file extension. Let me know of any odd behaviours from the new compiler etc. I do know that some of these BD can take some time for MediaInfo to finish it's scan.

TheShoe · « **Reply #112 on:** August 24, 2018, 10:24:12 am »

Just started using these tools! Thank you! Saves a lot of time; still a good amount of tagging/manual work but this is incredibly helpful.

Never really deeply used the power of MC tagging/library management and particles, but this is quite flexible. Learning curve is steep!

TheShoe · « **Reply #113 on:** August 27, 2018, 09:10:06 am »

found an mpls that does not work with chatperfy.

it will read the mpls, report 13 chapters, but when I go to create the particles, it appears to "hang".

the particles appear in MC, but only the first one works; the rest report "file not found" when attempting to play them.

manually creating them in MC seems to work without error. First I've encountered this using the tools.

question for you - what end time does your code use for a chapter when creating a particle? is it the start of the next chapter minus some value?

let me know if you want me to provide the mpls. it's from Steven Wilson's Grace for Drowning BD Audio. 0008.mpls

Edit:

So looked at the tags of the files that could not be found. Seems randomly (I tried this multiple times) it does not set the file path correctly for this mpls. Correcting that fixed the issue. There's nothing special about the file path that I can determine - it's the same with exception of the album title which is just alpha characters.

jmone · « **Reply #114 on:** August 28, 2018, 03:45:00 am »

Quote from: jmone on August 29, 2016, 01:05:51 am

Guide: Chapterfy (Particlise Anything - aka Manage Music Videos Like CDs)

......

Notes, Limitations, Future Stuff:
- If creating a sidecar chapters file from existing particles make sure they are shown in the correct order in MC
- I'm hoping that one day MC will support chapter side car files for displaying chapter names in the MC Menu during playback (instead of Chatper 1, 2 etc) but that is up to JR
- There is a bug in MC : Incorrect Filename on Create Particles (sometime)

I'm not sure if what you are seeing is from this long term bug? If you follow the link above there is more details and a pic of what I sometimes get.

xynoe44 · « **Reply #115 on:** August 28, 2018, 10:57:40 am »

Do the attachments in the first post work? I am getting "Attachment not found" when trying to download them.
Would like to test the plugin

Thanks.

JimH · « **Reply #116 on:** August 28, 2018, 11:09:50 am »

No. They don't work. It's probably related to our recent server problem. jmone will need to upload them again.

xynoe44 · « **Reply #117 on:** August 28, 2018, 12:28:02 pm »

Thanks JimH for the confirmation. I'll be alert to see if he updload them again.

jmone · « **Reply #118 on:** August 28, 2018, 05:11:08 pm »

Fixed - re-uploaded in the OP.

xynoe44 · « **Reply #119 on:** August 30, 2018, 10:51:51 am »

Quote from: jmone on August 28, 2018, 05:11:08 pm

Fixed - re-uploaded in the OP.

Working again! Thanks, jmone.

jmone · « **Reply #120 on:** September 02, 2018, 07:41:44 pm »

Update: 03 Sep 2018
New: Filename Updater.
- This allows you to update the "Filename" field in MC even for objects like Particles where the MC own "Rename, Move, & Copy Files --> Update Database..." = "file not supported".
- The Main purpose is to fix incorrectly created particles where the Filename ends up wrong.
- You can select one or more files in MC but will need to confirm each one In Swag of Tools.
- If you rerun the Swag of Tools --> Configuration --> OK it will also add a MC Shortcut for this function.

Note: I'm not "keen" on this feature as MC does some post processing when filenames are changed so you can get odd popups etc. I'd prefer that:
1) the bug of (sometimes) incorrectly creating Particles is fixed, and
2) the "Rename, Move, & Copy Files --> Update Database..." is supported for particles

TheShoe · « **Reply #121 on:** September 08, 2018, 07:32:35 am »

I was editing chapter names and included "," in some of the names.

Seems this does not parse well by Chapterfy when creating the particles; perhaps you're parsing/breaking on "," ?

Changing it to a "-" worked.

jmone · « **Reply #122 on:** September 08, 2018, 04:27:25 pm »

Yeah - "," is a special char and I'm probably not escaping it properly! I'll have to look at the code (at some point).

TheShoe · « **Reply #123 on:** September 09, 2018, 08:17:10 am »

Quote from: jmone on September 08, 2018, 04:27:25 pm

Yeah - "," is a special char and I'm probably not escaping it properly! I'll have to look at the code (at some point).

happy to contribute if you want...

jmone · « **Reply #124 on:** September 09, 2018, 03:53:07 pm »

More than happy if you want to have a look at the code. I escape a bunch of stuff in the "Fiddler" part of the code, but I don't think I've applied it to the "Particle" code.

TheShoe · « **Reply #125 on:** September 09, 2018, 04:22:35 pm »

downloaded your source. maybe consider throwing it up on Github?

So... Not a familiar syntax to me but I can parse it. I'm a Java/C/C++ (very weak)/HTML/CSS dev (or was; I can still read and write code and do so now as a hobby but time is the biggest issue for me)

I'll look through this and send you via PM whatever suggestions I come up with. I'm not versed in AHK but will google a bit as time permits. Seems a fun project.

Anyway - think about Github. That way I can check in stuff and you can do a pull request and review/accept what you deem acceptable (and reject the rest

)

Cheers and thanks! This is cool stuff. You have caused me to explore a new area of MC I would not have otherwise.

jmone · « **Reply #126 on:** September 09, 2018, 05:34:22 pm »

Feel Free! Any help is welcome as my formal programming skills was Uni in the mid/late 80's and I'm not sure Modular is a thing anymore and my assembler suxed, hence I now just use scripting (did a bit in the 90's with Foxbase but rhat was acquired by MS). I'm also not good in knowing if there are libraries to do "stuff", eg I tend to write a parser to then find out a library has been around for years.

Anyway, all the source is available in the OP and if anyone wants to setup GitHub etc fell free (I only ever download stuff from it, I've never created a project) but I guess that would make sense if others want to fix/change/add stuff to this script.

Peter M · « **Reply #127 on:** April 06, 2019, 06:59:34 am »

It appears that chapterdb is down.

Any way around this to keep Chapterfy working ?

jmone · « **Reply #128 on:** April 08, 2019, 03:33:03 pm »

Yeah it has been down for a month. Does not look good. The other Chapterfy options will work just not the bit that pulls the names from the chaperfy DB. There is a read only copy at http://chapterdb.plex.tv/ that you could download the chapter.txt file and use that in Chapterfy

Peter M · « **Reply #129 on:** April 09, 2019, 12:01:16 am »

Thanks.

I have about 110 concert rips, so looks like I've got a bit of work to do !

Cheers,
Peter

jmone · « **Reply #130 on:** April 09, 2019, 12:58:36 am »

Nice collection! Typing in the names for all those tracks is going to be a PITA however

... though you could cut and past from the backup site for the ones that they have in Chapterfy where you get to the review part.

Joelava · « **Reply #131 on:** July 18, 2019, 06:23:07 am »

Mr JMONE - Does your swag of tools address my MC ot Itunes Sync needs? https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php/topic,121478.0.html

Thanks

JoeLava

jmone · « **Reply #132 on:** July 18, 2019, 06:34:35 am »

Sorry Joe it does not.

fitbrit · « **Reply #133 on:** July 20, 2019, 09:29:59 am »

Quote from: fitbrit on January 03, 2018, 02:44:11 pm

Wow, great work. I shall look into all this very soon. Exactly what I was looking for.

A year and a half later, and I only started playing with it today! Loving it so far, although I am not sure I know how to make MediaInfo do exactly what I want yet.

jmone · « **Reply #134 on:** July 20, 2019, 04:45:38 pm »

No need to rush

DHF · « **Reply #135 on:** October 27, 2019, 07:05:02 pm »

I am having challenges updating MC25 using Data Fiddler. I found the FileKey as a function - so I created a library field for it and put in the function =FileKey() for the values.
All good so far. And I created a new field called Album DUPE. I want to put a "1" in album dupe using Data Fiddler.

Here is my txt file:
Key;Album DUPE;Album Artist (Auto);Album
38263;1;"10;000 Maniacs";Blind Man's Zoo
38273;1;"10;000 Maniacs";Love Among The Ruins
38285;1;"10;000 Maniacs";MTV Unplugged
38300;1;"10;000 Maniacs";Our Time in Eden
38312;1;"10;000 Maniacs";The Wishing Chair
38386;1;A Fine Frenzy;One Cell In The Sea
33665;1;Aaron Neville;To Make Me Who I Am
33677;1;Aaron Neville;Warm Your Heart
38469;1;AC/DC;Back In Black
38481;1;AC/DC;Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
30263;1;Acoustic Alchemy;Against The Grain
30282;1;Acoustic Alchemy;The New Edge
38556;1;Aerosmith;Aerosmith
38566;1;Aerosmith;Box Of Fire Bonus Disc
20551;1;Air;Le Voyage Dans La Lune
20562;1;Air;Moon Safari
20571;1;Air;Pocket Symphony
20587;1;Air;Premiers Symptomes
20590;1;Air;Talkie Walkie
20602;1;Air;The Virgin Suicides
32610;1;Al Jarreau;High Crime
12714;1;Alabama;Dancin' on the Boulevard
38591;1;Alabama Shakes;Boys & Girls

When I tell it to run - it looks like it runs - and no error messages - but the Album DUPE field is not updated.

Any help out there?

jmone · « **Reply #136 on:** October 28, 2019, 03:13:46 am »

I'm not sure if this helps, but you don't need to create a field for FileKey in MC. You can just show it (right click on the col headings and select from the list). Maybe it does not like two FileKeys in MC? I'd delete the FileKey field you created.

DHF · « **Reply #137 on:** October 28, 2019, 08:10:19 am »

FileKey does not appear as one of the library fields available for me.
Thats why I thought I had to make one.

I ran Fiddler after deleting my own FileKey and still no luck.

DHF · « **Reply #138 on:** October 28, 2019, 10:45:51 am »

Maybe a dumb question - but how does Fiddler know which JRiver library to modify? Does it just work on the one that is currently loaded?

jmone · « **Reply #139 on:** October 31, 2019, 05:17:30 pm »

Sorry - travelling for work.
- No idea why you can not see the file key in the MC Library (I can just fine).
- Yes it works on the loaded library.

jmone · « **Reply #140 on:** October 31, 2019, 05:27:46 pm »

Attached is a sample TXT file that works fine for me adding "1" to a Field call DUPE (setup as an Integer)

DHF · « **Reply #141 on:** October 31, 2019, 05:28:24 pm »

I know it sounds like I have no idea what I am doing - and that is true much of the time. Here are my library fields.

Why wouldnt FileKey appear?

jmone · « **Reply #142 on:** October 31, 2019, 05:35:51 pm »

No you are correct! I checked and I had created a FileKey Expression (as shown) so I could see it in the Views. Must have been years ago and I'd just forgotten (sorry about that). ;( I'll add it to the instructions on the Data Fiddler post.

DHF · « **Reply #143 on:** October 31, 2019, 06:02:22 pm »

Cool. I appreciate your help.
I need to weed out a bunch of album dupes and Excel is the way to find them.
I will be working on this more - and I really like the swag of tools.
Thanks so much for your efforts.

Hope you dont mind me asking a couple more questions as they pop up.
This is going to save me a bunch of time.

jmone · « **Reply #144 on:** October 31, 2019, 06:05:09 pm »

No problems at all. Did you get it to work (adding 1 to DUPE)? It's hard to tell with a forum post of the txt file, but I'm guessing it is just you were delimiting with ";" rather than a TAB?

DHF · « **Reply #145 on:** October 31, 2019, 06:07:07 pm »

I think that is it. I am in the middle of importing a bunch tonight - so I will try it tomorrow.

DHF · « **Reply #146 on:** November 14, 2019, 04:30:30 pm »

JMone -

That utility is absolutely fabulous. Once I got through the initial learning curve - the FileKey thing - it worked flawlessly.

Thanks a bunch.

jmone · « **Reply #147 on:** November 14, 2019, 05:29:29 pm »

No probs - glad it is of help!

TXgary · « **Reply #148 on:** March 11, 2020, 07:27:44 pm »

Old post but very relative for me currently. I need a utility that will allow me to import an excel spreadsheet or CSV file that contains artist and song. What I have is an excel spreadsheet of a playlist that I want to duplicate in Media Center (I have the songs but no way to tag them to a playlist without selecting each one and adding to playlist. So if I had the ability to import a list of songs artist and "special tag" then sort on "special tag" -> Song -> Artist -> my jriver music would sort above or below each of the entries I have in my excel playlist. I could then mass select the "real" songs and put them into the correct playlist. Thus having a playlist exactly like the one I have in excel.
Your thoughts

DHF · « **Reply #149 on:** March 11, 2020, 10:23:34 pm »

To tie a list of songs (Album artist name etc) together to the database - you need the filekey. Create the filekey library field, then do an export of your library into excel - just enough tags that you can find the songs you need. And include the filekey field in the export to excel.
With excel - you want to look up the playlist data to find the filekey for every song in the list.
Now you figure out what you want to change about those files - change a tag - a library field.
If its just a playlist you want - What I would do is create another library field - named whatever you want - and make it - binary - yes/no or 1/0
Then change that library field for those filekeys to yes or true or 1 using the utility.
Next time you go in - sort by that library field and you will find all your selected songs together.

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