Topic: Media Center 10 - Feature Requests (are they possible?) (Read 3853 times)

Tanushan · « **on:** January 12, 2004, 01:41:47 am »

Hi,

I would like:-

a) volume levelling feature that worked outside MC, i.e so that I could volume level and then take it on my portable mp3 player, and it would be all the same volume. I believe MusicMatch has this feature.

b) a better tagging system like MusicMatch's. YADB doesn't have half the of the info for my cds, and if this isn't possible at least give users the right to use freedb / cddb, like pretty much any other program

thanks

Uwe · « **Reply #1 on:** January 12, 2004, 02:16:04 am »

MusicMatch seems to be the best choice for you

zevele10 · « **Reply #2 on:** January 12, 2004, 05:56:19 am »

A] you can do it with MC
B]......................................

Tanushan · « **Reply #3 on:** January 12, 2004, 03:44:34 pm »

i like everything else about media center, it just sux i have to keep musicmatch on my comp just to tag files properly

Tanushan · « **Reply #4 on:** January 12, 2004, 03:46:30 pm »

oh and more requests plz

if i have a file say Deep_Purple_-_Highway_Star, and use the fill properties from filename option, it comes out like this

Artist: Deep_Purple_
Title: _Highway_Star

how about an option to ignore the _ ?

zevele10 · « **Reply #5 on:** January 12, 2004, 03:50:51 pm »

You can remove the _ ,in clean properties

And MC /MusicMatch SuperTags is a powerfull couple.

And when you get use to MC , you DO NOT use MM for more than SuperTags and ,maybe burn.

I use SuperTags and MC as my main player

Tanushan · « **Reply #6 on:** January 12, 2004, 11:58:27 pm »

more features:-

1) Artists (Grouped) how about a one letter for each letter eg instead of A-C, have 1 for A,B and C or at least make it an editable option

2) The ability to remove items from the side bar eg like scraping my computer so it doesn't appear

thx

NoCodeUK · « **Reply #7 on:** January 13, 2004, 06:08:32 am »

Grouped fields can be grouped to any level you want...and you can have multiple groupings in a view scheme too. I have a scheme that has Album Artsit grouped to 3 (A-C, D-F etc.) and then grouped to 1 (A, B, C) that way I f I click A-C the second column shows A B C...

Rather than requesting these things as features it may be better to post asking if they are possible as nearly everything you have 'requested' is already in MC

Adam

Quisp · « **Reply #8 on:** January 13, 2004, 11:04:54 am »

And a trip to the help file never hurts.

On another note, I've installed MM and couldn't imagine wishing that nightmare on my worst enemy. What are "SuperTags", what makes them "Super" other than they prevent people from deleting a very bloated and awkward piece of software (IMHO)?

zevele10 · « **Reply #9 on:** January 13, 2004, 11:49:53 am »

SuperTag is EXELLENT to get art sleeve and tags

MusicMatch is just an average jukebox for sure
But do not see the point to call it a nightmare

To me MC10 is a nightmare..

Look like there is a MC Bin Laden crowd over here

zevele10 · « **Reply #10 on:** January 13, 2004, 11:52:50 am »

Tanushan

I'am know to be one of those needing quite a help from others.

But i use to ask AFTER reading the help files.....

Quisp · « **Reply #11 on:** January 13, 2004, 01:53:50 pm »

zevele,

Could you elaborate on how the SuperTag system is any better than the system here? I'm confused about people's comments about getting tags and album covers with one click, there must be more to the super tags than that. I realize that it takes two clicks to get tags and album cover art from MC, but is the irradication of one click enough to call it "Super"?

As for the nightmare, basically, I've got a large collection of music. MM can't even load it's own interface and my database at the same time. Extremely ineffective, however, a well tagged library is a well organized library and in order to take advantage of MC's strengths, tagging must be as complete as possible.

Right now tagging in MC is admittantly a pain. I use about three different pieces of software to get my tags to where I want them. I use EAC to rip and get CDDB info and a cue sheet, then I use the Godfather to get the All Music info such as reviews, tones and styles, then I've got to copy and paste the information from AMG by hand into the appropriate custom fields. Then I need to search and replace comma space with semi colon, then comma with semi colon, then I need to copy the artist field into a sort field, and then I've got to cut the first name in the sort field and paste it after the artist's last name, then I've got to....

...the sad part is, I'm not anal retentive...

...then I use KingSparta's wonderful plugs to get the Lyrics, Bios and...

---come to think of it the nightmare is starting to look better than the reality....

zevele10 · « **Reply #12 on:** January 13, 2004, 02:20:58 pm »

just lost a long answer to you
About SuperTag.

Will answer you later

LisaRCT · « **Reply #13 on:** January 13, 2004, 04:24:35 pm »

Quote from: Quisp on January 13, 2004, 01:53:50 pm

...the sad part is, I'm not anal retentive...

$:-\$

Quisp · « **Reply #14 on:** January 13, 2004, 04:47:16 pm »

Quote from: LisaRCT on January 13, 2004, 04:24:35 pm

Quote from: Quisp on January 13, 2004, 01:53:50 pm
...the sad part is, I'm not anal retentive...

$:-\$

NO, REALLY!

Allow me to illustrate...

My current organizational method (this photo doesn't include the piles of cds in boxes, in the car, under my desk, at work, etc...):

At one point these were in alphabetical order, I can barely remember that day...

zevele10 · « **Reply #15 on:** January 13, 2004, 04:54:03 pm »

messy messy my friend......

I use 'genre' to range cd
metal shelve- psy shelve- french- alt country- ect ect shelve

It is the way i found to be able to find records fast
and YES there is a ???shelve with a big mess- but not sure where to put them

bmunroe · « **Reply #16 on:** January 13, 2004, 05:14:24 pm »

Quisp - Supertagging (in MM) looks up tags and cover art in one step. It will give you artist name, album, track #, etc. It can also fill tags from filenames. For example - if you have a file with the name "Rolling Stones - Satisfaction.mp3" but no tags, supertagging can fill in the Artist & Name tag, then lookup what albums that song appears on, and provide the artwork for the album. It also lets you "preview" changes before they happen.

Much more robost than MC, IMHO. MM also has a great radio feature.

As a jukebox/ file management program it is not great. MC rules there.

Brian

Tanushan · « **Reply #17 on:** January 13, 2004, 11:11:08 pm »

another:

instead of using "assorted" for various artist folders, how about a customizeable one?

NoCodeUK · « **Reply #18 on:** January 14, 2004, 03:21:18 am »

Again Tanushan this is possible. Fill in the Album Artist Field to show Various Artists or whatever you want and put the actual artist in the Artist field. When you check the use 'Assorted for folder' box it will name the folder after what you have put in the Album Artist field...again I think this is in the help file...if not it has defnitely been mentioned here and could have been found using the forum search...

Adam

Quisp · « **Reply #19 on:** January 14, 2004, 07:51:23 am »

bmunroe - Thanks for the description of SuperTagging. I sounds to me like all jriver needs to do is look up album art at the same time as tag info, add one more feature and they could call their tagging method, "SuperDuperTagging".

I do like the preview mode, you can kind of get there with the undo feature in MC, but I'm always a little shy about relying on that and it is much better to see and test the effects of your decisions before actually making them, something computers are really good for...

Tanushan · « **Reply #20 on:** January 14, 2004, 04:19:33 pm »

another:

ability to choose track titles, eg when i am ripping if it chooses the wrong set of titles there is no easy way to change it i even edited cdplayer.ini, but to no avail

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