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[mrmb]

From some late night research, it would appear that FLAC tags the record label as "organization".  I would like a record label Category in MC.  How would the expression be phrased to display the record label from my FLAC files?

[vagskal]

First you have to get the organization tag into the MC database. Make a new library field named exactly as the tag, i.e. Organization. Then select all your flac files in MC and right click and choose Library Tools>Update Library (from tags) (any changes you have made only in MC and not saved to the file tags will be replaced by what is in the tags in the actual files). Now you can use the new field just like any other field in MC.

It is not possible to import the flac organization tag into the MC standard field Publisher. If you have also mp3 files with TPUB tags MC will automatically put the publisher information in that field. If you want to combine the data in the publisher and organization tags to have just one field that displays publisher information for both mp3 and flac files, create a new field, called Publishers, for example, with this expression:

Code: [Select]

ListCombine([Publisher],[Organization])&datatype=[list]
PS. I edited the expression above to be shown as code because it unfortunately got corrupted  when it was just plain text.

[mrmb]

Your explanation was perfect...

Thanks so much vagskal!

[vagskal]

I am glad that it worked for you.

You might want to join me in this feature request thread http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=56698.msg384787#msg384787 to ask for having MC automatically import and write the Organization tag  (Vorbis comment) in flac files to/from the standard MC Publisher field. If MC was to support also this standard for flac files you would not have to apply the workaround I explained for you.

PS. If you are having both mp3 and flac files and are experiencing similar issues with album artist and discnumber just do the equivalent of what I said to import and join these items with the standard mp3 items recognized by MC (and vote for also these enhancement requests in the thread I referred to...).