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More => Old Versions => Media Center 11 (Development Ended) => Topic started by: jcouch93 on October 09, 2002, 10:00:00 pm
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Alrighty folks, I've tried everything I can think of, so hopefully Matt has a suggestion... ;)
I have mp3's that I group together using the name field. Like this:
Soundtrack - Gattaca - Gattaca Theme
Electronic - Fatboy Slim - Rockefeller Skank
Classical - Beethoven - Beethoven's Fifth
The problem I have is when I want to "Fill Properties From Filename", I don't know how to have the First part included in the naming scheme. I know that for the above examples I could use Genre, but I have others where I don't use the genre. I've tried using
[IGNORE]-[ARTIST]-[NAME]
But that just leaves off the first part. If I use
[ARTIST]-[ARTIST]-[NAME]
then it doesn't do anything. Another question I had was if I select multiple files for editing and want to add a field (ie Soundtrack, Genre, etc) to the Artist, if I place the desired text in the field with the <varies> text, it changes the properties of ALL the files to read Soundtrack - <varies> (it actually says <varies>). Any ideas? If anyone does, I would appreciate it. Thanks all!
phatrabt
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Well, what field do you want that first part to be?
I'm not sure I understand what you're asking. Just by looking at those 3 examples, it looks like Genre - Artist - Name, but you just said you don't want to use (all of) them for genre, so what do you want to use that first part in?
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Thanks for replying Doof! Here's some examples that I have:
Soundtrack - TV - Sesame Street - Ernie - I Don't Want to Live On the Moon.mp3
I can use GENRE and that will provide the Soundtrack portion. But for the rest I have to manually enter it into the tag since MJ won't take all the fields. This is what I meant in my first post.
As for the second, is therea way that MJ will recognize that <varies> means to leave the original text alone. Any more suggestions? Again, thanks Doof!
phatrabt
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I'm still not sure I understand.
What field do you want Soundtrack to be placed into?
What field do you want TV to be placed into?
Sesame Street?
Ernie?
etc.?
Once you have that figured out, then it shouldn't be too hard to get MJ to do it for you. Unless you want to create some custom fields like Artist 2 or Sub-Album, in which case, I don't know that MJ can do that yet.
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OK, let me try to explain ;) :
Using the above example:
Soundtrack - TV - Sesame Street - Ernie - I Don't Want to Live On the Moon.mp3
I want the fields to look like the following:
Artist: Soundtrack - TV - Sesame Street - Ernie
Name: I Don't Want to Live On the Moon
Genre: Soundtrack
Now if I'm starting from a blank tag, I would like to make the fields fill in like the above. If I use the [IGNORE] statement, it just ignores the text that I want to put in there. If I use
[ARTIST]-[NAME] it only gives the fields like this:
Artist: Soundtrack
Name: TV
Genre: Soundtrack
I want to be able to include ALL the info in the filename. Is there an [INCLUDE] statement? Kind of like the opposite of [IGNORE]? That would allow the flexibility that I'm looking for with the tagging. Thanks!
Actually, the ability to have multiple instances of a Field woould solveit. Using that theory, I could use:
[ARTIST]-[ARTIST]-[ARTIST]-[ARTIST]-[NAME]
Although I would have to fill in the GENRE field, I can live with that. Suggestions? Comments?
phatrabt
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Matt,
Another question I had was if I select multiple files for editing and want to add a field (ie Soundtrack, Genre, etc) to the Artist, if I place the desired text in the field with the <varies> text, it changes the properties of ALL the files to read Soundtrack - <varies> (it actually says <varies>).
Would it be possible to have this implemented? I mean, to have MJ NOT show <varies> and actually show the text that was there? Thanks!
phatrabt
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I'm thinking that the problem here is that you are using the same field separator where you don't want fields separated. The trouble is in your original filenames.
Example:
To get this:
Soundtrack - TV - Sesame Street - Ernie - I Don't Want to Live On the Moon.mp3
to look something like the following:
Artist: Soundtrack - TV - Sesame Street - Ernie
Name: I Don't Want to Live On the Moon
Genre: Soundtrack
You could start with
Soundtrack - Soundrack; TV; Sesame Street; Ernie - I Don't Want to Live On the Moon.mp3
and use the parsing format GENRE-ARTIST-NAME
to look like the following:
Artist: Soundtrack; TV; Sesame Street; Ernie
Name: I Don't Want to Live On the Moon
Genre: Soundtrack
I think the problem is not in the importing of information, but in the original organization of the information.