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More => Old Versions => Media Center 11 (Development Ended) => Topic started by: Charlemagne 8 on February 03, 2004, 05:22:33 pm

Title: Smartlist Help?
Post by: Charlemagne 8 on February 03, 2004, 05:22:33 pm

Does anybody know of a way to build a smartlist that shows VBR MP3 only?

CVIII

Title: Re:Smartlist Help?
Post by: KingSparta on February 03, 2004, 05:23:59 pm

i don't think you can do that since that info is not kept in the database.

Title: Re:Smartlist Help?
Post by: Charlemagne 8 on February 03, 2004, 05:36:42 pm

Is it in the tag? Can it be put there?

Title: Re:Smartlist Help?
Post by: KingSparta on February 03, 2004, 05:41:49 pm

I think when you pull it up to look at the properties MC pulls that info up.

it is not really a tag it is part of the header that needs to be decoded.

i have some of this info on my http server here is a link

http://www.spartasoft.com/mpeg/index2.htm (http://www.spartasoft.com/mpeg/index2.htm)

yes a plug-in can be made to read the mp3's and save this info into a field, at that point you could then make a smartlist.


Listening to: 'I Ain't Mad Atcha' by 'Chris Standring' on Media Center 10

Title: Re:Smartlist Help?
Post by: GrumpyNick on February 04, 2004, 03:11:33 am

All my VBR MP3s are ripped at a high quality, whereas most of my normal MP3s are 128 KB/s so it's easy to configure a search to only look for bitrates > 128

Hope this helps

Listening to "Big Railroad Blues" by The Grateful Dead

Title: Re:Smartlist Help?
Post by: JaWe on February 04, 2004, 09:49:08 am

Quote from: GrumpyNick on February 04, 2004, 03:11:33 am

All my VBR MP3s are ripped at a high quality, whereas most of my normal MP3s are 128 KB/s so it's easy to configure a search to only look for bitrates > 128

I have some files that are ripped at VBR extreme and MC shows bitrate 112..?
I think it calcultes averige bitrate or shows the bitrate of the first frames of VBR file  

Title: Re:Smartlist Help?
Post by: Matt on February 04, 2004, 09:51:12 am

MC should always show the correct average bitrate.  Divide the file size by the seconds to double-check. (multiply by 8 so you have bits)

If you ever find a file that MC fails to analyze properly, please send it to us.

You could create a new library field and fill it in by hand.  A search like -[Bitrate]=128 will get you most of the way there, so it'll only take a minute or two.