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More => Old Versions => Media Center 11 (Development Ended) => Topic started by: sirshambling on September 16, 2005, 12:29:59 pm
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I'm looking for a field to put the label of the music tracks that I've got - Chess, Atlantic, Stax and so on - but can't seem find a suitable candidate in "customize current view".
Where do you all put this info?
TIA. John.
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Probably best to create a 'Custom Field' in:
Tools -> Options -> Library
You can then add it in 'Customise Current View'.
Hope this helps.
David
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Thanks yes it does.
Yet another example of my ignorance of MC - despite the fact that I've used it for several years. Just toooooo much functionality for a simple minded soul....
John.
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I know what you mean I started with MJ7 and still only use MC in a very limited way compared to the 'experts'.
It's like MS Word/Excel, etc. I only use about 5% of the 'features' and just learn about the ones I need!.
I do find the custom fields very useful though for tracking various bits of information.
David
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David,
Now I know about this feature I can think of several ways it will be useful.
Thanks again.
John
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I have these fields visible in my "Details" view schemes. There a few custom fields too.
(http://www.adart.fi/mc/pix/fieldssmall.png)
Click to see the full size image. (http://www.adart.fi/mc/pix/fieldsbig.png)
I scrolled the view horizontally between the screen shot slices.
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Alex,
Amazing! Not just the amount of detail but the effort that's gone into data input.
I can see that I'm a complete beginner here!
John
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I understood "label" was a standard (extra) field in ID3v2?
ie from the standard -
"TPUB
The 'Publisher' frame simply contains the name of the label or publisher."
Does MC support this?
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Anyone?
Currently I have label info in comments, but I'd like to put them in publisher field, just can't see that MC supports this though, even though some other programs I use do.
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the silence is deafening! I guess the answer is no.
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You could have tested this for us. I tried it and the answer is no. MC doesn't write TPUB tags.
MC supports many usual ID3v2 tags and some not so usual, like Band/Orchestra (TPE2), Composer (TCOM) or Conductor/Performer (TPE3), but it doesn't support all ID3v2 tags. Here is how I discovered that MC supports the Original Artist (TOPE) field too: http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=29081.0
You can define any custom fields in MC, but naturally other applications don't understand them similarly in case the fields are defined to be saved in the MP3 files.
I don't need a full ID3v2 support. It is enough for me that the basic tags like, Artist, Album, Name, Track #, Genre and Year are used similarly with other applications. MC is my main tagger and database application. I never handle those special tags outside MC.
In any case I have a lot of files in my library that use other tagging standards, like APE tags, Vorbis comments, Windows Media tags or don't support any physical file tags, like wave, cue, video and document files.
I am quite satisfied with the situation, except that I still have not got a shortcut key and a toolbar button for the library backup even though I have requested them. ;) Please, JRiver. :)
Though, it wouldn't hurt to to check and perhaps add some ID3 mappings next time the MP3 plug-in is touched.
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Thanks Alex B. I thought the answer was no, But thought I might be overlooking something. I do all my tagging outside of MC and now only update the library from tags. I'm not keen to put info into library fields that won't/can't be read by other applications.
Anyway it would be a good addition to a future version to have compatibility with TPUB if possible.
thanks.