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More => Old Versions => Media Center 11 (Development Ended) => Topic started by: MrHaugen on November 29, 2006, 02:30:35 pm

Title: Advanced custom tag possible?
Post by: MrHaugen on November 29, 2006, 02:30:35 pm

I want to create a library field with options of many different styles/moods.
One song can have this options: Cheerfull;Funky;Electric;Normal;HeavyBass;Party.

Then I want to be able to select 1 or more of this and get an AND function in the search.
If I choose "Electric" I get all songs tagged as "Electric". If I choose "Electric" AND "Cheerfull" I get all songs containing "Electric" AND "Cheerfull". And so on.

Is this possible at all? I have never seen any fields using multiple data on each song. And I am also worried that I can't get the AND function I want. Only OR, like how it works when you use the wizard for choosing artists etc.

This might only be possible with the use of a plugin. And it's my intention to make one.
But I will not go furter, and risk working on it for hours, just to realize that it can't be done.

Title: Re: Advanced custom tag possible?
Post by: Mr ChriZ on November 30, 2006, 10:07:32 am

MC Does that no problem.
Also the search always does an AND search not an OR search,
if you just type in the search box.  If you're on the right view
you often find you don't need to specifically show certain fields.

If you do want to search on a specific field you can do it like this
[Arist]=Cold and [Artist]=play

Would bring up only Albums who had the words Cold and Play
in the title.

All you need to do is create a custom tag
Tools->Options->Library & Folders
There somewhere I'm using MC12 and I know it's moved around
Call it Music Style or something similar.
Make sure it's searchable.

Then view you're files in Pane mode.
Make sure the new tag is in the panes view. (Customize Current View)
Select a file and create a tag for it. (Press F4 to go into Tag Mode).

You can assign as many tags as you like to the field.
Cheerful, Electric, Normal etc.

Wallah.

I use this for all sorts of things.
No plugin required.

Title: Re: Advanced custom tag possible?
Post by: hit_ny on December 01, 2006, 04:19:06 am

I don't think you can choose more than one item from a list type field.

Your only way might be to create an oridnary string custom field and enter in there "Electric & Cheerful"

Or create two custom fields of list type, call them style and moods (i think the default mood filed is not of list type).

Then your search query becomes
[Style]=Electric [Moods]=Cheerful

The second option would allow you to find all cheerful music regardless of style, much more flexible.

Title: Re: Advanced custom tag possible?
Post by: marko on December 01, 2006, 04:30:32 am

you can do list types too....

[style]=electric,cheerful

would return all files where [style] contained, but not limited to, electric and cheerful, in much the same way as a search on the [people] field would work for images.

Title: Re: Advanced custom tag possible?
Post by: MrHaugen on December 03, 2006, 08:09:46 am

Great!

What a reliefe. I'll do a bigger test run in my library to se how exactly it works before I start on my GUI plugin.

Thanks alot to you all!