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Title: Tags in file
Post by: Marty3d on December 23, 2006, 03:29:43 pm

I've copied some audio files from MC at home to my laptop. Now I wanted to see my custom tag Mood (created and used at home), but I noticed I didn't had a clue on how to.
I tried creating a user field with the same properties as my Mood field, but nothing showed there. So now I think that MC at home perhaps stores the tag in the library, not in the file. How do one check that?

Any bright ideas on this topic?

Thanks and a Merry Christmas!

Title: Re: Tags in file
Post by: lalittle on December 23, 2006, 06:45:16 pm

To check whether or not your custom "mood" tag is set to be stored in the file, go to Tools > Options > Library & Folders > User Library Fields.  Select your custom "mood" field from the list and select "Edit field."  This will bring up a window where you can edit the properties of this field.  In the "Data" section, there is an option to "Store in file tags (when possible.)"  This is what you need to have checked in order to have the tag stored in the file rather than just in the library.

Larry

Title: Re: Tags in file
Post by: marko on December 24, 2006, 02:56:56 am

and, after selecting the above option, you should select all files and do an "update tags from library" on them to get existing 'mood' tags saved in the files.

Title: Re: Tags in file
Post by: Marty3d on December 25, 2006, 02:50:26 am

Thanks a bunch!

Related question: In MC11, you could get a list of all tags in a file (somewhere in AW). This feature doesn't seem to exist in MC12, or am I just stupid?

/Martin

Title: Re: Tags in file
Post by: marko on December 25, 2006, 07:45:47 am

Stupid? You? I don't think so...

OK, it's now located under the "format" field. So, if you can see that, click on it to see the old "file type info" stuff, and if you can't see "format", then right click follow the 'also show' menu, find and click on, 'format', and then, once it's shown in the tag window, click on it to view it's contents.

Happy Christmas btw, hope Santa was good to you. It's taken me ages to type this through a "Croft Original" and "MacAllen 10 yr old, oak matured, single malt" induced haze.... hic ;) :D

-marko.

Title: Re: Tags in file
Post by: Marty3d on December 25, 2006, 08:05:09 am

marko, you're too kind when you're drunk :)

Thanks, I found it...was a bit confused at first, but then I realized I tried to view tags for a LS streaming file :)

Hope your Christmas is good as well, it sure sounds so.