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More => Old Versions => Media Center 12 (Development Ended) => Topic started by: zirum on January 06, 2007, 08:41:57 am

Title: Make a column show VBR for vbr files instead of average bitrate.
Post by: zirum on January 06, 2007, 08:41:57 am

Is there a way of making a column show 'VBR' instead of the average bitrate when dealing with vbr files?

I still would like to view the bitrate on CBR files, but this is not a must (since a expression can fix this for me).

Title: Re: Make a column show VBR for vbr files instead of average bitrate.
Post by: KingSparta on January 06, 2007, 12:12:20 pm

why?

I don't see why anyone would want this.

Title: Re: Make a column show VBR for vbr files instead of average bitrate.
Post by: Magic_Randy on January 06, 2007, 12:25:40 pm

Try adding the tag Compression to your custom view.

Title: Re: Make a column show VBR for vbr files instead of average bitrate.
Post by: kurros on January 07, 2007, 02:04:15 am

Quote from: KingSparta on January 06, 2007, 12:12:20 pm

why?

I don't see why anyone would want this.

Probably because of the uselessness of this (one of the default view presets):

(http://www.geekport.com/files/mc_bpmpane.png)

But there is an easy fix. You can check the "Grouping" box and a range (say 33). So it looks like this:

(http://www.geekport.com/files/mc_bpmpane_grouped.png)

Would be nice if the default enabled grouping.

(These screenshots I had around for BPM, but the same applies to Bitrate)

Title: Re: Make a column show VBR for vbr files instead of average bitrate.
Post by: zirum on January 07, 2007, 01:03:43 pm

Quote from: KingSparta on January 06, 2007, 12:12:20 pm

why?

I don't see why anyone would want this.

Actually, i don't use the column. But I have this habitt of naming my album folder in this format "[Artist] - [Album] (bitrate)".

It would save me alot of work to do this by the library -> "rename files...". But it doesn't get very pretty with the [bitrate] value, as i guess you can see.

But I missed the compression tag. Should not be to much work writing an expression with this. Thanks, Magic Randy!

Title: Re: Make a column show VBR for vbr files instead of average bitrate.
Post by: Magic_Randy on January 07, 2007, 01:09:30 pm

Quote from: zirum on January 07, 2007, 01:03:43 pm

But I missed the compression tag.

The compression tag is not very obvious.  Good luck...

Title: Re: Make a column show VBR for vbr files instead of average bitrate.
Post by: zirum on January 08, 2007, 12:06:54 am

Here's the expression if anyone care's:)
If(IsEqual(Mid([Compression],0,3),CBR,1),[Bitrate],Mid([Compression],0,3))

Now I found that I have some tracks with compression other than 56, 64, 96, 128, 192, 256, 320... How can that be? Corrupted files?

Title: Re: Make a column show VBR for vbr files instead of average bitrate.
Post by: tcman41 on January 08, 2007, 08:40:47 am

This is the beauty of MC12, complete customization to user preference, i agree with the others, this topic seems useless to me but if that is what you desire than more power to you. Seems to me a simple search could solve this problem as well but whatever...

TC  ;)