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More => Old Versions => JRiver Media Center 18 for Windows => Topic started by: Fabrice on February 22, 2013, 06:03:15 pm

Title: Bios Field
Post by: Fabrice on February 22, 2013, 06:03:15 pm

Still in the process of setting up my JRiver 18 in the way it used to work before my computer crash / total rebuild.

This time, I cannot get my "Bios" field to display the biographies I have for the 1000s of artists that I have in my database. I have added "Bios" under Options / Library & Folders / Manage Library Fields / Add New Field as a Large Value String (my Biographies can run into 100s of words) and added "Bios" as a display field. Running an "auto import" or updating selected files from Tags to try things out still leaves the "Bios" field blank.

Should I be doing anything else? How can I check whether this field is saved in the tag of my files? And if they are not saved in the files themselves, where could I find them?

I have various older libraries backups from prior to the rebuilding of my PC that I could revert to, if necessary, all the way from JRiver 17 to JRiver 11 (which is when I sent up the Bios field in the first place)

I am running the latest build (136)

Title: Re: Bios Field
Post by: MrC on February 22, 2013, 06:08:53 pm

Can you show the Tag Dump (http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=59513.msg430491#msg430491) for one of the tracks with a Bios tag?  You can copy/paste the entire dump here.

Title: Re: Bios Field
Post by: Fabrice on February 23, 2013, 02:39:08 am

Thanks for the help offer. Here is one example:

Monkey's Audio 3.99 (high)
Format: 44.1 kHz, 16 bit, 2 ch
Length: 3:56
Compression: 28.81% (11.5 MB / 39.8 MB)
Tag: APE Tag 2.00 (54017 bytes)
   Track: 11
   Year: 1985
   Genre: Classical
   Artist: Schubert
   Peak Level: 0.87668
   Tool Version: 11.1.201
   Title: Frühlingstraum
   Media Jukebox: BPM: 60
   Tool Name: Media Center
   Comment: Exact Audio Copy
   Media Jukebox: Date: 31048
   Media Jukebox: Intensity: 1
   Replay Gain (radio): -4.50488
   Album: Winterreise / Fischer-Dieskau, Brendel
   Lyrics: <too large to display>
   Cover Art (front): <too large to display>


cannot see the Bios field. I used to use JRiver 11 to do most of my tagging including filling in the Bios field. I would then update the library in whatever was the latest JRiver version.

Title: Re: Bios Field
Post by: mbagge on February 23, 2013, 11:06:37 am

Is it possible that the Bios tag only existed in the MC database and not as part of the tagging of the file ?
I think you should go for one of your library backups.

Title: Re: Bios Field
Post by: MrC on February 23, 2013, 12:17:21 pm

Right, so it appears that the BIOS tag was not written to the files.  You'll have to dig out your old version of MC's backed-up library and restore to capture this information.   I'm not sure how many versions back the current MC will read.