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More => Old Versions => JRiver Media Center 19 for Windows => Topic started by: Sapagrino on January 04, 2014, 08:01:24 am

Title: Displaying TMED in a column in MC
Post by: Sapagrino on January 04, 2014, 08:01:24 am

My file contains the following standard tag:

Uncompressed Audio File (aif)
44.1 kHz, 16 bit, 2 ch

ID3v2.3 Tag: (137686 bytes)

  TMED: CD (Lossless)

How can I get the TMED frame's value ("CD (Lossless)") to appear in a MC column?

I tried a user field "TMED" as well as checked the existing "Media Type" MC field, but those don't do it. 

(I "updated library from tags", of course)

Thanks.

Title: Re: Displaying TMED in a column in MC
Post by: Sapagrino on January 04, 2014, 08:24:28 am

Similarly, how can I create a MC column to display the "TENC" frame tag?  I tried "Encoded by" and "ENC" to no avail.  Thanks.

Uncompressed Audio File (aif)
44.1 kHz, 16 bit, 2 ch

ID3v2.3 Tag: (137686 bytes)

  TENC: dBpoweramp Release 14.4

Title: Re: Displaying TMED and TENC in a column in MC
Post by: Sapagrino on January 13, 2014, 06:15:34 am

Bump.  Is it possible for MC to display an aif file's TENC and TMED frames' values?  If it is simply not possible, please let me know that.  Thank you very much.

Title: Re: Displaying TMED in a column in MC
Post by: magnust on January 13, 2014, 11:27:12 pm

Wouldn't the fields:

Tag(TMED)

and

Tag(TENC)

work?

Title: Re: Displaying TMED in a column in MC
Post by: Sapagrino on January 14, 2014, 08:21:22 am

Thank you for your reply.  I wasn't certain what you meant, so I tried a user field literally called "Tag(TMED)" and also tried an Expression where I selected the Tag function and put "TMED" inside the parens.   Neither approach worked.  Did I misunderstand your proposed solution? Thanks.

Title: Re: Displaying TMED in a column in MC
Post by: JimH on January 14, 2014, 09:42:48 am

The name of any added field must match exactly.  Try an Internet search to see what the name should be.

Title: Re: Displaying TMED in a column in MC
Post by: vagskal on January 15, 2014, 05:06:19 pm

I do not think MC can import those defined ID3v2 tags (if they do not get automatically imported, then MC currently does not support them). Tags (frames) of custom type TXXX can be imported and MC supports many other ID3v2 tags.

You could use an external tool like MP3Tag to copy the data from the defined tags to custom TXXX tags that can be imported into MC. This would involve changing the meta data in the actual music files.

Title: Re: Displaying TMED in a column in MC
Post by: MrC on January 15, 2014, 07:32:48 pm

I wrote a pscriptor (http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=85990.0) scriplet to grab an IDV3 frame's value if you're interested.

I placed the values TMED or TENC in a field such as Comments, and let 'er rip:

$ perl ./pscriptor.pl  -c pscriptor-config.txt  -f 'Comment' -E GetIDV3Tag -t
File: /Users/MrC/Desktop/test files/1.mp3
        old(comment): 'TMED'
        new(comment): 'CD Lossless'
File: /Users/MrC/Desktop/test files/2.mp3
        old(comment): 'TENC'
        new(comment): 'dBpoweramp Release 14.4'

Title: Re: Displaying TMED in a column in MC
Post by: vagskal on January 15, 2014, 11:47:20 pm

That is clever, MrC, and would not involve changing the music files, only the MC database.

Title: Re: Displaying TMED in a column in MC
Post by: MrC on January 16, 2014, 01:07:16 pm

Thanks.  As I see these sorts of questions/challenges, I like to see how it might be done with pscriptor, to test its use cases.  This one was less than 10 lines of new code.