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[Sapagrino]

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.

[Sapagrino]

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

[Sapagrino]

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.

[magnust]

Wouldn't the fields:

Tag(TMED)

and

Tag(TENC)

work?

[Sapagrino]

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.

[JimH]

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

[vagskal]

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.

[MrC]

I wrote a pscriptor 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'

[vagskal]

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

[MrC]

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.