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Luigi1943

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Track Info: is it a bug?
« on: January 11, 2006, 05:17:58 am »
I've posted the following help request in the developer forum, but unfortunately I've not received a solution for my dumb problem. I've now tried also with MC11, but the result is the same: the trackinfo dll does not translate "TrackInfo_Insert(Composer)", but leaves it as it is.
Thanks for any help from this forum.
Luigi

Posted by: Luigi1943  Posted on: January 08, 2006, 04:32:09 PM 
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I'm just starting to approach developing, and I've not been able to display the Composer field by changing in the existing Track Info (DJ). the Genre Field with the Composer Field: no success.
It was Ok when I replaced Genre with Comment.
What am I missing?
Tks for any help
I'm using MC10
Luigi
Tks for the answers, however "TrackInfo_Insert(Composer)" is just what I've tried to use without success (while, for instance, "TrackInfo_Insert(Comment)" works).
In addition I don't understand how should I use "#define MF_COMPOSER            _T("Composer")".
Any other hint?
Tks
Luigi 
Posted by: Alex B  Posted on: January 10, 2006, 12:42:06 PM 
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Could this do it?

Quote from:
http://www.jrmediacenter.com/DevZone/Track%20Info.html  >
Insert Functions  >
TrackInfo_Insert(field name)  >
http://www.jrmediacenter.com/DevZone/MJFields.h  >


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#define MF_COMPOSER            _T("Composer")
Posted by: Mr ChriZ  Posted on: January 10, 2006, 12:28:06 PM 
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Looking here
http://www.jrmediacenter.com/DevZone/Track%20Info.html

Composer is not available :-S
 
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Re: Track Info (please help a beginner)
« Reply #1 on: January 11, 2006, 06:28:56 am »
Strange that TrackInfo_Insert(Composer) does not work.

As a test I made this templete:

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<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-us">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">
<title>Composer</title>
</head>
<body>
  <b>Title: </b>TRACKINFO_INSERT_TITLE<br>
  <b>Name: </b>TrackInfo_Insert(Name)<br>
  <b>Filename: </b>TrackInfo_Insert(Filename)<br>
  <b>Compression: </b>TrackInfo_Insert(Compression)<br>
  <b>Image File: </b>TrackInfo_Insert(Image File)<br>
  <b>Composer: </b>TrackInfo_Insert(Composer)<br>
  <b>Date Created: </b>TrackInfo_Insert(Date Created)
</body>
</html>
The other fields work, but not Composer. Also, TRACKINFO_INSERT_TITLE and TrackInfo_Insert(Name) can both be used.
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Re: Track Info (please help a beginner)
« Reply #2 on: January 11, 2006, 07:28:02 am »
Not only Composer doesn't work. I've also tried CUSTOM1, which doesn't work.
Tks, Alex
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Re: Track Info: is it a bug?
« Reply #3 on: January 17, 2006, 03:07:13 am »
The test made by Alex B shows that the problem of not showing Composer and other fields such as Custom 1 (all extended fields???) is possibly a bug.
Is there any plan to correct it?
Thanks
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Re: Track Info: is it a bug?
« Reply #4 on: January 18, 2006, 09:17:32 pm »
What version of ID3 have you used to tag your files?  I have been using this functionality for a while to display the composer and it still works fine for me.

For example, I have just modified the index.html under ...Visualizations\Track Info\DJ to include the following:

              <tr>
                <td width="25%" valign="top"><font class="text1">Composer:</font></td>
                <td width="75%">
              <font class="text2">TrackInfo_Insert(Composer)</font></td>
              </tr>     

This works fine to display the composer tag in all of my classical music mp3's (using ID3v2.3)
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Re: Track Info: is it a bug?
« Reply #5 on: January 19, 2006, 02:33:40 am »
I don't know what version of ID3 I'm using: I do all my tagging with Media Center 10 and have not been able to find an option to to select the version of ID3.

As a quick test I've modified DJ to display the composer in place of the Artist and the result is:
Title:  Mozart-Idomeneo2-20-Se il padre perdei
Artist: TRACKINFO_INSERT(Composer)
Album: Idomeneo, re di Creta
Year: 1991
Genre: Opera


Please HELP!
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Re: Track Info: is it a bug?
« Reply #6 on: January 29, 2006, 03:54:45 pm »
It seems the problem is fixed. I tried this templete with MC11.1.108:

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<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-us">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">
<title>Composer</title>
</head>
<body>
  <b>Artist: </b>TrackInfo_Insert(Artist)<br>
  <b>Album: </b>TrackInfo_Insert(Album)<br>
  <b>Name: </b>TrackInfo_Insert(Name)<br>
  <b>Composer: </b>TrackInfo_Insert(Composer)<br>
  <b>Date: </b>TrackInfo_Insert(Date)<br>
  <b>Filename: </b>TrackInfo_Insert(Filename)<br>
  <b>Date Created: </b>TrackInfo_Insert(Date Created)<br>
  <b>Compression: </b>TrackInfo_Insert(Compression)<br>
  <b>Lossless Archived: </b>TrackInfo_Insert(Lossless Archived)<br>
</body>
The display looks now like this:

Artist: Aldo Ciccolini
Album: Erik Satie - Piano Works
Name: Sports Et Divertissements, Le Reveil de la Mariee
Composer: Eric Satie
Date: 1992
Filename: X:\Aldo Ciccolini\Eric Satie - Piano Works\CD2 - 08 - Sports Et Divertissements, Le Reveil de la Mariee.mp3
Date Created: 11.10.2003 19:13
Compression: VBR (MPEG-1 Layer 3)
Lossless Archived: ape & cue


BTW, the tag version doesn't matter. The info comes from the database.
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Re: Track Info: is it a bug?
« Reply #7 on: January 29, 2006, 05:26:11 pm »
I've tried your script in MC10.... and it works!!!!!!!!!
Thanks, Alex, I'm so happy!
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Re: Track Info: is it a bug?
« Reply #8 on: January 29, 2006, 05:34:11 pm »
Why am I happy? I have a very large classical music collection and 1338 composers are present....
Of course I can't remember who those 1338 composers are, and I'm going to use the composer tag to point to a biography data base, in order to show, when playing something, who the composer was...
I've not digitalized yet the biographies, but obviously I didn't want to store the biography of Mozart in my 1320 Mozart files, but store it only once!
Tks again, Alex
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Re: Track Info: is it a bug?
« Reply #9 on: May 19, 2006, 02:38:39 am »
This sounds like a great approach! I would love to see the finished product.
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Re: Track Info: is it a bug?
« Reply #10 on: May 19, 2006, 12:40:39 pm »
Quote from: confishy on May 19, 2006, 02:38:39 am
This sounds like a great approach! I would love to see the finished product.

I would either... unfortunately I couldn't work on my project yet , because my sail skipper activity is absorbing my time. But the idea is still one that I would like to work on, also because in the meanwhile my classical music collection is growing: for instance my Mozart files are now 1553....
When I'll have something new to communicate I'll post a message on the board.
Thanks, confishy, for the kind words
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