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Author Topic: Make a column show VBR for vbr files instead of average bitrate.  (Read 2445 times)

zirum

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Make a column show VBR for vbr files instead of average bitrate.
« 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).
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Re: Make a column show VBR for vbr files instead of average bitrate.
« Reply #1 on: January 06, 2007, 12:12:20 pm »
why?

I don't see why anyone would want this.
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Re: Make a column show VBR for vbr files instead of average bitrate.
« Reply #2 on: January 06, 2007, 12:25:40 pm »
Try adding the tag Compression to your custom view.
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Re: Make a column show VBR for vbr files instead of average bitrate.
« Reply #3 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):



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



Would be nice if the default enabled grouping.

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

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Re: Make a column show VBR for vbr files instead of average bitrate.
« Reply #4 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!
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Re: Make a column show VBR for vbr files instead of average bitrate.
« Reply #5 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...
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Re: Make a column show VBR for vbr files instead of average bitrate.
« Reply #6 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?
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Re: Make a column show VBR for vbr files instead of average bitrate.
« Reply #7 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  ;)
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