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Musicbrainz support

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 04:54:34 +0200

I'm trying to tag my album Sweet - Greatest Hits. the thing is that Greatest Hits is a very common album name and when i use the tag source musicbrainz, it returns with the maximum of 40 results. i even went to change the application data (c:/ -> Application Data\Mp3tag\data\sources) to 100 results and even then the results don't show. if i try any more than 100, it shows only 25 results.

any way to fix this? and yes the album im looking for exists (http://musicbrainz.org/release/711d8559-b049-4502-9732-e5587836b829.html)

UI Customization

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 03:39:05 +0200

Most of us have grown accustomed to applications that allow us to change the buttons on the tool bars. Can we get that capability in the next release? I'd like to be able to add things from under the tag sources menu and from under the tools menu so that I can make them a 1 click action, especially for things I do frequently. ie I'd be happy as a pig in stuff if I could click a button for lyricwiki tagging instead of traversing menus.

Amazon MP3 Albums

Mon, 06 Sep 2010 00:02:27 +0200

Hi, everyone! (Tach, zusammen!)

First, an unavoidable stream of praise for this astounding program. It is one of the rare tools where you think at some point: "Now I could use this special function", then poke around in the menues and discover that the special function is already there!

Absolutely amazing!

And now to something completely different: I am playing around with the Amazon.de source file and thought I could add support for MP3 albums. I tagged a row of albums this afternoon and discovered that one of them is not in "Music" but only in "MP3Download".

Changing "SearchIndex" to "MP3Downloads" is working O.K., the album is found; but there are no tracks given in the response for ItemLookup.
After digging in the Amazon WS API it turned out you have to query for the ASINs of the album first, and then get the track title by querying each track ASIN separately. I think I can assume this is not covered by the mp3tag script structure; if I get it right, only two calls to URLs are possible.

Then I thought I could just use the preview URL instead of the Webservice for the track title list. But when I changed [AlbumUrl] to "http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/" and tried to run it with the data, I get a strange DNS error when selecting an entry in the search result window. Is it possible that there is additional data appended to the URL like access key, signature etc. in the background?

You would need that for the webservice obviously, but my AlbumUrl is plain http, right?

Here is the error message box:
http://www.draisberghof.de/files/fehler_amazon.png

Thanks!

Hey Folks I Need Help in Trimming Feature

Sun, 05 Sep 2010 20:36:13 +0200

Topic : Filename Trim
Current Filename : 01 - Manassil - Campus Dreamz.mp3
Target Filename : Manassil.mp3

I have already yelled for help in forums but the answer was as complicated as Einstein's String Theory

This time i expect the answer to be user friendly

ThanX in Advance

Unattended Tagging

Sun, 05 Sep 2010 02:41:41 +0200

Is there a way to tell MP3Tag to go ahead and keep tagging, even though one file failed? In other words, don't stop to ask if its "ok" to continue - just continue?

How to Normalize the Dates

Sun, 05 Sep 2010 02:10:47 +0200

I have about 10,000 files and I want to make the year look like this

(1984)

Currently they look like this

(1984.07)
(1977.12.31)
(1988.05)

How do I make them all just keep the year they currently have and eliminate the rest. I just want them all to look like this

(1988)

Thanks

All file types?

Sat, 04 Sep 2010 21:56:57 +0200

In the 'Restrict incoming files to' option can someone please tell me what filter you should use so any file type can be used? Ie so no file type is restricted.

Thanks.

Lost Shell Extension

Sat, 04 Sep 2010 13:31:17 +0200

I've grown used to using the shell extension i.e "right Click"/MP3Tag to open folders. It just disappeared today, granted it's a new installation of Win 7 x64 but the extension was there, but then disappeared. I guess I can just reinstall the program but I'd like to know why it went away and how to get it back w/o re-installation. Thanks

Feature Request -- Web Source Errors

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 15:22:15 +0200

Hi,

I have 2 requests which will make Web Source development and Usage more predictable:

1) Today, from an end-user's point of view, if there is an error in retrieving some information from a source (for whatever reason), the user can only be notified of this by looking at the last tag in the "additional information" box of the "Adjust Tag Information" pop-up. This is an issue when there are many tags in that box, resulting in the user having to scroll to the very bottom to ensure none of the tags say "error."

Can we please have a place in that window where it would show clearly that an error occurred in the script? That will allow the user to either look for the error, or back-out. This makes the experience more user friendly.

2) Unless I'm totally missing it, there is no way to test if "findinline" command did not find what I was looking for. If it doesn't, the script errors out. Can we be allowed to check for the return value of findinline, or some other way of ensuring that findinline actually found what we were searching for?
The "hack" workaround for this today is to use "findline" and then "findinline", but this means that we are MUCH more reliant on knowing the first string in that line (if the string we are searching for is NOT the first string). Otherwise, the scripts will fail with any change to the source.

Thanks,

[Actions] removing "www..." from filename

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 15:20:03 +0200

Hi All.

I Would like to remove "www." from mp3 filenames.

Exemple:

Artist - Title [www.somesite.com].mp3

I'd like to get:

Artist - Title.mp3

Is that possible to get this result using regular expressions, and how?

Still no M4V support?

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 20:22:03 +0200

Please please add .m4v support. Changing every extensions back and forth is tedious work.
I assume we are not iHaters, are we?

thanks

How do I generate a disc id tag?

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:15:34 +0200

I use Disc ID in folder name to identify folders. If I try a freedb lookup, it will obviously calculate the ID, but -- it seems -- that unless the disc is in freedb, it won't write it to tag.

Is there any action which will generate the value AND tag it?

New Feature: Edit WAV file tags

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 23:23:22 +0200

MP3Tag Feature Request: Please add the ability to edit tags in WAV files.

Background Information: Every week, I create one or two Audacity projects. Each project produces ~200 audio files (~100 WAV files for archival CDs and the same number of MP3 files for my music server).

When saving (exporting) WAV files, Audacity v1.3.x puts metadata tags in each WAV file, just as it does when saving MP3s. Then, when I use Nero Burning ROM to create an Audio CD from those WAV files, the Title and Artist tags appear automatically in the respective CD Text fields.

To write the tags on all of those MP3 files, I use a pipe-delimited text file with MP3Tag's "Convert > Text file - Tag" command; this feature is GREAT (that is why I donated )! If MP3Tag could also do this with my WAV files, I would gladly donate again.

Thank you again for MP3Tag,
Rich

Getting cover art for multiple singles in one folder

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 19:36:03 +0200

Hi,

I have a folder with around 1000 singles (from various artists & albums).
The ARTIST & ALBUM tag fields of all the singles are empty, and basically the only tag info on the mp3 files is the title which is identical to the file name - set up as ARTIST - SONG_NAME.mp3

Now I would like to add cover art for every single file automatically. Is that possible?

Help With a Regular Expression please...

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 21:38:20 +0200

Hi guys,

Could you please help me with a regular expression please? I'm trying to pull the list of Producers from IMDB's combined page? (see below as an example):

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0126029/combined

I have this so far, but it's not working:

findline "Produced by" 1 1
unspace
if "

"
findinline "Produced by"
outputto "PRODUCERS"
joinuntil ""
sayregexp "/\">[^<]+(?=<)" "@@" ""

Thanks in advance folks!

Copying A Subset of Tag Fields From One File To Another

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 20:48:55 +0200

I am re-ripping a chunk of my FLACs using an Accurate Rip-enabled program: dbPowerAmp.
The FLACs I'm replacing are all perfectly tagged so I want to copy the tags from the old FLACs to the new Accurate Ripped FLACs. Of course that can easily be done with the Tag Copy feature. The problem is that I don't want to overwrite my Accurate Rip and ReplayGain related tags in the new FLACs.

Is there a scripting method to control which tag fields to include or exclude when doing a tag copy?

The only thing I found that might work is that Export feature, but I'm looking for something easier.

Thanks.

AlbumUrl question

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 17:37:45 +0200

Hi,

As far as I can tell, the AlbumUrl is used by appending the URL result from first search pass to it.

My question is this... I want to access the below (as an example) page:

www.imdb.com/title/tt0330373/combined

the key being the "combined" page, as it contains more details than the "normal" page.

My current setup, based on Dano's work has:

[Name]=imdb.com
[BasedOn]=www.imdb.com
[IndexUrl]=http://www.imdb.com/find?s=tt&q=%s
[AlbumUrl]=http://www.imdb.com/title/
[WordSeperator]=%20
[IndexFormat]=%_url%|%Title%|%Year%|%Description%
[SearchBy]=%title%

Is there any way for me to get to the "combined" page?

Thanks,

"www" tag is not read & written correctly in v 2.46b

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 02:26:25 +0200

The "www" tag causes massive problems at the newest mp3tag version (2.46b)!

In ID3v2.3-Tags www-tags are not read by mp3tag. Even with files which I have tagged with an earlier version of mp3tag (most of my files). The tags are still present, because I can read them with my mediaplayer (foobar2000).
When I edit these files with mp3tags the www tags get lost (they don't appear in foobar anymore).
When I write a new www tag with mp3tag, it simply disapears at saving.

I noticed by chance that ID3v2.2 & ID3v2.4 www tags are still read correctly by mp3tag. But when I edit them with mp3tag they are transformed to ID3v2.3 tags and the www tags get lost.

I also found a file with a ID2v2.3 (ID3v1 Lyrics3v2 ID3v2.3) with a www-tag displayed at mp3tag. At saving, the www-tag disapeared in mp3tag, but it is still there in foobar. The tag type ID2v2.2 (ID3v1 Lyrics3v2 ID3v2.3) is not altered to something else.
When i edit the www-tag in foobar, it re-apeares in mp3tag. But only if I edit the www-tag, not if I edit another tag in the same file. In both files, the tags are transformed into ID2v2.4 (ID3v1 Lyrics3v2 ID3v2.4) tags by foobar.

After more searching i found now some files with ID3v2.3 (ID3v1 ID3v2.3) tags with correctly displayed www-tags. At saving they disapear, but are still there in foobar.

So, putting all together I must say that I have no idea when the problem occures. But I'm sure it wasn't there in mp3tag 2.46a.
It's rather annoying, because I constantly loose information when i re-tag old files and I don't get full information when i run my web sources scripts which all write the www-tag. So I will use the v2.46a until this is solved.

Missing compilation

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 17:03:53 +0200

Hi, this is my first post here. I am new to this program.

My music folder contains albums in FLAC and WAV. I am having good results editing my FLAC tags but my complilation WAV albums do not show up in MP3TAG. I see these songs listed as unknown in Windows and on Squeezebox player.

I need to add tags to the unknown album but it is not visible in this program. I have pointed to this directory in MP3TAG. How can I add this type of file to MP3TAG?

odd values in some tags (how to fix?)

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 15:04:53 +0200

Hello, I have almost completed my library organization thanks to the great mp3tag (and of course thanks to you), but I have noticed there are some files with odd values in tags:
A lot of files have no LENGTH tag (right click on file and "Tags..."), and show 00:00 in length field on mp3tag and player, but they can be played fine (I use musicbee and wmp11). Those files usually have no bitrate or mode (mode field is empty, no "Stereo" or else) info in mp3tag. But many other files don't have length tag but show wrong length on mp3tag and player, and they can only be played till the player expects the end, even if there is song remaining, or don't play at all.

Are there any way to fix these values without re-ripping?

Also I realized that when I cut the tags of a group of files there appear other tags under them, cut tags are not empty. May be I cut id3v2 and ID3v1 tags are showing?
In mp3tag settings I have only enabled reading and writing ID3·v2, and removing id3v1 and APE. I'd like to have only id3v2.3 tags, so what should I do?
1- Select the file and use "remove tags". This will not remove id3v2 tags as this option is unselected or will it remove all tags?
2- Select files, cut tags, then remove tags, and finally paste cut tracks?

I thought right click on files, select "tags.." and remove unwanted fields would be enough, but I see it's not.

I wish somebody can help, thanks for your time.

By the way, Do you share your music library tags with any online service like cddb?
I think it would be nice that other people can do in seconds what I did in too many hours, once tried to share with cddb, but I think it is complicated and a bit useless, as adding or removing a tag will chage file's CRC and so it will no be a so automatic process.