First of all let me say MP3Tag is great! Many thanks to florian.
This is my first attempt with export configuration files, but I hope this will be useful to someone.
I usually have an artist directory and each album in its own subdir with a cover.jpg thumbnail and a playlist.m3u file in it. So I would like to have an export configuration file with which I can create a complete report of my collection.
After some tries with the export configuration files I've found on the site, I've chosen to modify dano's cd2html to add a loop over the full collection and the jpg image for each album.
This is the result:
html_squonk.zip (1.37 KB) the export configuration file
MP3List.html (28.3 KB) Preview
But I was not satisfied with it; I would like to have more flexibility, like the ability to change the report layout without regenerating the full export from MP3Tag.
So I've created an XML mte, with which you can export your tags and use different XSL stylesheets to change the layout of your html report.
The structure of the XML is simple:
MP3List
artist
album
track
Each node contains other info which are taken from the MP3Tag export fields.
The second and third lines of the xml files are commented out. Each line refers to a xsl stylesheet that is used to format the output. You can uncomment the line with the stylesheet you want to use or you can create a new one and use it.
For this to work you need to put the xml file in the same directory of the xsl.
All hyperlinks in the formatted output use relative paths.
This is an XML sample Preview
MP3List.xml (34.3 KB)
xml_squonk.zip (3.22 KB)
The zip file contains the xsl_squonk.mte with two xsl stylesheets:
the first one, XSL_simple.xsl creates an HTML similar to the html_newexport.mte file
the second, XSL_squonk.xsl creates an HTML similar to the html_squonk.mte.
That's all!
Your comments are welcome...
xml_squonk.zip (3.22 KB)
html_squonk.zip (1.37 KB)
MP3List.html (28.3 KB)
MP3List.xml (34.3 KB)