CustomFieldsTagger v1.0.3 [MM3+4]

by **Steegy** » Thu Aug 30, 2012 3:46 pm

Hello,

You could use MagicNodes and create a node with this mask:

Code: Select all: SomeCustomField|Position:First child\<SomeCustomField|Unknown:No|Split by:;>

where SomeCustomField is the field where you put the ArtistA;ArtistB.
I've been using this for a similar purpose: a custom field with instrumentA;instrumentB --> the track should show up under the nodes instrumentA and instrumentB.

Cheers,
Steegy

by **Guest** » Tue Aug 28, 2012 8:25 am

CustomFieldsTagger is exactly what I needed but I have a problem: is there a way to have multiple columns to show seperately in the column view? For example, if a song's artist is Artist A feat. Artist B, I'd like to have the song shown in both artist's artist view in the column list. I know that typing artist as "Artist A;Artist B" would do the trick, but I don't want to use this option, because other music players (and Last.fm for example) don't understand that, and it would just mess up my tags. I thought that I could fix this by typing "Artist A;Artist B" in the CUSTOM column (and thus keep the actual artist field as Artist A feat. Artist B) but the problem is that in the column view the result is "Artist A;Artist B" and not "Artist A" and "Artist B" separately as I expected.

I hope you understood what I meant! Any way to fix this?

by **Post-logiq** » Sun Jul 29, 2012 7:44 am

Hi,

Thank you Eyal!
That is indeed what I wanted to do. Now I am able to read and correct the existing fields which are not supported by MM.
Hopefully I will soon be able to move the information from LABEL to ORGANIZATION in order to comply with Vorbis 1 spec and MM (modifying the Swap script).

In MM I changed the custom fields 1 & 2 with LABEL and LABELNO and I gave them values on a few test files:

With FLAC files it works perfectly as it creates the fields with the exact name I gave them.

With MP3 files these fields are written as 'XXXSongs-DB_Custom1' and 'XXXSongs-DB_Custom2'.
So MM has rules to change the custom field depending on the id tag type.
The ideal situation would be to allow users to manage the field mapping for each id-tag type, eventually disallowing some fields per id-tag type...

Anyway I don't plan moving out from using the Publisher field on MP3 to store the label information, but I will continue struggling with my damn LABELNO field for a while as there is no "standard" field to handle it in id3 tags.

by **Eyal** » Sat Jul 28, 2012 9:04 pm

Post-logiq wrote:Is there a way to edit the custom field name, in addition to setting their value?
It seems the scripts only write values in CUSTOM1, CUSTOM2, ... fields.

Tools | Options | Library | Appearance -> Rename Custom Field Headings.

:~)

by **Post-logiq** » Sat Jul 28, 2012 11:56 am

Hi,

I just tried eCustom 2.1 and CustomField tagger. Thanks to their authors.

Is there a way to edit the custom field name, in addition to setting their value?

It seems the scripts only write values in CUSTOM1, CUSTOM2, ... fields.
I modified the FieldList and FieldListDB arrays in the CustomField tagger script but I had SQL errors trying to access non-existing properties in MM DB, such as LABEL or ORGANIZATION ("PUBLISHER" works obviously).

I am not an expert so I won't go further in understanding and editing the script. I think that MM and its DB would need to be modified internally to take into account any custom field set by users or other software rather than using predefined and software-specific CUSTOM# fields. The sames goes about reading tags from files.

I would like to manage the non-standard LABEL (=ORGANIZATION) and LABELNO (Catalog number) fields in MM and potentially any field on Vorbis comments (and id3 eventually).

In Vorbis comments the LABEL field is:
- Used exclusively by Tag & Rename to handle record label information (including LABELNO), no support of ORGANIZATION :-(

- preferred by dbPoweramp over ORGANIZATION if both fields are present. Some info hidden in specific conditions here :-(

- read/written by mp3tag with a total flexibility, provided that you are aware of conflicts between LABEL and ORGANIZATION across software.

MP3tag has indeed very flexible way (the best? ) of handling custom tags as it allow a total customization of field display, allowing to display these fields separately or setup rules such as $IF(%ORGANIZATION%,%ORGANIZATION%,%LABEL%), optionally associated with id-tag specific mappings of field names.

In this grey area we all end-up using non-standard tags for different reasons and it would be great to see the MP3tag approach in use in MM.

I opened a ticket to discuss my specific issue with the support team.

Cheers

by **nohitter151** » Fri Mar 23, 2012 3:21 pm

Butt_Chunx wrote:Can you please tell me where this script stores/retrieves its data from? There are many values that I never used that show up in the lists and I wish to delete those.

Check your Collection (Music, Entire library, etc.) > Classification subnodes.

by **Butt_Chunx** » Fri Mar 23, 2012 2:38 pm

Can you please tell me where this script stores/retrieves its data from? There are many values that I never used that show up in the lists and I wish to delete those.

by **Steegy** » Sat Feb 25, 2012 8:31 pm

CFT has no static list of entries, but gets the entries from the tracks in your library. So in your case that means that there are some tracks in your library with wrong entries.
If you find these tracks (use MM's search) and correct the wrong entries, they won't show up in CFT anymore.

Cheers,
Steegy

by **CWBC** » Sat Feb 25, 2012 1:01 pm

Unfortunately I've some wrong entries in my customfieldtagger list. How can I delete/modify some of these entries?
Thanks for help in advance

CWB

by **gege** » Fri Feb 03, 2012 6:46 pm

Steegy wrote:1) Maybe putting the call to SortDictionary in comments (or just remove it) in the procedure AddSetRemoveValue will do the job (or better, not the job of sorting the multiple values in the tag)

In fact this is not an ideal solution for me, because sometimes I DO want values sorted, other times I don't. eCustom allows me this.

Steegy wrote:2) Is it really necessary to put these (pre-defined or not) values in the Lyrics field? For these things (like Instrument/Language) I personally use the custom fields.

Well, when a song have no lyrics, I like to display this information in my very own Lyrics Viewer

so I put '[Instrumental]' in Lyrics field.

Steegy wrote:If you really want this, maybe someone else can help you to add this functionality (shouldn't be too hard) as I prefer to script as little as possible nowadays. Anyway, this script is not meant to be a replacement to eCustom (I only heared about that script after I wrote CFT) so maybe it can be updated for MM4 and maybe the 2 scripts can be joined together by someone

No need for this anymore. After posting this, I decided to make some changes* to my copy of eCustom to fit my needs. Now I can use one script or another, according to the needs of a specific field.

* I added things like
- ability to write to Lyrics field (remember, eCustom works only with pre-defined values, so now it does exactly what I asked before)
- ability to write multiple values to Comment field (sorted or not), with a line break as separator

Unfortunately, eCustom currently is abandonware. I'm thinking in taking it over and publish these improvements I made, since it and your CustomFieldsTagger can be kinda complementary.

by **Steegy** » Fri Feb 03, 2012 2:52 pm

Hello Gege,

1) Maybe putting the call to SortDictionary in comments (or just remove it) in the procedure AddSetRemoveValue will do the job (or better, not the job of sorting the multiple values in the tag)

Code: Select all: Sub AddSetRemoveValue(TheValue, iMenu, iField, ValuePresent) ... 'SortDictionary oDic, dictKey ' put a ' sign in front to comment the code out, or just remove the line ... End Sub

2) Is it really necessary to put these (pre-defined or not) values in the Lyrics field? For these things (like Instrument/Language) I personally use the custom fields. If you really want this, maybe someone else can help you to add this functionality (shouldn't be too hard) as I prefer to script as little as possible nowadays. Anyway, this script is not meant to be a replacement to eCustom (I only heared about that script after I wrote CFT) so maybe it can be updated for MM4 and maybe the 2 scripts can be joined together by someone

Cheers,
Steegy

by **gege** » Fri Feb 03, 2012 8:45 am

Hi Steegy, I have just discovered this script and it's great IMO.
I was a long time user of eCustom and there's only two of its features I'm missing here:

1) Ability to NOT sort automatically multiple values and instead leave them in the order they are applied.
I use this in a Custom field named 'Language', where the first value is the main language and the following is secondary. So, a song with 'English; Spanish' is primarily sang in English, with small pieces in Spanish, while 'Spanish; English' means the opposite.

2) Ability to use only pre-defined values for certain fields, instead of retrieving the existing ones from the library.
This would be extremely useful with Lyrics field, where I could define values like [Instrumental], [Vocal], [Spoken] or whatever I want. I tried to add support for Lyrics to the script, but it's become essentially useless, because it retrieves ALL different lyrics from the library, to the point of freezing MM for several minutes.

by **cajunlibra** » Sat Nov 19, 2011 2:04 pm

nohitter151 wrote:You must have the file if the script is installed and working. If you installed the script for a single user it would be at:

Windows 7 / Vista:
C:\Users\_your username_\AppData\Roaming\MediaMonkey\Scripts\Auto

Win XP:
C:\Documents and Settings\_your username_\Application Data\MediaMonkey\Scripts\Auto

Found it Thanks.

by **nohitter151** » Sat Nov 19, 2011 1:19 pm

You must have the file if the script is installed and working. If you installed the script for a single user it would be at:

Windows 7 / Vista:
C:\Users\_your username_\AppData\Roaming\MediaMonkey\Scripts\Auto

Win XP:
C:\Documents and Settings\_your username_\Application Data\Roaming\MediaMonkey\Scripts\Auto

by **cajunlibra** » Sat Nov 19, 2011 12:30 pm

Eyal wrote:
cajunlibra wrote:How did you get "Genre" as an option? I don't see it as a choice in my settings, just everything else.
Can I use this script to add a new genre to songs in addition to the genres already listed?

- Lines 63 & 64 of Scrips\Auto\CustomFieldsTagger.vbs file, add (and remove) fields you want to be available in the options.

Example:
Code: Select all
FieldList = Array("Custom1","Custom2","Custom3","Custom4","Custom5","Mood","Occasion","Genre","Grouping") FieldListDB = Array("Custom1","Custom2","Custom3","Custom4","Custom5","Mood","Occasion","Genre","GroupDesc")

Restart MM afterward.

:~)

nohitter151 wrote:
cajunlibra wrote:I don't have that file. Do I need to create it?

CustomFieldsTagger is listed under Extensions in MM4 instead of Scripts. It is also listed in my preferences for MM4.

What file? If it shows in the MM options, then the script is working.

The above file.

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