[quote="RobertSmith"][quote="Owyn"]Which tool did you use to store "MusicIP PUID" in "Composer" tag?[/quote]See previous [url=http://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=41130#p213251]post[/url] ;)
Mp3Tag[/quote]
Thanks, our posts crossed.

[quote="Bex"]I'll add all custom fields to ADFF so you don't need to use the composer field for it! :)[/quote]Great! I dislike using tags in a way they not supposed for :)

I'll add all custom fields to ADFF so you don't need to use the composer field for it! :)

[quote="Owyn"]Which tool did you use to store "MusicIP PUID" in "Composer" tag?[/quote]See previous [url=http://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=41130#p213251]post[/url] ;)
Mp3Tag

[quote="RobertSmith"]My temporary solution is to store a copy of MUSIC IP in Composer, it works perfect together with above mention scripts. No need for xl.[/quote]
Which tool did you use to store "MusicIP PUID" in "Composer" tag?

[quote="Owyn"]Robert, how did you get
a)"MusicIP PUID" tag loaded reliably. MusicIP archives "MusicIP Fingerprint" but not "MusicIP PUID". Picard Scan followed by Save does load "MuiscIP PUID". Is there a better/faster solution?

b)Load the extended tag to Composer. I am looking into doing it with a Perl script, but, if there is available way of doing it already I would be interested.

Composer tag is not a good target for me. I have extensive real composer data loaded already. MM custom tag is another possibility but MM's implementation does not seem to be portable to other applications, e.g. MP3Tag.[/quote]
b)I use [url=http://mp3tag.de/en/index.html]Mp3Tag[/url]
You can use MM CustomX it's a extended tag in the same way as MUSICIP PUID, use Alt-T to see it in Mp3Tag (Custom1 = COMMENT SONGS-DB_CUSTOM1).

To Copy PUID to Custom1
Select ACTION, then create a new action (upper right hand "star" icon). Give your action a name (e.g., Copy PUID to Custom1), then in the next box, click the upper right side "star" icon to create the action. It will ask you for type. Use the drop down box to select FORMAT VALUE. Within this select the field (COMMENT SONGS-DB_CUSTOM1) then enter the format string (%MUSICIP PUID%). Then save this.

Now you have an action, run the action on one file. You can select 1000s of files at once to run the action on (test it on a few first).

a)I'm not sure, I use GenPUID and Picard. GenPuid seems to be the most reliably and with GenPUID it's easy to make a batch job, see post 1. But normally I use Picard for tagging and to save PUID. I save files also if were are no match in MusicBrainz (save them in left windows, to store only PUID).

My temporary solution is to store a copy of MUSIC IP in Composer, it works perfect together with above mention scripts. No need for xl.

[quote="trixmoto"]Well my "MusicIP Tagger" already does all of this except store the PUID in a custom field. This is however on my list for the next version.[/quote]I know that you can use [url=http://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=30994&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&hilit=MusicIP+Tagger]MusicIP Tagger[/url] for tagging (but as i wrote in previous post not the best source, I prefer [url=http://musicbrainz.org/]MusicBrainz[/url] and [url=http://musicbrainz.org/doc/Picard_Tagger]Picard Tagger[/url]). But how can I use [i]MusicIP Tagger[/i] to find duplicates, I most have mist something?

Edit: or do you mean that in [i]"next"[/i] version can run MusicIP tagger (and only for tracks missing PUID) without tagging, only store PUID?

Well my "MusicIP Tagger" already does all of this except store the PUID in a custom field. This is however on my list for the next version.

genpuid e10...[key from MusicIP] "G:\Music MP3\By Artist" -r -archive -xml=temp.xml

genpuid e10...[key from MusicIP]  "G:\Music MP3\By Artist" -r -rmd=1 -xml=MyCollection.xml

$filename(csv,utf-16)Album;Title;Artist;MusicIP PUID;Path
$loop(%_filename_ext%)%album%;%title%;%artist%;%MUSICIP PUID%;%_folderpath%
$loopend()

Edit:
[b]xl is unneeded, see following posts[/b]

I have many duplicates with different titles/artists (all with different hash). Most of my tags are from MusicBrainz, but what is no guarantee for unanimous titles since titles can be different on different releases because whoever decided of the design of physical release.

Before I start to clean up (delete and transfer PlayStat) with the amazing [url=http://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=13000&start=0]Advanced Duplicate Find & Fix[/url] my first step is to make sure they all have same title and artist. To do this I use xl and GenPUID with [url=https://secure.musicip.com/dns/index.jsp]MusicDNS web-service[/url], which returns a [url=http://blog.musicip.com/2006/11/01/the-power-of-puids/]PUID[/url] (PUID could also be returned with MusicBrainz or MusicIPmixer).

Start to download GenPuid from [url=https://secure.musicip.com/dns/index.jsp]MusicDNS[/url], you need an account to be able to download GenPUID 1.4 and to get your key.

You start GenPuid from Windows Command Line. I prefer to use a batch file. I have two bat files one for writing PUID to tags and one for creating an XML file to be used with xl (they could be combined but...).

[i]MyGenPUID - Write PUID.bat[/i]
[code]genpuid e10...[key from MusicIP] "G:\Music MP3\By Artist" -r -archive -xml=temp.xml[/code]There are several switch, I only use few of them, see reedme for more information.
[b]-r[/b]
Recursively processes all sub-directories.
[b]-archive[/b]
Write MusicIP tags into the song files as they are identified.
[b]-xml=temp.xml[/b]
Generate output in XML format

It can takes hours to run GenPUID depending on number of tracks, so be careful and don't start with your entire collection, just start with a testing directory. Even if there are only a few tracks it can takes 10 minutes per track if a track doesn't exist in MusicDNS. Normal time is 2-3 sec per track (25000 tracks = ~20h ...). If you store PUID in tags you don't have to run GenPUID again, so there is a good idea to have new tracks in a temp directory before they are moved to correct directory. If you don't receive a PUID check status for each track in the XML file and search for Pending.
[b]Pending[/b]
The server has not yet generated a PUID for this track, which can take up to 24 hours. If you have submitted a fingerprint for PUID creation, you will need to re-request it from GenPUID after that time frame has lapsed.

[i]MyGenPUID - Create MyCollectionXML.bat[/i]
[code]genpuid e10...[key from MusicIP] "G:\Music MP3\By Artist" -r -rmd=1 -xml=MyCollection.xml[/code][b]-rmd=1[/b]
Returns extra metadata. (1: Include basic artists name and track title metadata)

I don't know why but GenPuid doesn't currently cope with Unicode filenames and will generate invalid XML. But it's simple to correct just open [i]MyCollection.xml[/i] in notepad and save it as UTF-8 [i](UTF-16 ?)[/i].

With PUID stored in extended tag [b]MUSICIP PUID[/b] export your collection using i.e. [url=http://mp3tag.de/en/index.html]Mp3Tag[/url] -export (CSV)[code]$filename(csv,utf-16)Album;Title;Artist;MusicIP PUID;Path
$loop(%_filename_ext%)%album%;%title%;%artist%;%MUSICIP PUID%;%_folderpath%
$loopend()[/code]
In xl use pivot-tables to look for duplicates (tracks with equal PUID). Rename yellow titles.
[img]http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/952/skrmklippk.jpg[/img]
Rename artist and title (move feat. Kesha to title)
[img]http://img6.imageshack.us/img6/4488/skrmklippr.jpg[/img]

With xl it's also easy to check your tags (Artist, Title). Import your library CSV file and [i]MyCollection.xml[/i] wish contains tags from MusicDNS (not the best source for tags, but to find big mistakes it's OK), sort them both by PUID and compare the tables.

Since GenPUID can create an XML file maybe someone want to develop a script so PUID could be stored in a MM Custom field. And in the future be an option in [url=http://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=13000&start=0]Advanced Duplicate Find & Fix[/url] or [url=http://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=19168&start=0]Magic Nodes[/url]. No need for xl :)