Read and write as many custom fields as needed?

[MMuser2011]

I took a quick look at JRiver Media Center. They have a great feature called 'Manage Library Fields'. You can add as many new (custom) fields as you need. With such an implementation we could finally add de facto standard id3 tag fields like the one from MusicBrainz, especially:

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MusicBrainz Track Id      musicbrainz_trackid    UFID:http://musicbrainz.org
MusicBrainz Release Id    musicbrainz_albumid    TXXX:MusicBrainz Album Id
MusicBrainz Artist Id     musicbrainz_artistid   TXXX:MusicBrainz Artist Id
MusicBrainz Release Artist Id    musicbrainz_albumartistid    TXXX:MusicBrainz Album Artist Id
MusicBrainz TRM Id        musicbrainz_trmid      TXXX:MusicBrainz TRM Id
MusicBrainz Disc Id       musicbrainz_discid     TXXX:MusicBrainz Disc Id
MusicIP PUID              musicip_puid           TXXX:MusicIP PUID
MusicIP Fingerprint       musicip_fingerprint    TXXX:MusicMagic Fingerprint
Release Status            releasestatus          TXXX:MusicBrainz Album Status
Release Type              releasetype            TXXX:MusicBrainz Album Type
Release Country           releasecountry         TXXX:MusicBrainz Album Release Country
ASIN                      asin                   TXXX:ASIN
MusicBrainz Release Group Id    musicbrainz_releasegroupid    TXXX:MusicBrainz Release Group Id
MusicBrainz Work Id       musicbrainz_workid     TXXX:MusicBrainz Work Id

This would help in many ways:
a) you could search for duplicated tracks (by Track ID)
b) you could search for tracks belonging to the same album (by AlbumID)
c) you could search for correctly spelled artist, albums, tracks (using the IDs and a call to the XML Webservice of MusicBrainz)
d) tags written in any other program could be matched to such custom fields in MediaMonkey without additional scripts and sometimes additional tables in the database.

If we could WRITE such custom tags back to the tracks, we could edit them inside MediaMonkey - actually, we have to do this with an external tagging program (like Mp3tag) capable to do this task.

What do you think, will v4.1 bring us more flexibility in this part of managing tracks?
Could someone tell me, if the custom fields (read/write) are already officially tracked and maybe already on the ToDo list?

[trixmoto]

There is some functionality scheduled for the 4.1 release that will enable these tags to be read/written via scripting, but I don't think it's due to be put into the main program. This functionality would allow someone to create a generic script to provide this functionality however, I suspect. See mantis for more details... http://www.ventismedia.com/mantis/view.php?id=6218

[Solitaire001]

Sony's Media Go program has a feature that might be adapted to MediaMonkey to provide a version of this function. One of the fields in the audio properties is called "Tags." Unlike other fields when tagging files, this one is a free-form field that can contain a large number of individual entries (such as "Instrumental," "Music," "Sad Song," "Cover Song," Number One Hit," and "Parody"), each of which can be used when making autoplaylists.