Genre Finder 5.0 - Updated 05/08/2012

[tim]

got the whole library tagged now using this. its looking good, so great work and thanks!

[Bronwyn]

I apoligize for my ignorance, but I can't figure out how to operate this script. I have installed it, and it shows up under Tools-Scripts, but once I select a track, all it does is give me a message saying "All tracks have been processed." There are no changes to the track's genre. Am I going about this the wrong way?

[trixmoto]

Have you gone into the options sheet and created some lists?

[tim]

is it deliberate that when genrefinder is set to autorun 'on track end' it pops up a confirmation box every time? doesn't do it when set to autorun 'on play'

easy enough for me to change myself, but thought i'd mention in case it was an oversight

[trixmoto]

It should work the same was as OnPlay, so sounds like a bug - I'll take a look in the next version.

[reggie_mal]

I apoligize for my ignorance, but I can't figure out how to operate this script. I have installed it, and it shows up under Tools-Scripts, but once I select a track, all it does is give me a message saying "All tracks have been processed." There are no changes to the track's genre. Am I going about this the wrong way?

I have a similar problem. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't! A lot of the time I am changing the genres(single) from previously assigned ones(multiple), don't know if that makes a difference!

Awesome script nevertheless! Thanks. Hope you can help.

[klinsten]

love the script, trix

just a thought :
is it not possible to populate the white list with all current values (with a button called 'Load current genres' ).
after that, you could weed out the ones you don't like / want to use , add some you don't have but want to use and then run the script.

then you don't need to bother with *, - , + and other

but then again, i'm ignorant of the complications this could imply

(maybe someone suggested something like this before , but with 50+ pages, this is a too long a post to go thru)

[trixmoto]

You could enable the debug logfile with a whitelist of "*" to get the current list, then copy this into the whitelist for future use.

[drizzt5565]

Ok, I've been working on my music collection for the last week! Then i found this!!!! Awesome. I've a question i couldn't find reference to it in the forms. I'm sure i must be missing something Obvious!

I don't think that it is possible to split a returned genre it into two genres.

When a Genre is returned say its "irish folk" obviously its a combination of two basic Genres.

Here's what i tried:
Whitelist = %folk%=folk,%irish%=Irish
The result is "folk".

As far as i can tell, the script flow is: Compare returned genre to each item in whitelist in order listed, when a match is found, go to next returned genre..

If the rest of the whitelist was also checked then you could split a genre.

I want to know if there is a way to change this behavior, how to do it right, or why it behaves like this. It would make writing a comprehensive whitelist much easier, and would use the returned genres more efficiently.

Eg.....You could just enter %basic genre%=basic genre.... and all that krap that comes along with them would be a thing of the past. Though i could just find and replace spaces with commas, spend a lot more time writing the Whitelist into a hierarchical order of importance of genres, etc etc.

What am i missing?

[drizzt5565]

Im not sure I explained fully. Often just one genre is returned it could be "irish folk" or it could be "irish taxadermy of the 70's" or "belviewes irish folk dancing"

It seems i have a few options at this point:

1 Have a white list that catches only the first match(that took a long time to write, so that i could plug in all the variations) and settle for 1/2 or less of the available info, if I'm lucky and added everything ideally.

2 Forgo the white list and spend endless hours fixing the genres by search and replace.

3 just enter the genres myself

The only way i can see to parse a returned genre effectively is to split the returned genre as many times as necessary.

I hope that made sense.

[trixmoto]

At the moment the script is happy as soon as it finds one match, I guess this was primarily for performance and a decision that was made before the "%" wildcard functionality was added. I think it makes sense to add an option to process the whole whitelist if you also have multiple values ticked, so I'll look at adding this in the next version.

[jared68]

Hello,

I have been working on my library over the past few months and am tackling genre's. I have began to back read through this thread, and have used Genre finder. I really think this is an incredible tool! I currently have a bit of a problem. before I started using GF I had approx 140 Genre's. When I used it the first time I had 500+, but since have began creating a white list, black list, and keep list. And have reduced that to 300+. I just need to keep moving in that direction I suppose.

My questions are in regards to building the lists. After reading the thread above this spawned a similar question as well, are wildcards able to be used, and if so is this the best practice to get the desired results? I see that you mention that GF finds a match and moves on, being happy with finding that tag. Is this easily stopped by adding the unwanted tag to the blacklist?

Thanks btw for this tool, it really is kickass!

Edit: I just found this. which should help me out, sorry I missed this. When I was looking at this thread last night I was tired and over looked it .

[trixmoto]

Thanks, I'm glad you like the script. There is a "Help" button on the "Lists" option sheet which gives a more up to date version of that post, some new functionality has been added since then.

[jared68]

I clicked on that and must have just glanced at it. I spent yesterday going through this thread and am getting things down so it all makes sense, building my whitelist's and blacklist's. Back down to where I originally started, but everything is grouped correctly. Still have some manual stuff to do, but I think that must be either no information from Last.fm or maybe isn't tagged properly.

But, it rocks! So once it is all settled I will be in great shape.

Thanks again

[Newb]

Color me stupid, but how to you bring up the UI? I installed it and it runs, but I can't figure out how to get to the settings screen you show. I'm new to MediaMonkey.