Discogs Auto-tag Web Search

[[Chris B]]

Request.....

Sometimes I only have one or two tracks from an album, and for whatever reason the script doesn't always make the link between discogs and my library, resulting in me having to uncheck each of the tracks I don't have in the tracklisting.

Can it be set up to disable all track checks with one click?

[Innuendo]

I use Mediamonkey as my browser for DJ'ing and I really can't see anything else that's suitale for my needs. I'll have a look at editing the script to suit my own needs.

MediaMonkey is hard to beat for DJ purposes. There's nothing quite like it.

Already tried MP3tag but the Actions tagging doesn't support Custom fields (at least I can't get it to)

In mp3tag go to Options -> Tag Panel & you can add custom fields to the Tag Panel on the left side of the program. For quick edits just right-click on a track and select Extended Tags & you'll be able add or delete any tag your imagination can come up with.

edit: Changing the script worked a treat. Thanks.

Now all you have to do is re-do your edits each time a new version of the script is released & you'll be golden.

[Industrialpope]

Hey i've noticed that the script gives me an "this value is outside the range" error when I look up certain CD's.

for instance:
http://www.discogs.com/Various-Super-Eu ... se/1189995
and
http://www.discogs.com/Various-Super-Eu ... se/1129196
both give me this error, I assume that it's because of the length of the title/url.

perhaps you can do something with this info.

[[Chris B]]

In mp3tag go to Options -> Tag Panel & you can add custom fields to the Tag Panel on the left side of the program. For quick edits just right-click on a track and select Extended Tags & you'll be able add or delete any tag your imagination can come up with.

I can get Mp3tag to recognise the custom fields, I just can't get it to action them ie swap publisher with custom* The info leaves publisher but just disappears.

No worries anyway as it's easier to edit the MM script, and let it do the work. I've got the label info inputing to both publisher and a custom field, in case Mediamonkey ever gets round to making better use of publisher.

Thanks for the help.

[Innuendo]

I can get Mp3tag to recognise the custom fields, I just can't get it to action them ie swap publisher with custom* The info leaves publisher but just disappears.

Oh, I see now. For something automated you'd set up an Action script setting Custom* to the value of Publisher and then delete the Publisher tag. Never hurts to know mp3tag. It helps get to those tags MediaMonkey doesn't see, but hopefully MM4 will put an end to needing another program. MM4, I think, is supposed to allow us to access any tag field...at least through scripts.

No worries anyway as it's easier to edit the MM script, and let it do the work. I've got the label info inputing to both publisher and a custom field, in case Mediamonkey ever gets round to making better use of publisher.

Sounds like something for the suggestion box.

Thanks for the help.

I'm still learning the intricacies of tagging, but I like to help where I can.

[Let]

In previous messages we've been discussing about what information to save into which field. Ideally, these settings can be made configurable within the script in order to solve this problem. I haven't done this development since it's a lot of coding for solving a minor problem.

At this point you have two choices: 1) change the script to suit your need but this has a drawback of changing the script on every update. 2) you can move your custom2 values into publisher tag and join the mainstream.

I think I couldn't understand your point about putting label into custom2 field instead of publisher tag. Does it make any harm if it's stored in publisher? Or is it just too much work to fix already tagged albums?

[Let]

Hey i've noticed that the script gives me an "this value is outside the range" error when I look up certain CD's.

for instance:
http://www.discogs.com/Various-Super-Eu ... se/1189995
and
http://www.discogs.com/Various-Super-Eu ... se/1129196
both give me this error, I assume that it's because of the length of the title/url.

perhaps you can do something with this info.

Scripts uses a static array for holding track selection info and the capacity of this array is less than number of tracks in these albums. I'll increase this number in the next version which will fix the problem

[Let]

Request.....

Sometimes I only have one or two tracks from an album, and for whatever reason the script doesn't always make the link between discogs and my library, resulting in me having to uncheck each of the tracks I don't have in the tracklisting.

Can it be set up to disable all track checks with one click?

It used to be like that, we've just changed it for individual track selection. Mediamonkey is supposed to pick the correct track even if all tracks are selected (you don't have to unselect them). individual track selection is good if you don't want some tracks to be used in tagging such as there's a track containing subtracks but you don't want subtracks to be used while tagging. Anyway, it's possible to put a checkbox if it's neccessary

[[Chris B]]

Request.....

Sometimes I only have one or two tracks from an album, and for whatever reason the script doesn't always make the link between discogs and my library, resulting in me having to uncheck each of the tracks I don't have in the tracklisting.

Can it be set up to disable all track checks with one click?

It used to be like that, we've just changed it for individual track selection. Mediamonkey is supposed to pick the correct track even if all tracks are selected (you don't have to unselect them). individual track selection is good if you don't want some tracks to be used in tagging such as there's a track containing subtracks but you don't want subtracks to be used while tagging. Anyway, it's possible to put a checkbox if it's neccessary

Just my experience of it, that when in the odd occassion it doesn't link the correct tracks, it can be tedious to uncheck each track in the discogs tracklisting, particularly when it's a multi CD entry.

[Let]

Just my experience of it, that when in the odd occassion it doesn't link the correct tracks, it can be tedious to uncheck each track in the discogs tracklisting, particularly when it's a multi CD entry.

If you clean artist and album fields and put correct track number, media monkey uses track number to match it. I'll consider your idea in the very next version, until then this trick would make your life easier.

[Let]

I've created a brand new thread for this script. Prior updates will be announced in that thread, please use the new thread for reporting bugs, requesting features, posting comments etc.

new Discogs Tagger thread