Automatically Set Tags Unless Track Currently Playing

[aardwolf98]

Hello,

I would like the functionality to automatically set the track tags when I change properties but not for the currently-playing song. In that case it should update automatically when the song has finished playing. What I'm experiencing is that if I edit the properties for the track I'm listening to it loops over the last couple seconds. If it's near the end of the track it just freezes. I'm pretty sure this is because I am using UNC names to play tracks over a network device and there's network buffering happening.

[rovingcowboy]

already been given to us in the options.
uncheck the one for update tags when editing properties.
and check the one for
update tags on next scan but only for songs with changed timestamp.

that way you can edit away and monkey will not change them until you close monkey and then change them when you restart or rescan the songs.

[Lowlander]

Already requested.

The real problem is the playback interruption which depends on file type and output plug-in. For example some output plug-ins will have settings for buffer which if increased can prevent this problems for some (Tools > Options > Output Plug-ins).

[aardwolf98]

already been given to us in the options.
uncheck the one for update tags when editing properties.
and check the one for
update tags on next scan but only for songs with changed timestamp.

that way you can edit away and monkey will not change them until you close monkey and then change them when you restart or rescan the songs.

When I read the tooltips doing this makes me think the tags in the database will be overwritten by whatever was in the file on the next scan. So the tags in the database would never be written out to the files and would just be overwritten in the database from the filesystem. Am I reading them right?

[aardwolf98]

Already requested.

The real problem is the playback interruption which depends on file type and output plug-in. For example some output plug-ins will have settings for buffer which if increased can prevent this problems for some (Tools > Options > Output Plug-ins).

This is an excellent hint to solving the problem. I'm playing with the different outputs now to see what happens. For the record I started with the directsound output plugin (with defaults and hardware acceleration disabled). I'm now trying the waveOut and it's promising so far.

[Lowlander]

You can disable the writing of the tags to the files on changes you make (Tools > Options > Tags & Playlists) and then use the Files to Edit > Unsynchronized Tags node to find these files and use Tools > Advanced Tag Management > Synchronize Tags to write the tags to the files.

On rescanning the settings determine what happens. If you have only for changed Timestamp enabled the database shouldn't get updated with the file tags (the old tags) unless the timestamp on the file was changed (which shouldn't happen unless another program is working on the files).

Although this should work, I'd recommend against it unless you're desperate about the playback interruptions (and can't solve them through the output plugins).

[aardwolf98]

It's look like the WASAPI output plugin will do the trick. I can confirm the DirectSound and waveOut plugins have the same issue (although the waveOut doesn't seem to hang the application like the DirectSound one does).