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Support => Questions => Topic started by: imminiman on May 22, 2015, 12:41:34 PM
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I've tried searching the forums for an answer but couldn't find any.
When i'm sending to clipboard the track that is now playing, and the track has no tags, this is what is being copied to clipboard:
"Unknown Artist - Unknown Title"
I want to send to clipboard the same thing that shows up on the track that is playing.
For example, here's a link of the track I had this problem with:
http://i.imgur.com/IoWDyUH.png
As you can see, I marked the part that i want to send to clipboard. Is there any way to do it?
Thank you :)
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Where is the info that you want to send to the clipboard coming from? If it's not in a tag (a true tag, a custom tag, or a virtual tag) or a filename.ext then MB can't do anything with it. Edit > Preferences > Tags (2) > Send to Clipboard tags and us the Field Selector (...) to select the tag(s) or filename that contains the data.
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Yeah I deduced that already, but if the player does know how to show it inside itself,
I.E. when artist and title tags exist, it shows them, and when they don't exist it shows the filename without the extension, why can't it just copy that specific value to the clipboard? The value that shows up in the player itself...
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Again, where is the track info coming from? Is it the filename that's showing in your screenshot?
You can get filenames into the tags by selecting the tracks in question and right-clicking. Then Auto-Tag by Track > Infer and Update Tracks from Filename. I'd start with just a couple to make sure it's doing what you want. Then you can select many.
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It's not what I wanted, but I guess it's even better :D
Made a hotkey for this auto-tag and it's working great!
Thank you very much. :)
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You're quite welcome. I'm glad it winds up being better than you expected.
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You could also put a virtual tag formula in send to clipboard setting under Preferences> Tags (2) so that it would match filename when either title or artist tag isn't present.
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You could also put a virtual tag formula in send to clipboard setting under Preferences> Tags (2) so that it would match filename when either title or artist tag isn't present.
Really? I've tried to do that but wasn't able to. I don't know how I can add a function like if X then A else B.
Can you help me make a formula like that?
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Use this:
$IsNull(<Title>,$Replace(<Filename>,.<.Ext>,),$IsNull(<Artist>,$Replace(<Filename>,.<.Ext>,),<Artist>" - "<Title>))
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<ArtistAndTitle> might work for what you want as well
(i will make this field visible in future MB releases but its available now)
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Thank you all for helping me out. With every passing day, I love this player and this community more and more :)
I've tried using the <ArtistAndTitle> field, and it seems like the exact thing I was looking for.
Thank you Steven for your awesome player and your awesome self. Not every developer pays close attention to their users like you. Keep it up :)