Did you open up tag inspector on a track that you know for sure was rated in itunes? It might still be there.
MusicBee uses a different tagcode to dbPoweramp/Foobar
MusicBee uses a different tagcode to dbPoweramp/Foobar
It should be possible to transfer your exisiting rating tags to the format MusicBee understands by using a tool like mp3tag.
Weird, for FLAC, MB reads off RATING and my m4a's were probably assigned values under rate when I imported most of my Mediamonkey library as an xml. I guess M4A tags are weird beasts hence the need for its own field under custom tags. Anyways I digress, here's what I would do if I didn't want to import the itunes xml that could update ratings and playcounts, especially if I shuffled things around after moving to MB.Did you open up tag inspector on a track that you know for sure was rated in itunes? It might still be there.
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Tag inspector has shed some much needed light...
MusicBee uses a different tagcode to dbPoweramp/Foobar
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Default tag codes:
MusicBee = rate
dbPoweramp = Rating
foobar200 (quicktag) = Rating
Would a custom tag resolve this?
4) Highlight a song and right click > Additional Tagging Tools > Swap Tag and choosing TempRating on one side and Rating on the other.
If it's not too much hassle, I would recommend converting your audio files to FLAC, more compatibility and less chance of potential issues such as these.
Whoops, it is a plugin: http://musicbee.wikia.com/wiki/Additional_Tagging_and_Reporting_Tools
4) Highlight a song and right click > Additional Tagging Tools > Swap Tag and choosing TempRating on one side and Rating on the other.
You lost me here, 'Additional Tagging Tools' doesn't seem to exist???
<Tag id="DBPOWER RATING" id3v23="Rating" id3v24="Rating" wma="Rating" vorbisComments="Rating" mpeg="Rating" ape2="Rating" />
<Tag id="Rating" id3v23="POPM" id3v24="POPM" wma="WM/SharedUserRating" vorbisComments="RATING" mpeg="Rating" ape2="Rating" />
Thanks, gave it another try.Hmm, I don't know. I mean, once you set everything up for use in MB and MB writes to 'rate', why do you need to maintain anything further? You just have to copy 'rate' to 'Rating' (for files whose 'rate' is filled but 'Rating' is empty) if you decide to migrate to fb2k at some later date. That is unless you are thinking about jumping between fb2k (or some other program) and MB regularly.
It's working perfectly fine, but will require a routine to maintain... the nature of a workaround :)
I still can't help but wonder, is it not possible to simply change the default rating tag from 'rate' to 'Rating'? ???
2: AT YOUR OWN RISK! make a copy of your Configuration.xml file before you attempt this!Ah, thanks bee-liever for chiming in.
open the Configuration.xml file from your MusicBee installation folder with a text editor
in the <CustomTags> section insert in the alphabetical sequenceCodesave into MB and start.<Tag id="Rating" id3v23="POPM" id3v24="POPM" wma="WM/SharedUserRating" vorbisComments="RATING" mpeg="Rating" ape2="Rating" />
Not 100% sure if this one will work.
you may have to re-scan your library to get MB to recognise the changes.
Hmm, I don't know. I mean, once you set everything up for use in MB and MB writes to 'rate', why do you need to maintain anything further? You just have to copy 'rate' to 'Rating' (for files whose 'rate' is filled but 'Rating' is empty) if you decide to migrate to fb2k at some later date. That is unless you are thinking about jumping between fb2k (or some other program) and MB regularly.
1: create a custom tag eg. "DBPOWER RATING"Codeinstall 'Additional_Tagging_and_Reporting_Tools' plugin<Tag id="DBPOWER RATING" id3v23="Rating" id3v24="Rating" wma="Rating" vorbisComments="Rating" mpeg="Rating" ape2="Rating" />
set it up to auto-copy the value from DBPOWER RATING tag to Rating tag
2: AT YOUR OWN RISK! make a copy of your Configuration.xml file before you attempt this!
open the Configuration.xml file from your MusicBee installation folder with a text editor
in the <CustomTags> section insert in the alphabetical sequenceCodesave into MB and start.<Tag id="Rating" id3v23="POPM" id3v24="POPM" wma="WM/SharedUserRating" vorbisComments="RATING" mpeg="Rating" ape2="Rating" />
Not 100% sure if this one will work.
you may have to re-scan your library to get MB to recognise the changes.