In all I'd give MusicBee solid 10 of 10 anytime, by far the best music player ever existed.I'll let someone else comment on your comments, but I do want to point out the MB was built to be a music -manager- not a music player. And it continues that way today. It's main use is as a means to manage one's music collection. Having a (good) player included is simply a bonus.
In all I'd give MusicBee solid 10 of 10 anytime, by far the best music player ever existed.I'll let someone else comment on your comments, but I do want to point out the MB was built to be a music -manager- not a music player. And it continues that way today. It's main use is as a means to manage one's music collection. Having a (good) player included is simply a bonus.
● 7. Showing Assigned Genres (Suggestion)
As you know genres are in lists with assigned codes (00 for Blues, 13 for Pop, 17 for Rock etc), some stupid old tagging tools (and players) write numbers instead of genres! It'll be great if MusicBee have option to shows assigned genres instead numbers.
● 7. Showing Assigned Genres (Suggestion)
As you know genres are in lists with assigned codes (00 for Blues, 13 for Pop, 17 for Rock etc), some stupid old tagging tools (and players) write numbers instead of genres! It'll be great if MusicBee have option to shows assigned genres instead numbers.
Welcome to the forum Poweruser.
The assigned genre codes you are referring to date back to 1999 as they were suggested for id3v1.
Hardcoding a 20 year old genre list into MusicBee now doesn't seem the best idea to me.
You can quite easily achieve what you want by means of custom and/or virtual tags.
If you want to learn how, you could search the forum and/or wiki, or use the 'Questions' board.
Re genre codes - I assume you mean this list : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ID3v1_Genres
I don't think MusicBee should do anything to encourage people to keep using these very old codes, many of which were at the whim of the Winamp developers (Primus has its value).
It will be easy to write a script to convert the tag value from the number to its text equivalent.
I'll post something in the next day or two.
$if($eql(%genre%,'0'),Blues,%genre%)
This became an annoying catch-22, because it was being too clever for itself. So I gave up.
(It would work if I also added a temporary dummy tag value, but then you'd have to delete that separately. Still annoying.)
Dunno. I don't use it. Does it support scripting or some other method of easily mapping 100+ values?This became an annoying catch-22, because it was being too clever for itself. So I gave up.
(It would work if I also added a temporary dummy tag value, but then you'd have to delete that separately. Still annoying.)
I don't use it much myself, but wouldn't the Additional Tagging & Reporting Tools plugin be the perfect solution for this?
Does it support scripting or some other method of easily mapping 100+ values?i think 'multiple search & replace' can easily do this without a scripting.
I wrote a script for Metatogger to convert ID3v1 genre numbers to their text equivalent.
Then I realised that wouldn't work because Metatogger automatically converts the genre numbers to text, but won't let you save tags if it doesn't think any values have changed. This became an annoying catch-22, because it was being too clever for itself. So I gave up.
(It would work if I also added a temporary dummy tag value, but then you'd have to delete that separately. Still annoying.)
Instead, I've created an action for Mp3tag and uploaded it to TinyUpload.
(I don't often upload files to share - this was just one of the first free file upload sites I found)
http://s000.tinyupload.com/?file_id=47254713284150776442
This isn't very clever or elegant - it just uses Mp3tag's built-in functions to repeatedly check the genre number and set it to the text equivalent if it matches.
e.g.CodeIf it doesn't match anything, it just sets the genre to itself so it stays the same.$if($eql(%genre%,'0'),Blues,%genre%)
To use it, download this file (and Mp3tag if you don't have it already) and save it to Mp3tag's Actions folder.
I use a portable installation, so it's just the data/actions folder inside the program folder.
For a normal install, I think it goes in appdata/local/ somewhere.
I suggest trying it on a copy of some files first to make sure it does what you want.
I wrote a script for Metatogger to convert ID3v1 genre numbers to their text equivalent.