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Support => Questions => Topic started by: buzzio on November 22, 2011, 03:57:39 AM

Title: Display Date Created
Post by: buzzio on November 22, 2011, 03:57:39 AM
It would be extremely helpful if MusicBee could display the "Date Created" field that is displayed when using Windows Explorer. This field is not stored in the ID3 tags - it's a field Windows stores for every file. This way, I could sort my music based on when the mp3 file was added to my computer.

The "Date Added" field in MusicBee is the date the file was added to MusicBee. This isn't much help for all the files that were created before MusicBee was installed, since all the existing mp3 files will show the date that MusicBee was installed.

Alternatively, it would be great if there was a way to populate one of the custom fields with the file created date. Someone wrote a script to do this in MediaMonkey, see http://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=35656

Thanks!
Title: Re: Display Date Created
Post by: boroda on November 22, 2011, 12:56:52 PM
Maybe i can add this to my plugin.
Title: Re: Display Date Created
Post by: Maleko12 on November 22, 2011, 04:14:00 PM
+1 On this! It would be a nice feature!
Title: Re: Display Date Created
Post by: VX on November 22, 2011, 05:08:16 PM
+1
Title: Re: Display Date Created
Post by: boroda on November 23, 2011, 05:29:48 AM
I've added requested option. See plugin topic for details.
Title: Re: Display Date Created
Post by: buzzio on November 26, 2011, 08:19:32 PM
boroda74 - THANK YOU! I'm amazed at how quickly you were able to do this.

Just one thing - when I store the <Date Created> field into one of the Custom fields, MusicBee doesn't know that the field is a date field, and so when sorting on that field, it treats it as a alphanumeric field. This resultant sort shows all songs in January, then February, etc. regardless of year.

Is there another tag I should copy the <date created> tag into that MusicBee will treat as a date field, or would it be possible to create the field in the yyyy/mm/dd format so that an alphanumeric sort works?

Thanks again!
Title: Re: Display Date Created
Post by: boroda on November 27, 2011, 02:07:40 AM
or would it be possible to create the field in the yyyy/mm/dd format so that an alphanumeric sort works?
I think, yes. BTW maybe its worth to remove TIME from date created tag?
Title: Re: Display Date Created
Post by: buzzio on November 27, 2011, 05:23:44 PM
Yes, I don't have any need for the TIME, just the DATE.

The reason to sort by date is to manage the new songs - rate them, add them to playlists, etc. So date matters, time doesn't.

Thanks again!
Title: Re: Display Date Created
Post by: boroda on November 28, 2011, 08:41:30 AM
buzzio, please see 'official' plugin thread for update.
Title: Re: Display Date Created
Post by: buzzio on November 28, 2011, 04:54:53 PM
Sweet, thanks so much!
Title: Re: Display Date Created
Post by: June on February 25, 2014, 01:42:27 PM
I know it's a very old thread but is this plugin still available? It seems I can't find it in plugin forum = /
Title: Re: Display Date Created
Post by: boroda on February 25, 2014, 03:46:51 PM
http://musicbee.wikia.com/wiki/Additional_Tagging_and_Reporting_Tools
Title: Re: Display Date Created
Post by: June on February 25, 2014, 10:56:34 PM
Thanks for the quick reply on this dead thread! But could I ask just how to import 'Date Created' tag from windows explorer to one of those custom tags?

I'm only used to simple ID3 tag editing so far and have had no luck finding solution on my own : /

Much appreciated
Title: Re: Display Date Created
Post by: redwing on February 26, 2014, 12:38:27 AM
I never used this feature, but it seems the field is only available from Tools> Tagging Tools> Copy tag... command. It looks like the intended use was to manually copy the field values to any custom field and add the custom field to main panel.

@boroda74:

If the field is also available from ASR presets, then copy preset could be auto-applied to auto-copy the field.
Title: Re: Display Date Created
Post by: boroda on February 28, 2014, 03:19:32 AM
@redwing
I've added <Date created> pseudo-tag to ASR command. As you said it may be used in 'Copy tag' ASR preset.

http://www.mediafire.com/download/gau7psb24s1p7je/mb_TagTools_2014-02-28.zip
Title: Re: Display Date Created
Post by: redwing on February 28, 2014, 09:53:04 AM
Great! Thanks for implementing that!
Title: Re: Display Date Created
Post by: redwing on March 01, 2014, 02:52:26 AM
@boroda74:

Though it's an improvement that the pseudo-tag is now supported by ASR presets, I don't know how to invoke auto-application of the copy tag preset for the field. Importing a file to the library or editing any tags don't make the preset to auto-apply. Any ideas?
Title: Re: Display Date Created
Post by: boroda on March 01, 2014, 04:59:23 AM
Importing a file to the library or editing any tags don't make the preset to auto-apply. Any ideas?
Its strange that editing tags doesn't make preset to auto-apply for you. It works for me and there is no difference in invoking preset which uses <date created> and which doesn't.

As for auto-applying on importing its not supported by MB at the moment, but I'll ask Steven to add new event 'track imported' for the next MB release.
Title: Re: Display Date Created
Post by: redwing on March 01, 2014, 06:06:44 AM
What I meant was there's no way to auto-write the tag value to new files. If the new event was supported, that'd be great.
Title: Re: Display Date Created
Post by: June on March 01, 2014, 09:20:30 AM
@boroda74:

omg immense thanks for the new addition, now Musicbee has everything I ever wanted for a music player!

@redwing:

I always edit some tags for the new files but the auto-invoking preset for new files would make this even greater at the top state of auto-tagging
Title: Re: Display Date Created
Post by: redwing on March 22, 2014, 04:19:10 PM
As for auto-applying on importing its not supported by MB at the moment, but I'll ask Steven to add new event 'track imported' for the next MB release.

Any progress on this?
Title: Re: Display Date Created
Post by: boroda on March 22, 2014, 05:27:31 PM
No, I need the support by Mb for this. I think Steven remembers it, but don't have enough time now.
Title: Re: Display Date Created
Post by: redwing on April 05, 2014, 05:58:07 AM
As for auto-applying on importing its not supported by MB at the moment, but I'll ask Steven to add new event 'track imported' for the next MB release.

Now this is working. Thanks for implementing it!