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Questions / Re: Virtual TAG: View metadata padding size, possible?

« on: January 19, 2024, 04:28:54 PM »

So, wait.  We're saying that if I "obtain" some FLAC files that have a cover, and then I remove that cover in mp3tag, the size used by the cover doesn't come out of the size of the file?  It just kind of stays as padding until I do a FLAC to FLAC conversion?  

Oh, my. This seems to verify that.

If this is pans out as true, and it looks like it does, I could really use this kind of virtual tag too.

How did I not know this?

This has been addressed in mp3tag just today. A new utility function was added to remove padding in FLAC files.
https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3tag-development-build-status/455

Thanks for the info. Just in time.

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Questions / Re: Virtual TAG: View metadata padding size, possible?

« on: January 18, 2024, 12:01:11 AM »

One of the few external taggers that will delete FLAC artwork padding by default when the artwork is deleted is Kid3, if its OggFlacMetadata plugin is prioritized in its settings:



The 64-bit portable Kid3 is available in the downloads section of its homepage:  https://kid3.kde.org/#download

In Mp3tag, similar to ariesps' code column that shows the total padding within the file, I use this value that only shows the extra padding that does not include the actual size of the embedded artwork:  $div($sub(%_tag_size%,%_cover_size%),1024)

Note that Mp3tag, unlike Kid3, cannot natively delete FLAC artwork padding when it is used to delete the FLAC artwork.

Wow! Thanks for the info!

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Questions / Re: Virtual TAG: View metadata padding size, possible?

« on: January 17, 2024, 11:43:44 PM »

What I usually do, is first of all, remove/export embedded cover on files and then reconvert from FLAC to FLAC with these settings on MusicBee.



As far as I can understand if you leave 0 padding block, maybe if you change metadata later it could take longer to write changes to file. Usually, the reconversion from FLAC to FLAC is my last step, after tagging the album the way I want.

More info: https://xiph.org/flac/documentation_tools_flac.html

-P #, --padding=#
Tell the encoder to write a PADDING metadata block of the given length (in bytes) after the STREAMINFO block. This is useful if you plan to tag the file later with an APPLICATION block; instead of having to rewrite the entire file later just to insert your block, you can write directly over the PADDING block. Note that the total length of the PADDING block will be 4 bytes longer than the length given because of the 4 metadata block header bytes. You can force no PADDING block at all to be written with --no-padding. The encoder writes a PADDING block of 8192 bytes by default (or 65536 bytes if the input audio stream is more that 20 minutes long).

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Questions / Re: Virtual TAG: View metadata padding size, possible?

« on: January 17, 2024, 08:55:37 PM »

Hi hiccup,

Thanks for your reply.

I used to have the cover art embedded in flac files. Since I prefer very high resolution covers, I decided to export them in a separate file, one cover file per album and link them.

By removing covers, size of the flac file is not reduced, so you need to convert the file again, or use metaflac tool, to really free that reserved space inside the flac (padding).

The ultimate goal is to free up the space previously used in each flac file to store the cover art, and be able to identify which files would need to be reconverted again, without having to use MP3Tag. I was thinking in adding that VirtualTag as a column.

Thanks again!

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Questions / Virtual TAG: View metadata padding size, possible?

« on: January 17, 2024, 08:29:16 PM »

Is there any change to create a VirtualTag like this?
In MP3tag i have a custom columm wich calculates Padding within the file. The columm value is shown in KiB: $div(%_tag_size%,1024)

More info here.

https://captainrookie.com/viewing-metadata-padding-size-using-mp3tag/

Thanks in advance!

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MusicBee Wishlist / Re: Music Explorer - Publisher Picture/Logo

« on: January 03, 2023, 09:13:06 PM »

in the Music\Artwork\Grouping Icons\ folder, just place the a square thumb picture with the name of the publisher eg. Artwork\Grouping Icons\Heaven Beats Records.png
The ideal size is 125px

Thanks Steven! Awesome!

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MusicBee Wishlist / Music Explorer - Publisher Picture/Logo

« on: December 31, 2022, 05:31:59 PM »

Like Album Artist/Artist i think it would be cool to be able to add a picture for Publishers on header or even on the thumbnail browser.

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Screenshots / Re: Config/theme show off thread.

« on: August 31, 2022, 01:21:28 AM »

Keeping it relatively simple

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Questions / Re: Cover Size on virtual Tag?

« on: August 05, 2022, 05:38:24 PM »

I don't think there is a way to do that with virtual tags at the moment.

What did you want to use the sizes for? You can have a look at the 'Artwork Manager' in 'Tools'.
Depending on what you are trying to do, you can apply some filtering in there using artwork dimensions.

Using the Tag Editor or the Artwork panel you can hover over the artwork and it will not only show the resolution, but if it's embedded and/or saved as a file.

Thanks both for your replies @Mayibongwe @phred.

I was looking for a way to identify which albums had smaller artwork size than a given resolution. Artwork Manager did the trick!

Thanks again!

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Questions / Cover Size on virtual Tag?

« on: August 01, 2022, 01:21:47 AM »

Wonder if there is any chance to get cover size resolution in a virtual Tag (ex: 1000x1000).

Any help?

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Questions / Re: Enable Wavebar on player controls- right side panel

« on: July 19, 2020, 03:50:24 AM »

You can add it to the panel using the layout settings next to the search box.

Thanks! I just found it. Scroll bar was so thin i wasn't aware of it.

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Questions / Enable Wavebar on player controls- right side panel

« on: July 19, 2020, 03:22:00 AM »

I've recently reinstalled Musicbee due to migration to new computer. Now I'm unable to find how to enable again wawebar instead of progress track, on right side panel controls.




I've tried right clicking on player and selecting Panel Layout properties. No way.
On preferences\Layout, I can't find aynything.

Any help would be aprreciated.

Using DarkMetro-RED skin. Musicbee version 3.3.7491

Thanks!


Edited: Found it, I had to scroll on arrange panels\available elements, and select Wavebar.  Thought it was a configuration option over player controls.

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Plugins / Re: Additional Tagging & Reporting Tools

« on: May 13, 2020, 07:33:02 PM »

Hi all,

I 'm looking to implement some way to copy MusicBee ratings, mainly in FLAC Files, to Traktor compatible rating tag. Half based ratings are disabled on MusicBee

On Mp3Tag I create a RATING WMP tag, which value is replaced based on RATING tag set on MusicBee. This works ok and Traktor reads correctly ratings.



Is there anyway to get this to work within Advanced Search & Replace and regular expressions?

In MusicBee I've created a custom Tag, named RATING WMP, as a number.

Thanks in advance.

Done!

Although RATING values in Musicbee flac files are 20,40,60,80,100, ASR must read them as (1), (2), (3), (4) or (5). Now RATING WMP custom tag is populated correctly and I can finally have tags in sync between Musicbee & Traktor. Same ratings on both softwares.

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Plugins / Re: Additional Tagging & Reporting Tools

« on: May 13, 2020, 01:38:08 AM »

Hi all,

I 'm looking to implement some way to copy MusicBee ratings, mainly in FLAC Files, to Traktor compatible rating tag. Half based ratings are disabled on MusicBee

On Mp3Tag I create a RATING WMP tag, which value is replaced based on RATING tag set on MusicBee. This works ok and Traktor reads correctly ratings.



Is there anyway to get this to work within Advanced Search & Replace and regular expressions?

In MusicBee I've created a custom Tag, named RATING WMP, as a number.

Thanks in advance.

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Screenshots / Re: Config/theme show off thread.

« on: January 11, 2020, 02:45:08 AM »