Additional Tagging & Reporting Tools

[boroda]

Hi Baroda,
I seem to have something weird going on with the new LR screen.
When I run the 'Preview' on a preset it shows dates in the column:
...

but if I run the preset from ASR I get the correct results:
...

LR tries to guess custom tag type using all tag values LR deals because it was created before Steven introduced user-defined types for custom tags. obviously, this guessing is not ideal.

i'll better just use the MB API to get user-defined types of custom tags.

[Eggaian]

Uh, I get error messages when I want to use this plugin. Such as:



Then I try to "modify tag names so that they all are unique". But It all gets even more broken.

These are the offender tags:

Code

Adding URL / Url
Adding Kind / Kind
Adding Format / Format
Adding Size / Size
Adding Channels / Channels
Adding Sample Rate / SampleRate
Adding Bitrate / Bitrate
Adding Date Modified / DateModified
Adding Date Added / DateAdded
Adding Time / Duration
Adding Track Gain / ReplayGainTrack
Adding Album Gain / ReplayGainAlbum

The result when trying to modify tags to get this plugin to initialise is this:

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Adding Url / Url
Adding  / Kind
Adding Format / Format
Adding  / Size
Cant add  / Size
Adding  / Channels
Cant add  / Channels
Adding  / SampleRate
Cant add  / SampleRate
Adding  / Bitrate
Cant add  / Bitrate
Adding  / DateModified
Cant add  / DateModified
Adding  / DateAdded
Cant add  / DateAdded
Adding Duration / Duration
Adding ReplayGainTrack / ReplayGainTrack
Adding ReplayGainAlbum / ReplayGainAlbum

The error tells me there are duplicate tags. Then I delete them on "tags (2) > configure fields". But I get this:



I tried to match the tags from your plugin with what musicbee says. Doesn't work either.

Code

Adding Kind / Kind
Adding Format / Format
Adding Size / Size
Adding Channels / Channels
Adding Bitrate / Bitrate

Are all the same yea. However, I do not understand

Code

Adding Date Modified / DateModified
Adding Date Added / DateAdded
Adding Time / Duration
Adding Track Gain / ReplayGainTrack
Adding Album Gain / ReplayGainAlbum

Code

Adding URL / Url

and this is simply an Upper case issue. Why is this so anal?

Even if I modify names to be "unique", I still get the same duplicate errors.

And I do not see any

Code

Adding Format / Format

tag present anywhere.

Would it not be much pertinent to match your plugin tags with whatever musicbee dictates? So many headaches. I found posts about this issue like from like 5 years ago or so. You suffer but why?

Just want to initialise the plugin and use it. Partially restore my sanity, please.

[Eggaian]

Also, the settings window within the plugins section, where you can hit "configure", is too large. I find no way to shrink it, therefore, I am unable to see the end of it and save any settings.



If I open some quick settings from the "advanced search and replace section", I check "use musicbee skin colours", I get something that is barely readable

[phred]

Also, the settings window within the plugins section, where you can hit "configure", is too large. I find no way to shrink it, therefore, I am unable to see the end of it and save any settings.

What is your monitor's scaling percentage? If not 100% try it at 100%

[Dizza17]

Hi @ Eggaian,
The error is due to you having duplicate tags writing to the same field. Check your custom tags in Tag 1 settings. Make sure none of them are writing to the same field as other fields be it another custom tag or one that’s native to Musicbee. Also best not to tick use musicbee skin colours, as you’ve discovered it makes it impossible to read any text.

[boroda]

These are the offender tags:

Code

Adding URL / Url
Adding Kind / Kind
Adding Format / Format
Adding Size / Size
Adding Channels / Channels
Adding Sample Rate / SampleRate
Adding Bitrate / Bitrate
Adding Date Modified / DateModified
Adding Date Added / DateAdded
Adding Time / Duration
Adding Track Gain / ReplayGainTrack
Adding Album Gain / ReplayGainAlbum

it's the tags which have been successfully registered. find lines which start with "Can't add..." somewhere in the log to see which tags (tag names will be repeated) are duplicated. plugin treats all tag names independently of case.

go to mb menu> edit> prefs> tags (2)> configure fields. check that all tag names are unique in the "override label" column.

don't use skin coloring. for now, this option works with light skins only. i'm working on better support of this option now.

[Batmang]

Hello
I'm having 3 problems with the plugin, both with the Library Reports tool. 2 & 3 may well be user error!

Firstly, with the "Save [field] to [tag]" settings. When I set a tag to save to, it is not saved as part of the auto report, returning to <NULL>. This applies even if I just close the Library Report tool, and if I restart MusicBee.

Secondly, I used to use several <Grouping> fields to calculate an average value, and write that to a tag for every track in that group.
Sadly, with the current system, that no longer works - a specific tag has to be chosen to calculate an average, rather than using the groupings.

Finally, even when using groupings, when writing tags, it appears to calculate using the individual tag rather than the results from the grouping - which are displayed properly on the preview settings.

Any help would be appreciated.
Windows 11
MusicBee Ver: 3.5.8698
AddTagTools: 2023-11-04 16:24:07

[boroda]

foremost, i apologize for my recent mistake: i've uploaded a new plugin version some days ago (and deleted the previous version both from the server and from my PC), which i thought was stable, but it turned out to be very buggy. so, i've had to re-upload the most recent version i could find, which was more or less stable. excuse me. all i can do now is advise you to try one of the very old, stable versions.

for example, you can try this version from 06/26/2023:

https://www.mediafire.com/file/cwwtzg1bmy532j6/mb_TagTools_2023-06-26.zip/file

it's stable, but very old.

also, you can try this recent version from 11/04/2023 (but only if you use win 10/11 (edited: i saw that you are on win 11) and screen dpi at 100%):

https://www.mediafire.com/file/h2t08o9562efboi/mb_TagTools_latest.zip/file

i'll upload a new, fixed, stable, and greatly improved version in a few days. maybe in a couple of weeks.

but maybe you are using the stable version (it depends on when you downloaded it).

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about your issues:

1. seems to be a bug. i'll check this out. also, maybe it's a bug, which has been fixed already.

2. saving grouping fields to tags is disabled intentionally, just because all grouping fields are already some MB tags. why do you want to save grouping fields as tags?

3. there have been many plugin versions that exposed different LR behaviors (btw, no ALR has been available for a long time; it's been merged with LR. which plugin version are you using?). but i'm doubtful that the version you are using saves some "individual calculated tags." all i can suggest is that recent plugin versions take into account the tags of displayed tracks only (they may be filtered somehow, and you may see not all tracks of your library in the current view) for displaying/exporting LR reports, but all tracks, which have the same grouping tags as the currently displayed tracks for saving functions. this is quite different (and reasonable) behavior.

if you want to experience the same LR behavior for displayed reports and saved functions, don't filter displayed track list (e.g. don't generate reports for playlists, only for entire library).

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EDIT:

you might want to try the following latest version if you are mostly interested in LR. this version must be stable, but it's incomplete.
don't use the following commands with this version: MSR, both re-encode tag commands and tag history.
swap tags, save last skipped date dialog, and both settings windows may look ugly, but they must work.

https://www.mediafire.com/file/2tn27f7xxzf1sv4/mb_TagTools.dll/file