Author Topic: How to retrieve good quality genre tags using Picard  (Read 19662 times)

hiccup

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I was wondering if there is a way to use word wrap or if it's just something that'll come down to panel size and luck of the draw
When the tag splits the lines, it leaves the · behind.
Both are intentional.

- I don't like genre names getting cut-off to a next line.
If you want that you could simply use the <Genres> tag instead of my formula.
(disable 'split into rows' and set the number of rows that you want)

- The trailing middle dot indicates there are more genres to follow.


edit:
Playing around a bit with non-breaking spaces, I created one that seems to work nicely too.
It will neither truncate, nor cut-off a genre name to a next line.:

Code
$Replace($Replace(<Genres>," ",$Char(00A0)),;$Char(00A0)," · ")
1. It requires the Additional Tagging & Reporting Tools plugin to be installed. (a recent version of it)
2. Set the panel to not split tags into rows. Set the max.row span to your preference.
Last Edit: January 30, 2023, 10:39:56 PM by hiccup

Mr. Trev

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just to confirm I have this set up properly

This tag will remove all spaces from the genre - ie. deathdoommetal

Another thing that just popped into my head while working on this.
Does any part of your virtual tag limit the number of tags displayed (maybe the number of "0,4" instances or string of numbers at the end)?
My thought was if I wanted to have 5 genre available for library purposes, but only display the first 2 in the track info panel

hiccup

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just to confirm I have this set up properly

So you also read/did this?:

1. It requires the Additional Tagging & Reporting Tools plugin to be installed.

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Does any part of your virtual tag limit the number of tags displayed (maybe the number of "0,4" instances or string of numbers at the end)?
Nope.
Last Edit: January 30, 2023, 09:01:43 PM by hiccup

Mr. Trev

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just to confirm I have this set up properly

So you also read/did this?:

1. It requires the Additional Tagging & Reporting Tools plugin to be installed.

Yes, I did read that, and it was installed (v5.5.8397). I'll see if a newer version is available…

hiccup

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Yes, I did read that, and it was installed (v5.5.8397). I'll see if a newer version is available…
That's probably it.
The $Char function that the formula uses was added only recently to AT&RT, so an updated version is indeed necessary for this to work well.

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hiccup

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Updated the whitelist.

It surpassed the (questionable) milestone of now containing 3.000+ genres.