Additional Tagging & Reporting Tools

[redwing]

Here's my suggestions using a virtual tag.

1. Copy and paste the following to label and formula box under Tags(1)> Define New Tags

FeatArtist=$Split($Split(<Title>,"(ft.",2),")",1)

Add the column to main panel and sort by it.
Select all the tracks that have a value in the field.

2. Go to Tools> Tagging Tools> Copy tag

Source: FeatArtist Target: Artist
Tick "smart copy" and "append source tag..." and put ";" in the box
Preview and Proceed.

3. Select all those tracks, open ASR preset pane, find "Generate Display Artist..." and run it.

[WimYogya]

@redwing:
Sounds like a good suggestion although I am not expert enough to understand it. But if I would need the same I would sure test it! ;-)
@ajfudge:
In general: MB itself plus the excellent ASR plugin options make almost every manipulation possible, is my experience after 1 month.
The question often remains: is it worth the lot of work that you have to do before you have everything exactly uniformised in your desired format.
I am struggling with that question myself too.
Options are endless, time and energy are not...
Success!

[WimYogya]

As I noticed before: sometimes (with some presets?) ASR seems to skip certain or all fields.
As far as I can analyze it now, it is just a matter of refreshing: after a restart the values have been added to the respective fields.
I experienced it a few times today with the 'add zeros to track number' presets: after applying the preset to 15 tracks of 1 cd nothing changed.
Repeating the application didn't make a change.
The restart did: the 01, 02 etc were there...

Later the same happened when I wanted to combine two fields and append an opera title to the beginning of the title field.
No changes visible until after a restart.

Please check the refreshing issue.

[boroda]

What's happened if you hit F5 button? Are fields refreshed?

[WimYogya]

Seems ok after hitting F5.
Still, autorefresh would be nicer (and is sometimes automatically done)
Could you let it ALWAYS happen? ;-)

[boroda]

Seems ok after hitting F5.

Then it's a bug in plugin. I'll check auto-refreshing in it. Last question: Fields aren't updated when preset is auto or manually applied?

[WimYogya]

I dont use autoreply (yet) coz it (still) slows down my performance.
So my experience only comes from manual application.

[boroda]

@WimYogya
Please try this version

[superstar19]

I keep getting this error (just downloaded the latest beta):

Some tag names are duplicated. Plugin is not properly initialized.

I'm using MB 2.1.4770 and the latest plugin (also tried the 2013-03-02 version), and get the same message.   Is there something else I'm missing?  I've loaded the files to the Plugins folder, but I still get this error.  I'm running MB on a desktop running Windows XP.

[WimYogya]

Did you change any field names/labels? Check if some of them are duplicates. I had that before.

[WimYogya]

@Boroda:
Newest version solves most of the autorefresh problems. The rest is - as I think - part of an existing problem on my PC where autorefresh is sometimes not perfect. Thanks.

[boroda]

@Boroda:
Newest version solves most of the autorefresh problems.

Good news

[boroda]

I'm using MB 2.1.4770 and the latest plugin (also tried the 2013-03-02 version), and get the same message.   Is there something else I'm missing?  I've loaded the files to the Plugins folder, but I still get this error.  I'm running MB on a desktop running Windows XP.

What localization of MB are you using?

[superstar19]

I'm using MB 2.1.4770 and the latest plugin (also tried the 2013-03-02 version), and get the same message.   Is there something else I'm missing?  I've loaded the files to the Plugins folder, but I still get this error.  I'm running MB on a desktop running Windows XP.

What localization of MB are you using?

I'm just using the standard install (english?) without any localisation added.

[boroda]

@superstar19
Try to upgrade MB to latest version.