Instrumental music

[Bee-liever]

When tagging a file as "mark as having no lyrics" could MB display "Instrumental" rather than "No lyrics" in the lyrics panel please?

If I'm using Theater Mode, and quickly glance at the screen, I find "No lyrics" too similar to "No lyrics found".
I'm forever thinking "I'm sure I fixed that last time", only to find, on closer inspection, I did!

[greenday1987]

+1 For logics

[Zak]

There is the possibility that a track may not have lyrics but also not be instrumental (eg audio books, podcasts, speeches), so it may be better to show nothing at all.

[greenday1987]

I guess so- maybe 'Not Applicable' or some variation then?

[Bee-liever]

There is the possibility that a track may not have lyrics but also not be instrumental (eg audio books, podcasts, speeches), so it may be better to show nothing at all.

Then "Not Applicable" would have to be the next best idea.

I suppose the other way would be for me to write a script that looked at my genre/style tags and if it was tagged as classical, instrumental, ambient, trance, jazz, or bigband, MB will write "Instrumental" as the lyric.

[Zak]

I suppose the other way would be for me to write a script that looked at my genre/style tags and if it was tagged as classical, instrumental, ambient, trance, jazz, or bigband, MB will write "Instrumental" as the lyric.

If by "script" you mean Virtual Tag then it probably wouldn't be too difficult for Steven to support virtual tags in the lyrics field.

Then people could insert their own values based on the presence or lack of lyrics, track genres etc.

Something like:

$IsNull(<Lyrics>,$If(<Genre>=Classical,[n/a],No lyrics),<Lyrics>)

[Bee-liever]

I suppose the other way would be for me to write a script that looked at my genre/style tags and if it was tagged as classical, instrumental, ambient, trance, jazz, or bigband, MB will write "Instrumental" as the lyric.

If by "script" you mean Virtual Tag then it probably wouldn't be too difficult for Steven to support virtual tags in the lyrics field.

Nah, for this I would use the  scripting functions in MP3Tag.  Some of my files have multiple genres and it's easier checking those through there than MB

[phred]

I suppose the other way would be for me to write a script that looked at my genre/style tags and if it was tagged as classical, instrumental, ambient, trance, jazz, or bigband, MB will write "Instrumental" as the lyric.

Just thinking through my own library, if you use a script to accomplish this, how would you handle the exceptions?  Specifically I'm thinking of jazz and big band tracks that have vocalists.

[Bee-liever]

I use the a custom tag, "Style", in my library so that tracks like ·Ella Fitzgerald and her Savoy 8 - Shine (1936)· can have,

<Genre>:Jazz
<Style>:Early Jazz;Vocal Jazz

and ·Glenn Miller and his Orchestra - Chattanooga Choo Choo (1941),

<Genre>:Jazz
<Style>:Big Band;Traditional Pop;Vocal

while ·Dave Pike - Jet Set (1966) has

<Genre>:Jazz
<Style>:Smooth Jazz;Instrumental

so I can either search for "Vocal" or "Instrumental" and work from there.
One of these days I'm going to move all my Genre tags to Genre Category and then all my Style tags to Genre tags and do away with the custom tag.  Yeah.  One of these days......