Having issues with aliasTags and CUSTOM tags
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14-10-2020, 20:02
(This post was last modified: 14-10-2020 20:04 by edj.)
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Hello all. I use MediaMonkey's ability to create Custom tags. One example is that I use Custom 4 to give an (alphabetic) ranking for my own top ten for the year.
Mediamonkey writes the tags differently to the files for FLAC and MP3. For FLAC files it defines the tag simply as "Custom4", so I can use aliasTag with the setting "Custom4:Top Tracks" and it works perfectly. I can't get it to work with MP3s though. According to MP3Editor the tag is "COMMENT SONGS-DB_CUSTOM4" (without the "" but WITH the space). According to notepad the tag is "XXXSongs-DB_Custom4". I have tried all of the following with "xxx:Top Tracks" but none work. In all I have tried: COMMENT SONGS-DB_CUSTOM4 "COMMENT SONGS-DB_CUSTOM4" SONGS-DB_CUSTOM4 DB_CUSTOM4 XXXSongs-DB_Custom4 Songs-DB_Custom4 DB_Custom4 Any ideas please?! It's driving me nuts... thanks Edit: I don't know if this could be useful or note, but it's the relevant snippet from one of the MP3s when opening with notepad: Code: ØÖ¢ªÙ¸ÇÒíÇÄf¤f×ÿÙTPE1 EmperorTALB Begin EPTPE2 EmperorTIT2 Begin ft. Georgia YatesTIT1 OnlineTPUB CriticalTRCK 1TYER 2013TDRC 2013POPM no@email ÿ COMM y XXX 00000000 00000210 00000A16 0000000000F2C25A 00000000 00DC1AF1 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000TCON Drum & BassTBPM 87COMM XXXSongs-DB_Custom1 13.05COMM XXXSongs-DB_Custom2 CRIT070COMM XXXSongs-DB_Custom3 gCOMM XXXSongs-DB_Custom4 e |
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14-10-2020, 21:30
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RE: Having issues with aliasTags and CUSTOM tags
It's a bit hard to work out exactly what's in the file from the Notepad output but it seems to me that this is an ID3v2 COMM (Comment) frame with a language value 'XXX', a descriptor 'Songs-DB_Custom4' and comment text 'e'.
I am sorry to say that MinimServer cannot read an ID3v2 COMM frame with this format. Comments in ID3v2 are normally encoded with an empty descriptor and MinimServer reads such a comment as a COMMENT tag. |
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14-10-2020, 23:57
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RE: Having issues with aliasTags and CUSTOM tags
Hi Simon, thank you for the explanation. Given that I simply won't stop using Mediamonkey, it sounds like I'm buggered unless:
a. I convert everything to FLAC b. Mediamonkey change how they set custom tags in MP3 files (to for eg how they do it in FLAC files) Do you agree? I can't really see another way around the issue... |
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15-10-2020, 07:19
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RE: Having issues with aliasTags and CUSTOM tags
Please upload one of these files to my FTP server so that I can investigate further. I will PM you the server details.
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17-10-2020, 10:25
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RE: Having issues with aliasTags and CUSTOM tags
Apologies Simon I missed this, have just sent you a PM (and uploaded some tracks).
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05-03-2021, 01:39
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RE: Having issues with aliasTags and CUSTOM tags
Hi Simon, did you manage to have a look at this? Thanks - Ed.
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05-03-2021, 12:02
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RE: Having issues with aliasTags and CUSTOM tags
Apologies for the long delay in responding. Mp3tag maps these COMM frames to
COMMENT SONGS-DB_CUSTOM1=13.02 COMMENT SONGS-DB_CUSTOM4=c I will try some other tagging programs to see what they do. |
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05-03-2021, 16:53
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RE: Having issues with aliasTags and CUSTOM tags
I have decided to go with the MP3tag naming convention, which is also used by foobar2000. If you want to map this tag to a simpler name, you can use the aliasTags property to do this. For example, to map this tag to CUSTOM4 for both FLAC and MP3 files, you can set aliasTags to
COMMENT SONGS-DB_CUSTOM4:CUSTOM4 This change will be in the next MinimServer update. |
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17-03-2021, 18:20
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RE: Having issues with aliasTags and CUSTOM tags
Simon this is great news, thank you very much. Appreciate it hugely.
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