Adding Non Tagged files to library (1 Viewer)

[jameson_uk]

I have some AC3 files that I want to add to my music library but these are obviously not tagged.

I am assuming that I can add them manually to the database. I would need to add records to or pickup existing value from
albumartist
artist
genre

Then add the tracks into
tracks

or is there an easier way of doing this (I am guess that unticking the "don't import unknown tracks" is likely to make matters harder)

 

[KevL]

I have long regretted that MP Music cannot extract tag info from directory structure and directory names. But, as far as I'm aware, it cannot. All my music is untagged so I just use the shares view.


K

 

[jameson_uk]

Right I managed to find some time to play around. I succesfully managed to add some non-tagged AC3 files to the music database and all worked ok.

I ended up adding records directly in the SQLite database which is not ideal if you have lots of untagged files. (Unticking the option above did not appear to do anything)

Think I will look at creating something more automated if I get the chance

 

[KevL]

If you have the skills to add an automated means of deriving tag data from directory structure then I think it will be a very popular addition.

I think a new tab dialogue in MY MUSIC setup easily provide the config for such a setup.

Ive seen a schemes for handling this whereby one had to identify the info in each level of the directory tree

e.g.
tree root = d:\Music
1st level = genre
2nd level = artist
3rd level = album name
filename = %track number% " - " "track title"

then tags can be populated trivially.

I guess a number of list boxes all pre-populated with the tag names recognised by MP would be the ideal control. The user would simply select the correct tag depending on the directory structure.

Splitting up filenames would be trickier. Regular expressions can be very cryptic looking. Many would stuggle with them - and break the DB???


Not sure how much work is involved.

I could easily write routine to extract the tags by parsing the pathname/filename but I wouldn't know how to put this in the SQL database. Providing controls on a tab dialog doesn't sound too hard.

It all sounds eminently do-able.


Kev

 

[hwahrmann]

Well, if you have the Music so well organised in this way, then you could use one of the taging tools around to aautomatically tag the files.

yes, i understand, that there are file formats, which don't allow proper tagging.
i'll have a look into it, but maybe because of the feature freeze, it'll not make it into 1.0.