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<blockquote data-quote="KevL" data-source="post: 299325" data-attributes="member: 11798">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 treee.g. tree root = d:\Music1st level = genre2nd level = artist3rd level = album namefilename = %track number% &quot; - &quot;&nbsp; &quot;track title&quot;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</blockquote>

[QUOTE="KevL, post: 299325, member: 11798"] 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 [/QUOTE]

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