Rating music (1 Viewer)

[zombiepig]

i'm totally with you jawbroken - i've spent SO long getting my music collection just the way i like it that i don't want ANY program except foobar messing with my tags!!!

there might be middle ground though - for instance, how about having just the song filepaths and ratings duplicated in a seperate xml file? then if your music db was corrupted, or the music db format changed, mp could read this information back in after a music import.
or, you could tag your files with a "RATING" tag in a seperate program dedicated to music tagging, and mp could just read this info back on music import...

 

[mbuzina]

Why not give the option of writing to the ID3 tags as well? Those who do not trust MP with their files keep it turned off, those who say: Well MP is great in all other areas, why should it break my mp3s can turn it on?

The one issue that I have with all commercial code is the in-compatability that forces you to stay with a program if you have loads of data in it. I strongly believe that open source should use all available standard formats. I would not want to loose all my music info gathered in MP (this should include album gfx) if at some point in time I would decide to switch to "xyz".

 

[jawbroken]

Yes, but I don't think any standard tagging system exists for things like rating, last time played, number of times played, etc. That is why I was saying it is probably best to keep such application specific stuff in the database. The album art embedding is standardised, so that is a different matter.

Perhaps I am wrong and there is a standard tagging system out there with such fields?

 

[Molokoids]

There's a rating tag that some MP3 taggers use (The Godfather...). I'd love MP to use it.

In fact all programs should use it This way I don't need to synchronize my ratings between every mediaplayer in the planet.

 

[piranha]

And here is standard for MP3 tags:

http://www.id3.org/id3v2.4.0-frames.txt
http://www.id3.org/id3v2.3.0.txt

Just a few important ones:

4.2.3 TBPM BPM (beats per minute)
4.16 PCNT Play counter
4.18. Popularimeter