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Joe Brown
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Posted: Aug. 24 2006,22:15
I have used your program for a long time.  It is great.

I have a question on how to do something.  I use music match to play my mp3 files.  I rate the songs as to quality on a scale of 1 to 5 in accordance with the rating system of music match.  Generally, I use good, very good and excellent which conforms to 3, 4  and 5.  I keep the songs in folders based on the artist's name and what rating it has, such as Good (A-D) with good being the rating and A-D being the first letter of the artist's name.  Both the ratings and the artist's name are tags in the files.

My question is how do I sort my files based on the rating first and the artist's name second.  Back years ago, I asked the same question and you wrote a "formula" to do it.  Obviously, I have lost the formula.

Please let me know a method.

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Posted: Aug. 24 2006,23:12
Did you ask this question on this messageboard? In that case you should still be able to find the answer here by searching the archives.

Otherwise, exactly how is this rating stored in the tags by Musicmatch?

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Joe Brown
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Posted: Aug. 25 2006,00:32
I have never posted to the archive, so am sure it is not there.  I asked the question many years ago.

I assume that Music Match stores the rating information the same way they store the other tags.  On there page where you enter the tag information, they have in order, Track Title, Track Number, Artist, Featured Artist, Album, Genre, and Rating.  The rating is in the forms of 1 through 5 stars.

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Posted: Aug. 25 2006,11:13
Ok, you need to know exactly in which tag field the rating info is stored in order to do what you ask. Try to set the rating in Musicmatch, and then look for it in the tag in Mp3/Tag Studio (the "Advanced ID3v2 tag info" dialog of the Browse tool is a good place to do this). The let me know, and I will help you further.

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Joe Brown
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Posted: Aug. 25 2006,23:43
As best I can determine, the tags go in "Comment (COMM)" in the advanced ID3v2 info window in the Browse tab.  I noticed that a few songs had several Comment (COMM) frames in the frames window, but the rating was always in one of them.  Hope this helps

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Posted: Aug. 26 2006,02:01
In this case there might be a problem... Mp3/Tag Studio only supports one ID3v2 comment-frame (the one that will be shown in the main comment box in the browse tool) for automated operations. Is the rating stored in this main comment frame?

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Joe Brown
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Posted: Aug. 26 2006,20:20
I am looking in Browse, Advanced ID3v2 info, Additional frames in tag WINDOW; ususally there is only one COMM, but occassionaly more, the most I have seen are a total of three.  In any case the top one, first one, or only one, when highlighted, shows a number, 3 to 5, in the Frame contents window, below.  This number conforms to the song rating.  On my older songs, before Music Match switched rating's systems, the 3 to 5 are designated good, very good, excellent, respectively.  Therefore, I may need an "or" in the automation to sort on "3 or good."

Where there are more than one COMM, the frame contents window is filled with a very long stream of alpha numeric characters, more tha one as in 3 to 5, and more than the number of characters in "very good" or "excellent," so a possible selection criteria could be with characters more than "X" to assure that we get the right one, or it could be the top one in the additional frames window.

Hope this resolves the potential problem.

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Posted: Aug. 27 2006,01:17
Please send me a sample file (a small mp3) that has a rating like this, and that contains more than one comment frame, and I will take a look at it.

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Posted: Aug. 28 2006,12:43
Thanks for the sample. Sadly, the rating information was not stored on the main comment tag, and as mentioned above, this is the only comment tag that is supported for autotagging/renaming operations in Mp3/Tag Studio currently. This will be fixed in a future update though, so please stay tuned.

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