dsperber
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Posted: May 04 2011,04:06 |
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Well, it doesn't matter if you take the trouble to add any of these extended fields (e.g. involvedpeople) to the tag data for a file, and customize MP3Tag's displayed and modifyable tag fields to include this. If no media player program or device is aware of this extended field then the usability could be limited to MP3Tag.
Now a portable music players which supports "browse by tag field" is very likely only going to support the basic common ID3v1 and ID3v2.2 tag fields, like [Artist], [Genre], [Year], etc... so obviously even if you've stored involvedpeople in the tags, you won't be able to utilize that data for playback purposes.
Now, if you want, you can "filter" the files presented with MP3Tag. And, you can ask it to "recurse down" through all sub-folders. So the "filter" you specify can be used to browse your entire music collection (starting from the highest level parent folder, and looking down through all sub-folder).
That means if you want, you could browse your entire music collection looking for specific "involvedpeople", using that extended field in your "filter" expression. The list presented by MP3Tag would be only those music files you were looking for... from all of your folders.
Now MP3Tag isn't a "player"program, but if you right-click on one or more selected files (e.g. if you selected every file presented in that "filtered" list of music files specifying a particular "involvedpeople" value) you can select PLAY from the popup menu, and your the whole list of selected files will be enqueued into the default MP3/FLAC player program (e.g. Winamp) and playing will start.
So you could use MP3Tag as your "player driver", browsing through your music files for what you want and then submitting the list of files you want to play to Winamp (etc.).
Furthermore, from what I read (in the HELP) you can use MP3Tag to create an M3U playlist from the files selected... when you update tag fields. So if I understand it correctly you could start from your "filtered" list, select just those files from that list you really want to create an M3U playlist for, modify one field in all of them (like a dummy operation, to modify all those files' tags simultaneously) and thus produce an M3U playlist that represents all of those files.
And since player programs understand M3U playlists, this might be a way to pre-construct collections of files from your music files using MP3Tag, that represent those music files you're particularly interested in.
Anyway, you're not going to find ordinary programs or players that can do what MP3Tag can do in this regard... especially insofar as handling all of those extended tag fields as shown in the list that MP3Tag can handle.
And the fact that MP3Tag can indirectly be your player program as well, through right-click -> PLAY, maybe you can accomplish what you're trying to accomplish, using MP3Tag as the filter driver of your player.
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