What Form of Rating/Playcount am I using?, Can't figure if its the database or tag edit component etc. |
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What Form of Rating/Playcount am I using?, Can't figure if its the database or tag edit component etc. |
  May 24 2012, 00:45
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Group: Members Posts: 11 Joined: 29-October 11 Member No.: 94775  |
Hey hey guys
I have Playlist Tools, Quick Tagger and foo_playcount all installed and I'm not too sure what one I have been using (for around a year or so) I want to have the ratings and playcounts write to the actual tags, but I don't know what does what at this moment I use quick tagger to assign shortcuts (ie CTRL + 2 for 2 stars etc etc) and every now and then I restart foobar to avoid losing any play data if it was to crash on me so does anyone know what I am doing right/wrong to be able to view the ratings in the actual tags? Cheers |
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May 24 2012, 06:05
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Group: Members Posts: 173 Joined: 22-March 07 Member No.: 41742 |
QUOTE (ca5k @ May 23 2012, 18:45)  Hey hey guys I have Playlist Tools, Quick Tagger and foo_playcount all installed and I'm not too sure what one I have been using (for around a year or so) I want to have the ratings and playcounts write to the actual tags, but I don't know what does what at this moment I use quick tagger to assign shortcuts (ie CTRL + 2 for 2 stars etc etc) and every now and then I restart foobar to avoid losing any play data if it was to crash on me so does anyone know what I am doing right/wrong to be able to view the ratings in the actual tags? Cheers It's actually quite easy to check. Do a media library search and enter the following query 'rating PRESENT'. This will return all tracks that have the RATING tag embedded into the file itself. Then do a '%rating% PRESENT' search. This will return all tracks that have the rating stored in other format (e.g. Playback Statistic, customdb etc.). It's actually a matter of preference of whether to store the rating in the song or not. If you do a lot of backup (differential backup that compares the modified time), storing rating in the file will cause that file to be backup, which is kinda useless. On top of that, rating is a subjective matter and it wouldn't make sense to store it into the file tag itself if you share your music with others. |
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May 24 2012, 06:08
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 Group: Members Posts: 3258 Joined: 27-January 05 From: England Member No.: 19379 |
if you have foo_playcount installed but want to see rating tags from your files, you need to use $meta(rating) in your custom columns, panels etc...
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May 24 2012, 07:33
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Group: Members Posts: 11 Joined: 29-October 11 Member No.: 94775 |
Thanks for the heads up
Interestingly my rating PRESENT shows 888 results and my %rating% PRESENT shows 705 If the ratings are being stored to the tag, how would I go about seeing them/editing the rating or playcount outside of Foobar Also, I don't share my music and the PC my music is on is only used by myself - so how would I go about seeing or editing the actual tag, say with MP3Tag or the likes? |
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