I have a serious knowledge gap which is preventing me getting the best from Foobar 0.9.1.
One difficulty is:
I have some wave files ripped as
Artist\Album\Artist - Album - Tracknumber. Track
(David Gray\Life In Slow Motion\David Gray - Life In Slow Motion - 01. Alibi)
When I load them into Foobar to transcode to wv the track appears as:
? - ? -. David Gray - Life In Slow Motion - 01. Alibi
Help!
Full Version: Directory Structure and Tagging
Can nobody help me with this................just point me in a direction (any direction!!!) which might help.
which User interface do you use? UI columns or the default one?
the "?" may come from the fact that WAV files doesn't have any tag standard and the user interface is expecting a tag field. And as he can't have anyone, it returns "?"
Just the beginning of an answer but the info given is vague..
the "?" may come from the fact that WAV files doesn't have any tag standard and the user interface is expecting a tag field. And as he can't have anyone, it returns "?"
Just the beginning of an answer but the info given is vague..
As Bachi-Bouzouk says, you need to tell us what interface you're using. Vague questions require a lot of guessing on our part.
If you want to learn about Foobar, a good place to start is here. Check out the title-formatting reference.
Foobar uses scripts to display song information. For example:
%artist% - %title%
shows:
Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven
If the artist tag is empty or missing, Foobar will show a ?
? - Stairway to Heaven
This is not an error. It's not dangerous. It just means that Foobar has no information.
In your case, I would not worry about missing tags in wav files. Wav's are not designed to be tagged. Just convert it to whatever format you want and load those files into Foobar. Then worry about the tags.
If at that point you still get ? in your display, go to Preferences > Display.
If you're using the default interface, now go to Title Formatting.
If you're using the Columns UI interface, now go to Columns UI > Playlist View > Columns.
In either case, take a look at the formatting script. That will tell you what Foobar is trying to display. You should be able to figure out what is happening.
If not, post the relevent contents of your formatting script and we can help you from there.
If you want to learn about Foobar, a good place to start is here. Check out the title-formatting reference.
Foobar uses scripts to display song information. For example:
%artist% - %title%
shows:
Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven
If the artist tag is empty or missing, Foobar will show a ?
? - Stairway to Heaven
This is not an error. It's not dangerous. It just means that Foobar has no information.
In your case, I would not worry about missing tags in wav files. Wav's are not designed to be tagged. Just convert it to whatever format you want and load those files into Foobar. Then worry about the tags.
If at that point you still get ? in your display, go to Preferences > Display.
If you're using the default interface, now go to Title Formatting.
If you're using the Columns UI interface, now go to Columns UI > Playlist View > Columns.
In either case, take a look at the formatting script. That will tell you what Foobar is trying to display. You should be able to figure out what is happening.
If not, post the relevent contents of your formatting script and we can help you from there.
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As Bachi-Bouzouk says, you need to tell us what interface you're using. Vague questions require a lot of guessing on our part.
Sorry, not meant to be vague. Probably a function of age.....being three score and three!!!
However, using default interface
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If you want to learn about Foobar, a good place to start is here. Check out the title-formatting reference.
Will have a good look
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Foobar uses scripts to display song information. For example:
%artist% - %title%
shows:
Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven
If the artist tag is empty or missing, Foobar will show a ?
? - Stairway to Heaven
%artist% - %title%
shows:
Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven
If the artist tag is empty or missing, Foobar will show a ?
? - Stairway to Heaven
Thanks!
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In your case, I would not worry about missing tags in wav files. Wav's are not designed to be tagged. Just convert it to whatever format you want and load those files into Foobar. Then worry about the tags.
What bothered me was that if I had several waves, from several different sources, they waould all be transcoded into directory ?\?\.
They would then all have to be sorted out.
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If at that point you still get ? in your display, go to Preferences > Display.
If you're using the default interface, now go to Title Formatting.
If you're using the default interface, now go to Title Formatting.
Think I have solved the "problem"
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If not, post the relevent contents of your formatting script and we can help you from there.
Thanks!!
with tag guessing from the filepath and filenames of your files, transcoding them should work, but with a bunch of $substr, $strchr(s,c), $strrchr(s,c), and $replace functions ... (depending on your directory structure) But it should be manageable. If you don't see how to make something that may work, I will try to help you 
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