Hello Everyone,

I'm tagging mpc's with Tag.exe and there's one tag situation I can't figure out after researching and experimenting. It occurs when there is more than one artist entry to distinguish.

Everything I've tried takes the first artist designation, puts it appropriately in the artist field, then directs all subsequent blocks to the title field (the exception is Monkey's tagger which lets me set up multiple artist blocks and puts them correctly in the artist field - but only for ape files. When I try the same setup for mpc it writes an ID3v2 tag, which, of course, among other things, is too limited.

Here's an example:

Mozart - C.Cantiere, Mozart Festival Orch. - Symphony No.28 in C Major - K.200 - Menuetto - Allegretto & Trio DCQ2JR~1.68

In this example I want the composer, conductor, and orchestra (2 blocks, bolded) in the artist field exactly as written in the filename. The rest, with (-) separators, in the title field. Nothing more (well, a comment but that's easy). Sometimes, a filename will call for 3 blocks in the artist field, etc.. Also, I've put a lot of time and forethought into filenames and don't want to change those to make tags.

In the example above, with the user defined scheme option in TAG Frontend 1.5.1, Apev2 with mpc, and the command A - A - T - T - T - T, for instance, I get Mozart in the artist field, the rest in the title field.

An easier example would be:

Elgar - A.Fiedler, Boston Pops - Pomp & Circumstance No.1 VQ3+JRE~, where the scheme A - A - T also puts Elgar in the artist field, the rest in the title field. Scheme combinations I've tried can get the #2 artist block (A.Fiedler, Boston Pops) to stay in the artist field but loses the composer (Elgar) altogether.

I've tried command line DOS with Tag.exe but my DOS skills are very limited. But I could go that way if I absolutely had to.

Any help would be sincerely appreciated.

Note: The letter/# combinations at the very end of the filename represent a rather complex code I developed and contains information I need. I mention this and included representative examples in the event there could be 'character' problems or conflicts.

Does this happen so often that you can't enter the tags manually?

Hi Jan,

The filename has never tagged properly in Tag.exe.. Monkey's tagger will do it - ex. filename: Bing Crosby - Grace Kelly - True Love. The scheme in Monkey's is Artist: %1 - %2: and Title: %3.

I just can't get Tag to do it with mpc's. The best I can tell, the Tag.exe scheme A - A - T should work - it justs puts everything but the first block (the first A) in the title field. I've thought of doing it that way and then manually correcting it - but there's just too many files, and it would take much more time than I have.