atreiu

Great, I think the "Tags from files" can be very useful!
 
But I'm not sure about the other function. Can you give me some more information, please?
1.) What does the "Save Tags" - function do? Save them to where?
2.) What divides the "Set Tag"-function of your add-on from the default Metadata-Editor? Why should I use yours?

Thanks!

JimmyV2

Cool.
The other way round it would be useful, too.
Maybe you can add this feature =)

atreiu

Thanks for the answers!

1.) I use the about:config hack to save the data directly, but I think your function is better if someone uses shared music files.

2.) The metadata-editor can be used to edit multiple selected items, too. It even gives a little bit better visual feedback (f.e. you can see, which tags are already the same). But it doesn't hurt to have an similar function in your add-on. ;-)

Can you tell me something about the supported files for meta-data writing to the files? Does it save only to mp3, or also flac and wma?

Jerome

Good idea! I like this!!!!

klint

Seems excellent, thanks for the idea (and the work as well :)

atreiu

Hey Horazont,
Over at the getsatisfaction, there is someone with problems on how to use your tagger. Would you mind to take a look and help out? We all are curious how it will work out! (I'm not brave enough to try something like that on my own library, yet ;-) Thanks!

cmaluend

Hi,
Would be great if Tagger supports Year and Cd Number for the metadata. I have all my music like:

artist/year - album/track - song title

Also, I have had some problems with some titles, does tagger support unicode?.

I am using songbird in a linux.

Cheers,
Cristian.

dtay

is this like tagging from web like media monkey? cause i use that for tagging and i'd like songbird to be my be all of music

hendo_s

I don't know really how you'd do it, but Winamp has an integrated Send-To > Auto-Tag feature, so I'm sure you could implement that sort of thing in this. It looks up via CDDB, but you'd need to trawl through Winamp's files, because I would not be able to tell you where it is - no clue =\

Hellstorm

Could you please update this to work with the newer versions of songbird? I've just downloaded the program and this is a feature I'd really really like, but I can't install it.

Hellstorm

Thanks! Songbird is now perfect.

theschwanz

Will this also change the tags in the source-files?
If so, how?

thanks!~

n0rb

The add-on is great. But it seems to me that the "Tags from file" feature does not support non-alphanumeric characters in the file names. I have a lot of files with Cyrillic and Unicode names in my library, and filename patterns do not work :(

n0rb

By the way, adding a reverse feature "File Name from Tags" would be really great!

n0rb

Cool! Thanks for the fix. Everything works fine now.

klint

Hello Horazont

Thanks to your excellent extension, tagging my music and especially my podcasts has become a pleasure, really!
Doing this, some ideas for further tag management features came to my mind. Here there are, if by any chance you were willing to integrate them in Tagger.

- String replacement: from a tab looking like the "Save to file" one, you may select all or some of the tags, enter a string to be replaced and a replacement string, and pressing Go would do the string replacement in all selected tags from the selected files

- Incremental numbering of Track Number: you may enter the starting number, possibly an increment (1 by default), and pressing Go would take the selected files in the order they appear on the screen (previously sorted by any tag), and then apply incremental numbering on those track numbers, starting from the entered starting number. You could offer the option to pad numbers with zeros.

- the ACME would be the support of macro: one could record several changes to be applied in a bulk to the selected files.

-another extension does it already, but allowing to copy artist into (empty) album artist for the selected files would allow to do all tagging actions from Tagger.

These are the ones I missed today :)
Will come back later for sure.

Thanks again

klint

Here I am again
One left for the trip:

- in the "Set" tab, instead of setting selected tags of selected files to a fixed value, why not allow placeholder like %t, %n, %... to allow to copy one etag into another(s).

klint

Another request:
- Have an option for not being asked for confirmation when applying changes
- Have an option to autocommit (ie write to file) changes done when pressing Ok in other tabs than "Save"

Thanks a lot

benniy

great work! finally something useful for tagging :D

n0rb

Good job! It's nice to see a new useful feature. Unfortunately, file renaming doesn't seem to work :( I tried it on ~10 different tracks in different folders, and every time i get an error message which says "DEBUG: Skipped due to exception".
The Error Console is empty.
I can provide more system information if necessary.

Tagger version: 0.6.1.0.

n0rb

I looked through your code a little bit. The problem was with the forward slashes in the paths ("/").
As a result, file.initWithPath() and dir.initWithPath() functions did not work in Windows.

I slightly modified the JS code for renaming files (converted all paths to "<drive>:\<path>\<filename>") format, and it seems to have solved the problem for Windows.

jigarshah

Isn't this same as media management currently in SB ? I feel this allows manually changing them instead automatically like SB does ? I am bit confused how and why to use this.

klint

Thanks (again ;) ) for your answer, it is very positive. I really see Tagger as THE tagging extension for Songbird.

About the tokens in the set-tab, the target value would actually be built like in the Tag->Name panel, wouldn't it?

About incremental Track Number, this is mostly for Podcasts retagging, when there is no useful sorted value to put (and listen) episodes in the right order. This is the case for podcasts I download from the French public radio...
The idea behind is for me to select manually the tracks, by using mouse+Ctrl, and then use Tagger to replace Track Numbers within the selection, incremented in the order the tracks were selected (I hope the selection object does keep track of that :)
But I agree, this is not top priority :)

Before leaving, may I add another wish?
- Add the Year and the Comment field to the "Set" and "Save" panels

Again, many thanks (totally deserved).

klint

And about the confirmation popup, maybe it will be simpler to do it when you address the autocommit one? I suppose you will have an option somewhere for autocommit. Why not just adding another option for "Do not ask for update confirmation" in addition to the latter, at the same place? and do not change anything in the popup themselves (no "do not ask me again")...
Just my 2cts ;)

n0rb

Horazont:

About the path delimiters. Maybe this can be a workaround:
1. Build path delimited with forward slashes.
2. Try to initialize file, using path from (1).
3. If an exception is thrown (we can check for specific code/message, or catch any of them):
   a. Build Windows-style path.
   b. Try to initialize file.
... And so on, for every other format we want to check ...

Using this approach, we can determine which format is successful, can even remember it somewhere for future usage :)

I hope this can be useful for you.
Greetings.

klint

Hi Horazont
Kudos for this very swift update! The work is perfect, I was able to complete the tagging of my podcasts.

Doing this, I have noted a few glitches:

- when opening the option windows, error is fired:
Error: this._window.arguments is undefined
Source File: chrome://tagger/content/options.js
Line: 4

- when saving or cancelling option, options are not saved
Error: Controller is null
Source File: chrome://tagger/content/options.xul
Line: 1

- despite my system is WinXP, the value I find in the option is Unixoid (and cannot be changed to to the bugs above). Renaming the files does not work.

- "Year" tag is named "Album name" (a second one) in the Set and Replace panel

Many thanks

klint

horazon
everything is working fine now, except the renaming feature that has still the same issue on Windows. The OS is now recognized properly as Microsoid though.
Thanks again

klint

Horazont
I have tried it and it still does not work, but I think the reason is that the calculated delimiter is not applied to the source filename, but only to the target filename (while both were incorret in the previous version).

klint

Bingo!
Renaming works fine on Windows now.
Thanks

klint

@everybody
Horazont has done a very good job indeed, and his extension takes Songbird tagging feature to the next level!
Try it and spread the word :)

@horazont
is your extension localizable? are you ready to move it to babelzilla.org?

and I even have a last feature request before you leave for the week ;).
Here is goes:
Often, I have to retag podcast episode with the actual subject of the episode, that is not given in the podcast file itlself, but that is available on the website of the radio. So I end of with a text file, containing one line per episode.
So I was wondering if the method of selection you have introduced for Track Numbers could not be extended to apply a text file to a given tag:
- I create a text file containing the track titles, 1 per line
- I select a set of tracks as in the Track Numbers panel
- then your extension would copy each line of the text file into the Track name tag of each corresponding track, in the same order they were selected before, in a synchronized way.
Does this make sense?
And may be this can be extended to other fields as well, but track title is the most important to me.

Have a nice week.

Simon

Thanks for this - its really great.

Could you please add album artist and composer as parser tokens? I sort my tracks by album artist (if any) or artist or composer. (Maybe there's some way you could relate your parser tokens to media Item properties that would allow any property to be accessed?)

Simon

klint

Horazont:
I wouldn't dare asking such a complexity, but that sounds so great that I already miss it ;)
The example you give can be generated by any text editor, and even excel.
So the file would look like:

%a\t%t\n
Bob Dylan\tAll along the watchtower\n
Bob Dylan\tWhen he returns\n

Great!

Catch_33

Hi Horazont, thank you for this useful add-on! I think that it will replace all utilities for organization of my library!
I want warn you of a problem whit the function "store tags": when i install the tagger addon, it works fine, but the second time i try to use it, it doesn't rename or move my files! If i uninstall the tagger or reset my songbird configuration, it works, but only the firs time! I don't know the reason of this problem and i don't know if it's a bug or a corruption of my database. I use this pattern for filename:
%a/%??y - %??b/%:2??n - %t

The error console gives me this strings:

Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80520012 (NS_ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND) [nsILocalFile.moveTo]" nsresult: "0x80520012 (NS_ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND)" location: "JS frame :: chrome://tagger/content/tagger-rename.js :: anonymous :: line 239" data: no]

I hope that this post will be usefull...thanks!

Catch_33

I've just read the post of klint, so i tried to use \ instead of / and now the store tags works fine, but there are some files that i can't move. The pattern is this:
%a\%??y - %??b\%??c - %:2??n - %t

And the error is always the same:

Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE) [nsILocalFile.moveTo]" nsresult: "0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE)" location: "JS frame :: chrome://tagger/content/tagger-rename.js :: anonymous :: line 239" data: no]

Thank you...Have a nice day!!

Catch_33

i readed your answer after my second post..so i have to try your solutions later...thank u again!!

Catch_33

Hi Horazont, i tried your solutions.
The value of "extensions.tagger.osflag" is "1". In the configuration, i think that all is correct and the error console doesn't give me messages. I checked the option "automatically commit changes". My OS is windows vista, so i selected "microsoftoid".

I tried to move other files and on some of these (all of the same folder) the operation doesn't match, without notices in songbird except the same error i wrote before on the error console. On others files (of a same folder), i see a pop-up message: "DEBUG:could not enforce path", without errors on console. The preview of file name pattern is always correct, but after nothing happens :-(
I tried to erase again my database file to reset it and after this on some files that didn't match before, the operation goes right, but not with all files.

I noticed another problem with some files: when i try to create tags by filename, the preview goes right, but if i apply the tags, i see a window that ask me to tag manually the songs!
For example i have this file: "mr Smith - 01 - mr Smith song.mp3" and i try to rename with this format: "%a - %n - %t", but it doesn't remane it automatcally!

Thank you again!

Catch_33

ps: i resolved the problem whit tags that doesn't match automatically unchecking "keep existing tags"

Catch_33

Hello! Thank u for answers. I hope that my posts will be useful for your great addon!
I tried to rename the folder of files that give me the error "DEBUG:could not enforce path" (i thinked that the reason was that folder name were too long), but the problem it's always the same...could it depends by metadata?
Good week!! ;)

Catch_33

I think i found the bug :)
I tried to move the same files that gave me errors. The java error of popup window is this:

Could not enforce path.
From: d:\adunanza seb\adunanza incoming\guano apes\walking on a thin line\01 - you can't stop me.mp3
To: Guano Apes \2003 - Walking On A Thin Line\01 - You Cant Stop Me.mp3
Error: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80520012 (NS_ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND) [nsILocalFile.create]" nsresult: "0x80520012 (NS_ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND)" location: "JS frame :: chrome://tagger/content/tagger-rename.js :: anonymous :: line 230" data: no]

ANd the error console gives me this messages:

Error: [Exception... "'JavaScript component does not have a method named: "observe"' when calling method: [nsIObserver::observe]" nsresult: "0x80570030 (NS_ERROR_XPC_JSOBJECT_HAS_NO_FUNCTION_NAMED)" location: "JS frame :: file:///C:/Program%20Files%20(x86)/Songbird/components/nsSearchService.js :: notifyAction :: line 650" data: no]
Source File: file:///C:/Program%20Files%20(x86)/Songbird/components/nsSearchService.js
Line: 650

Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80520012 (NS_ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND) [nsILocalFile.moveTo]" nsresult: "0x80520012 (NS_ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND)" location: "JS frame :: chrome://tagger/content/tagger-rename.js :: anonymous :: line 241" data: no]

Error: [Exception... "'JavaScript component does not have a method named: "observe"' when calling method: [nsIObserver::observe]" nsresult: "0x80570030 (NS_ERROR_XPC_JSOBJECT_HAS_NO_FUNCTION_NAMED)" location: "JS frame :: file:///C:/Program%20Files%20(x86)/Songbird/components/nsSearchService.js :: notifyAction :: line 650" data: no]
Source File: file:///C:/Program%20Files%20(x86)/Songbird/components/nsSearchService.js
Line: 650

So, i tried to move the files individually instead of all folder and i observed that it works good, except files that have tags with unsupported letters, like "/" or "\". So i tried to rewrite tags (for example "Soul Intro-The Chicken" instead of "Soul Intro/The Chicken") and it works good! But if i try to move all the folder and there is just one tag whit unsupported tyipings, the operation stops with this file whit the popup window error above.
ps: i noticed also that the function "replace _ whit spaces" doesn't works in the tag creation

Catch_33

Thanks to you!
 Now all my files was correctly moved, except a single mp3, but i don't know the reason, maybe a problem withthe library...i think it could be very useful to replace automatically characters not allowed!
However thank you for the effort and avaibility!
Have a good weekend! ;-)

klint

Thanks Horazon for this big update.
I haven't found time enough to test the text file import, but I have translated Tagger though.
It is ready to be tested in French on Babelzilla ( board topic there: http://www.babelzilla.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=5546 )

klint

By the way, horazont: is the menu entry for Tagger still available? was not able to find it. Or is it only on the left panel now? Both are still referenced in the Welcome page.
By the way, is there a way for the user to redisplay this Welcome page? Maybe allowing it from the about Tagger could be helpful.
And also, may be a short introductory text at the top of each feature's panel, like you did for the last features, would be useful (there is none for Create from file name and also for Track numbers).
Thanks

klint

Thanks Horazont. strangely, Babelzilla has not shown that you had updated the files...
About the introductory text per feature, the one for Track Numbers is there, actually, but empty in English. I have fill it in in French though. So only the one for Create from Filename is missing.
Just one other small detail: all "Apply" buttons in each panel have a specific detailed label, but Track Number and From Text file (they share a generic label "Apply"). Maybe having also separate and descriptive labels could help.
Anyway, I have updated the French version.

klint

Horazont. I'm trying to reach you by mail, but the address found in the About gets rejected!

klint

My mistake and my shame... I had a typo :) Mail on its way.

klint

@Horazont
Thanks for the localized updates.

Here is another feature idea, complementary with the From Textfile one. It is the export side of it (To TextFile): using the same track selection mechanism, we could select a pattern and export tags of all selected tracks in a text file using this pattern. End of line within tags should be handled by using a placeholder like \n or
, per option configuration...Page code could also be set.
What do you think?

Regards

klint

Actually, the purpose of the text export is more like:
- export tags for a list of tracks
- import them in a DB or in Excel
- do all the cleanup /transformation of data you need in this DB/Excel
- generate a text file with corrected info
- import again in the tracks using the FromText feature

Or simply to list all tracks, like a library catalogue...

Page code was "encoding" actually, but I 'm not sure it applies here.

klint

And speaking of which:
http://getsatisfaction.com/songbird/topics/functions_add_on_for_export_a_library_into_csv_files

:)

alejandroid

Not sure if something's messed up with my songbird..but I can't really find where to open up an instance of tagger?

klint

It is available in the right panel.

Alastair

There's no way to make it move/organsie files by genre, is there? I can't seem to find it. For example /Rock/The Beatles/.... (/%genre%/%artist%/...). There seems to be everything else but a genre option unless I'm missing it.

TOMORMARION

trying to download I get an error message saying tagger 2.3.2 is not compatable with firefox 3.5.3

klint

@Tomormation: maybe you are simply downloading it from Firefox... then it tries to install in in Firefox?
It is much easier if you download it from within Songbird. In Songbird, open a new tab, navigate to this page, and click on Install. It will install in Songbird directly?

@horazont: good luck for your exams :)

Catch_33

Hello Horazont...i have a problem with tags by filename with directory support...i have a structure like this: "E:\Music\Artist\2006 - Album name\01 - track name.mp3" and i used a name format like this: "%a\%y - %b\%n - %t"...it's all right, except of artist, because it gives me a tag like this "File:\\\E:\Music\Artist". It gives me the correct tag only if i write the entire structure (File:\\\E:\Musica\%a\%y - %b\%n - %t)
Bye!

ps: in store tag to file name i think it could be usefull a function to auto-substitute invalid characters in filenames..for example, if i have a tag with colons, when i try to rename the pattern it gives me an error, so i have to rename tags before...it's very boring when i have to rename a lot of files with strange characters! :)

Catch_33

Thanks to you for attention! For the special characters, i thinked for example to a check box to give the choice, or an automatic function that gives the possibility to decide what characters i want to substitute in renaming files (like the "replace_whit spaces")...or just a windows with manual renaming like in the tag creation...i don't know if this is so complicated..it's just an idea! ^_^
Good luck!

jedypod

Greetings,
Thanks for the excellent and useful plugin.

I have noticed what seems to be a bug. In the Store Tags -> To file name tab, the "Target Directory" box is initially empty, and when I try to select a directory, the field fills with garbage characters, such as "AAAAAAEWAAIAAQdzbm9ybGF4AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAADGhQq9SCsAAAAAAAEHc25vcmxheAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAsaFCr0AAAAAAAAAAP////8AAAkAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAB3Nub3JsYXgAABAACAAAxoVtLQAAABEACAAAxoVtLQAAAAEAAAACAA9zbm9ybGF4OnNub3JsYXgAAA4AEAAHAHMAbgBvAHIAbABhAHgADwAQAAcAcwBuAG8AcgBsAGEAeAASAAAAEwAQL1ZvbHVtZXMvc25vcmxheP//AAA=".

When I then try to preview or rename the selected files, it says "Target directory is invalid".

I am running Songbird 1.2.0 in OSX 10.6.1. It would be great if this feature worked properly, because this is a feature that I haven't been able to locate in any other software for OSX.

I hope this error is my own, or an easy to fix bug. Thanks, and Regards!

ParanoidSardine

I just wanted to say that I'm experiencing the same problem as jedypod, both when doing the "To file name" Store tags function and when selecting a text file in the create tags => text file area.

I have the same setup as jedypod. I'm going to try hand entering the file.

ParanoidSardine

Update...

I can manually enter the location of the text file in the create tags => text file area, but it's not allowing me to manually edit the "To File Name" function.

admanb

Same problem here with junk data in the Target directory box after clicking ... to select a location. My music is stored on a mounted volume that is my NAS drive that holds all my music. I'm hoping to use this to fix my messy library. No ability to manually key in a Target directory. A fix for this would be greatly appreciated! Using OSX 10.6.1 with Songbird 1.2.0 (same setup as jedypod and ParanoidSardine). Thanks in advance!

admanb

I should note that even when selecting a location that is not on the NAS, I get the junk characters for the Target directory.

ParanoidSardine

Thanks for allowing that access to the directory. Unfortunately, I completed the work I needed to do yesterday, but will test it again soon.

ParanoidSardine

I'm having troubles with one feature, likely because I'm doing something wrong. I'm trying to rename 10 FLAC files from text in a .txt file. The contents of the .txt file are:

01. Sirens
02. A Father's Son
03. Voice of Reason
04. A Rook House For Bobby
05. We Were Kings
06. Victress
07. Terra Nova
08. Sea of Regrets
09. We Saw the Deep
10. Spencer Perceval

In Create Tags => Text File, I defined the pattern "%n. %t" in Data Pattern, placed all 10 tracks in the track field. I defined the .txt file in Text file. When I click "Apply data from text file to tracks in list" it renames only the first track.The track name is changed to:

"Sirens 02. A Father's Son 03. Voice of Reason 04. A Rook House For Bobby 05. We Were Kings 06. Victress 07. Terra Nova 08. Sea of Regrets 09. We Saw the Deep 10. Spencer Perceval"

I kinda feel like I'm doing something wrong here. Can you help?

Thanks!

ParanoidSardine

Ok...fixed that last problem by inserting commas between the track instead of carriage returns. I redefined the patter "%n. %t, " and it did the trick.

New problem now ;)

Since you fixed the target directory input, I've been able to specify the folder I want the tracks saved to; however, when I preview, the New name field becomes something like:

"AAAAAAEWAAIAAQdzbm9ybGF4AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAADGhQq9SCsAAAAAAAEHc25vcmxheAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAsaFCr0AAAAAAAAAAP////8AAAkAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAB3Nub3JsYXgAABAACAAAxoVtLQAAABEACAAAxoVtLQAAAAEAAAACAA9zbm9ybGF4OnNub3JsYXgAAA4AEAAHAHMAbgBvAHIAbABhAHgADwAQAAcAcwBuAG8AcgBsAGEAeAASAAAAEwAQL1ZvbHVtZXMvc25vcmxheP//AAA=/10 - Spencer Perceval.flac"

When I go to rename the files, nothing happens, likely because it cannot find the folder.

Thanks!

Btw...I'm loving this plugin. Once these bugs get worked out, it'll be awesome.

phevans

I'm having a problem with the Modify Tags -> Set & Combine functionality. I want to populate my artist tag with the value from album artist, but if I set Artist to %r it inputs that literal string, rather than the value from the other field. Same with composer, but album and tracknumber work OK. Am I being stupid?

egabrum

It is awesome! Just what I was looking for.
2 improvement suggestion:

1) Add the %g to rename files by genre! (how did you miss that?) :)
2) Integrate with Musicbrainz or similar to get the tag from the net (like Mediamonkey does)

phevans

Horazont: you're a legend, thankyou! For the record I can't find any other piece of Linux tagging software which has this functionality, so you're attempting something unique :)

Watching with interest . . . .

egabrum

Wow! I now have the %genre% tag that I wanted, in only about 1 week...
Thanks!

gukguk3

How might I extract the year from a filename in a four digit format? All I can seem to get is a two digit format, even though the file has four digits. Is there an option, or should it just automatically distinguish between two and four digits?

alembic

Hi, no data shows up in the tag text boxes for a selected track. I'm using flac files. Songbird's default tag editor works fine (albeit slowly). What am I doing wrong? Thanks.

trueshanti

i files a bug under http://bugzilla.songbirdnest.com/show_bug.cgi?id=19464 .. for i get XML-errors .. first time install .. not working

XML-Verarbeitungsfehler: Nicht definierte Entität
Adresse: chrome://tagger/content/tagger.xul
Zeile Nr. 95, Spalte 9: <tab class="tagger-tab" />
--------^

ineffable

Great add-on!

Would it be possible to add a lyrics field, since Lyricmaster does not appear to save to metadata?

klint

Just one comment on Lyricmaster: it is supposed to save data (it does for me at least). Check the Lyricmaster settings :)
Also, do not use Windows explorer to check tags, it is not able to read id3v2.4 tags.

JohnM

Could you add an option to convert the existing tags to proper case? So if the title is 'a track name' it would be converted to 'A Track Name'?

JohnM

Horazont: Thank you

jeno

Just downloaded Songbird and Tagger as well
I can't seem to put Tagger into the right toolbar like you've put it.
help?

jeno

sorry! please ignore the last post.

arizon

hi
where do i find a how to
i want write the interpret to albuminterpret. I did this before but it was not saved. It was easy and the add on works great unfortunatly I have no Idea how I did it.
thanks

Tilka

@Horazont:
Could you fix the proper-casing feature to not take ' as a word separator please? Right now it turns "let's" into "Let'S" instead of "Let's".

Also please make Tagger support the latest Songbird Beta version (1.6.0b2).

Thank you for your great add-on! :-)

arizon

I found the help button with the parser help ;-)
it was easy: just choose albumartist und put %artist% in the line. Thats it. This time I save it.
thanks great add-on

tMPC

Great tool!
could you implement that it can also save the album artwork? songbird seems to have problems writing album art to all of the files. tagger helped with the same problem for text tags, so I think it should work.

madcooper

I have the same Problem as ParanoidSardine. Im working on a Snowleopard System (10.6.2) with Songbird 1.4.3 and Tagger 0.9.1.1. Any new informations on that bug? I would really love to use that function!!!

rohri

Hi, this tool is really great. Exactly what I was looking for...

One thing I couldn't get to work:

I tried to pad the disc and track numbers in some mp3 files so all of them can be ordered correctly. I used the pattern %:2disc% (and a lot of variations). Tagger worked a while but didn't change anything. Padding worked partly when I tried to change the track numbers by prefixing them with the disc number. By using the pattern %:2disc%%:2track% I could change f.e. track 1 on cd 1 to 101. But I wanted it to be 0101.

What am I doing wrong here?

Thanx alot in advance,
   rohri

rohri

Hi Horazont,

my problem occurred during modification of ID3-Tags, not filenames. I didn't try it there yet.

I will give the update a try...

G00dY

Can't get it to do any thing.. Downloaded it, installed it, added a macro, pressed "Execute", and nothing happens.. Basicly, I probaly doesn't understand a thing :S

klint

Hi Horazont
Hope your fine :)

Say, have you by any chance reconsidered your decision about supporting this addon? On the other side, I understand it, following the drop of official support for Linux.
Anyway, be sure that I would be happy to carry on the localization into French :)

At least, would you mind updating the Max version to 1.8, with the same disclaimer about tests? I've been using it with 1.7 and 1.8 without any problem so far.

Thanks for all the work you've done :)

kanzeon

Hi Horazont.

First of all, thanks for your add-on.
I'm trying it, and I think it will be really cool, but I can't use it, as some people said before, when a set the target directory I get garbage like AAAAAAD6AAIAAQVTYXRjaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAQkQAAf////8FTXVzaWMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA/////wAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAP////8AAAoAY3UAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABVNhdGNoAAACABUvOlZvbHVtZXM6U2F0Y2g6TXVzaWMAAA4ADAAFAE0AdQBzAGkAYwAPAAwABQBTAGEAdABjAGgAEgAGL011c2ljABMADi9Wb2x1bWVzL1NhdGNo//8AAA==

And if a set it manually and hit preview garbage again in the output filename

I use OsX 1.6.4 and SongBird 1.8.0 (1800)

therobbot

@Horazont: First of all: great extension! I'm also on OSX and have the weird file name problem. I just debugged and I think what you should change is to replace the places where you use a "persistentDescriptor" to get a file name by "path" (e.g. in rename.js). According to https://developer.mozilla.org/en/nsILocalFile the persistentDescriptor is not meant for displaying. It seems that on OSX it is not a readable string. Using "path" here works on OSX. You will need to test on Linux and Windows. Hope this helps!

klint

@therobbot (or other developers reading this page)

AS you may have read just above, Horazont has no way to go on with the development of this excellent addon, as POTI has dropped the official suppport of SB on Unix, which is the plaftorm he is using.

So, unless things are happening behind the scene, this addon is looking for a new developer.
I'm no developer, yet I can definitely go on helping by testing on Windows and translating in French as I was doing for Horazont.
But maybe you are one (reading your last post here :) ), and you'd be interesting in taking over that addon?
Don't hesitate to get in touch by mail with Horazont then!

Just asking, by chance :)
Thanks

therobbot

I indeed am. However, I'm not sure I will have the necessary time to take over the project, although I'd be happy to help with it. Thing is, I'm not even sure yet if I will stick to Songbird as a player. I will think about it, however.

What's more, I didn't find the email address of Horazont in the "About" section of the plugin... can you point me to where I can find it?

klint

Hi therobbot
His email address is actually in the "About Tagger" section in the Help menu of Songbird :)

For sure, sticking to Songbird would help. Actually and reverse, having an fully operational Tagger extension can help sticking to Songbird ;)
This is your call, but from what I see, Songbird seems to have found the right pace again, with all the perf improvements in 1.9, and the alignment of the OSX version to the Windows one, features wise. Maybe that will be enough to keep you here?
I hope so!

Charles_Wong

I've just installed this plugin, but when I restart Songbird to complete the installation, it showed a "Crash Report",I can't restart it now. Could anybody tell me the reason? I downloaded this "Songbird" from Philips, and the version is 1.7.1.

alternapop

I'd like a tagging tool that can tag moods and more accurate genres (exactly like what allmusic.com) provides. I realize that Allmusic doesn't allow this but I know there is another tool that does something similar. (http://tiptoes.hobby-site.com/mbz/lastfm/)

Accurate and cleanliness is very important. I don't need a bunch of mood/genre tags filled with juvenile and inaccurate descriptors. ("sucks", "seen live", etc)

I use a Mac so that would be preferred. Has anyone figured this out? I'd be fine if it scraped Allmusic slow enough that the wouldn't ban the app.

Thanks!

aMiraLee

This is a bit embarrassing but...I have no clue how to work this. I've found Tagger macro editor. I did not get anything like the ones from the screencaps. I was wondering if anyone could help me work this out.

Thanks

klint

@MiraLee
- Open the right pane by clicking on the arrow: http://vvcap.net/db/F5uL2mYZFraP79G-dcqt.htp
- Click on the Pane Options icon and select Tagger
http://vvcap.net/db/yE_PxAsGMM2r72zkkOzx.htp

sabret00the

Awesome. Definitely worth five stars!

jenifoo

Hellooo =)

I find tagger very useful, but I cant get the text to file function to work and I feel like such a noob but can someone help me out here?

I want to use the Create tags > Text file function. I have a txt file with track number-song title-artist (I am trying to tag a mix of different artists) with each track on a different line. I am defining the data pattern as "%n%-%t%-%a% \n" but when I click Apply it says it cant match anything in the text file. I have encoding set to ASCII (not sure is that is right) and skip entries is 0.

Please help? Would appreciate it greatly

Thanks

Nagapeso

Hi everybody.
I would like to know if there is a way to tag in IDV2.3 in your great add-on instead of IDV2.4.

I guess you know why I am asking for that; windows f**k**g 7 is late (again), and can't read IDV2.4.

If it's not possible yet, did you plan to make it possible?

Regards,
Nagapeso