camaron wrote:
I'm not really sure, probably not. I need to check it out. Well this is major by the way, if it is true. Questions:
1-Can i transfer my old labels to the files and if so how?
2-Back to my point: are these labels searchable?
1. I also would like to know this. It's a good question for anonbeat.
In the worst case you would have to reapply all the labels. Dynamic playlists would be useful for that, but it can be tedious if you have many labels.
2. If by searchable you mean that what you write on the search box is searched in the labels tags, the answer is no. However, labels are searchable in the sense that you can select all the songs with a given label.
tamalet wrote: If by searchable you mean that what you write on the search box is searched in the labels tags, the answer is no. However, labels are searchable in the sense that you can select all the songs with a given label.
Yes, that's what i mean of course: searchable through the search box like any other tag.
I was thinking that a way to search within comment and labels (but not lyrics) is by creating a dynamic playlist. It's not so convenient as just typing on the search box, but it's more powerful because you can use "contains", "is", "begins with", etc.
I ended knocking up a quick java app to copy the label tag into the comment field for an entire directory tree recursively, which works just fine for my purposes. Thanks tamalet for the suggestion - I hadn't considered it.
I chose java only because it's what I'm familiar with. I initially tried to keep this simple by using id3v2 on the command with shell script but id3v2 couldn't read the v2.4 custom tag at all. So I ended up using Jaudiotagger java library.
If anyone would like this jar or the source, let me know.
How are you going to use the tags in the comment field now? I feel curious about this because for what I know guayadeque is not able to search or filter there.
As I mentioned, I want to use the labels in 'smart playlists' served up by firefly (which can't read the custom label field, but can read the standard comment field).
If I was only using guayadeque alone, I wouldn't need this feature.