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Editing metadata for genres and composers

Sorry, but I have another question...

I have a small handful of songs currently on my phone while I'm testing out Foobar2000, and I want to edit the genres on a lot of them. Some read "Christian" while others read "Christian & Gospel"; obviously this should be all one category. The Star Wars music that reads as "Film" is understandable, but I would rather change it to the more descriptive "Soundtrack." Then I have a handful of classic rock songs that Foobar2000 can't identify and so labels them as (Unknown Genre).

There doesn't seem to be a way to edit it in the mobile version itself; the program seems to only report the information that's already there. The wrench icon points to a place where I can choose the playback order, change the location of the folder that it looks in, etc., but there doesn't seem to be a place to edit this information.

I found a way to edit the genre by right-clicking the files, choosing "Properties," and then changing the genre under the "Details" tab .... but that's all under the hard drive. When I use File Explorer on the songs directly on the phone, "Details" doesn't allow me that level of editing.

I also can't find where to edit composers vs. conductors and other artists. Again using my Star Wars music as an example, I have an "Empire Strikes Back" album officially done by Williams himself, and I also have another version of the album by conductor Charles Gerhardt. The metadata keeps defaulting to Williams as the performer, and treats both albums as though they're the exact same recording.

Plugging in my phone automatically pops up Windows Media Player, so I tried syncing the data that way, but WMP freaks out looking at the content on my phone, providing even fewer details about album name, artist, etc., and quadruplicating tracks that are actually only on my phone once.

Is there something I'm missing? Do I need to have the desktop version of Foobar2000 to edit and to act in sync with the mobile version?

I'm really enjoying the app so far; just a few more growing pains I'm trying to get through in terms of learning to use this. Thanks (again) in advance!

Re: Editing metadata for genres and composers

Reply #1 –
Quote from: TomH1138 on
There doesn't seem to be a way to edit it in the mobile version itself; the program seems to only report the information that's already there.
There's no way to edit it in the mobile and assuming that it is quite uncomfortable to edit things on a mobile phone, I don't think this is on Peter's top of his to-do-list.

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I also can't find where to edit composers vs. conductors and other artists.
There are fields for composer and the performer (=conductor) plus album artists.
If you have more than one, you can enter them comma-separated - that's at least what I do.

These fields are more or less commonly used by players, but you can also add your own, which won't get displayed in typical players.

Re: Editing metadata for genres and composers

Reply #2 –
Quote from: pyr452 on
There's no way to edit it in the mobile and assuming that it is quite uncomfortable to edit things on a mobile phone, I don't think this is on Peter's top of his to-do-list.

Understandable.

Quote from: pyr452 on
There are fields for composer and the performer (=conductor) plus album artists.
If you have more than one, you can enter them comma-separated - that's at least what I do.

These fields are more or less commonly used by players, but you can also add your own, which won't get displayed in typical players.

But where do I enter and add them, since it can't be done on the mobile? Is it a matter of syncing up the PC version with the mobile version, or something?

Re: Editing metadata for genres and composers

Reply #3 –
I haven't tried this on my own: the desktop version of foobar2000 isn't able to edit those files when you drag the PTP or MTP folder into it?

Re: Editing metadata for genres and composers

Reply #4 –
Quote from: pyr452 on
I haven't tried this on my own: the desktop version of foobar2000 isn't able to edit those files when you drag the PTP or MTP folder into it?

I don't know because I don't have the desktop version. I was just asking if the desktop version was necessary for this.

Thankfully, I'm now able to edit metadata. Apparently, I was lacking some kind of permission on Windows 10, but I found this article - "How to enable UPnP in Windows" - and it seems to have helped:

https://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch001367.htm

There are still a few I'm struggling with editing - possibly due to DRM? - but things are running much smoother now.

Thank you for the time and attention, pyr452!