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General - (fb2k) / Re: Editing tags in foobar
Last post by musimath -
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Quote from: Case on
The failing files are inside ZIP-archive. That fully explains all the failures you see. I'm quite certain these files have never been tagged with TagScanner either, it's just a special feature of foobar2000 that it can play and show these without manually extracting them first.
You should either remove the zip archives from your music collection or change your exclusion filter from "*.CUE" to "*.CUE;*.ZIP".

I changed the exclusion filter to "*.CUE;*.ZIP". Formerly I had only *.cue, without quotation marks and lower-case letters.

Dear Case,
Most music files I own were ripped from CDs, using EAC. Not extracted from zip files. And zip files, in case they were present, were excluded from the folder containing each album. I use two HDDs. After tagging each album in the first HDD with TagScanner I copy it to the second HDD. I did this with each album. It was a more than a year work.
After changing the exclusion filter, I closed fb2k, open it again and I didn't find differences.
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General - (fb2k) / Re: Editing tags in foobar
Last post by musimath -
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Sorry, just talking about my own experience...
My primary collection management tool is not fb2k but File Explorer. I find it hard to deal with more than 500 subfolders per level (just my Bach and Beethoven folders contain 1500 within 4 or 5 sub-levels/folders).
Maybe you could also consider adding some subfolder structure to avoid that 'all or nothing' situation.

This is also a big subject by itself and a bit off-topic now... hope you can solve the current issue thanks to @Case latest post!

Thank you. Could you please explain with more detail? What does it mean that your collection management tool is not fb2k but File Explorer? I also use File Explorer to define/manage the collections, and TagScanner to normalize tags. I have several collections (folders in File Explorer), LR_Classical, HR_Classical, HR_NonClassical, ...., none of them as large as LR_Classical, and I had no problems with them. I use one portable fb2k instance for each collection. Perhaps I should consider creating some subfolders of LR_Classical and to incorporate them to a single? fb2k separately? Or use separate instances of fb2k as I did with the other collections?
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General - (fb2k) / Re: Custom tags in left panel
Last post by anamorphic -
Hi there,

What is "the left panel"? In default installs I suppose that would be Album List? (a tree structure of your music library)

Assuming this is correct, note which view you are using under the tree, like "View: by album".

In File > Preferences > Media Library > Album List, you can see the list of views. Here you can edit the patterns for the view you are using, to add custom tags to the tree. Each tree level is separated by | character.

So say you have a SOURCE tag in your files, you can simply add %source% to the pattern wherever you want it to show up. If you put it at the beginning of a view pattern, followed by | character, it would be at the top level, and thereby dividing the library into the different values of that tag.

Cheers
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General - (fb2k) / Re: Editing tags in foobar
Last post by musimath -
Quote from: Case on
The failing files are inside ZIP-archive. That fully explains all the failures you see. I'm quite certain these files have never been tagged with TagScanner either, it's just a special feature of foobar2000 that it can play and show these without manually extracting them first.
You should either remove the zip archives from your music collection or change your exclusion filter from "*.CUE" to "*.CUE;*.ZIP".

I changed the exclusion filter to "*.CUE;*.ZIP". Formerly I had only *.cue, without quotation marks and lower-case letters.
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General - (fb2k) / Re: Editing tags in foobar
Last post by musimath -
Quote from: Case on

The foobar2000 version you said you use, v1.6.16, has one configuration option regarding FLAC tag compatibility. Toggling it and forcing file info re-reads doesn't change what kind of metadata the player sees in the file.


Please be more specific about this configuration option.
I enclose more screenshots in my last post.
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General - (fb2k) / Re: Editing tags in foobar
Last post by da yuyu -
Quote from: musimath on
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As for your second sentence: do you propose to add every subfolder separately to the ML? They are more than 2200!
...

Sorry, just talking about my own experience...
My primary collection management tool is not fb2k but File Explorer. I find it hard to deal with more than 500 subfolders per level (just my Bach and Beethoven folders contain 1500 within 4 or 5 sub-levels/folders).
Maybe you could also consider adding some subfolder structure to avoid that 'all or nothing' situation.

This is also a big subject by itself and a bit off-topic now... hope you can solve the current issue thanks to @Case latest post!
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General - (fb2k) / Re: foobar2000 for mac
Last post by scannt -
Thanks for the reply, Peter.
This confirms my findings after spending a couple of hours setting up Xcode and checking out the foo_audioscrobbler repo. Unfortunately my C knowledge is very limited (I'm used to Kotlin/Java).

Here's hoping someone with the knowledge notices this and creates mac port.
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FLAC / Re: FLAC v1.4.x Performance Tests
Last post by Porcus -
One thing is that "-8" differs, because it is now synonymous to something else with different apodization functions.
But -5 also. bennetng's file recompressed:
322377 bytes with 1.3.4 win64 at -5 (379745 (bigger!) by adding --lax -l32)
381923 bytes with 1.4.2 win64 at -5 (382278 (bigger!) by adding --lax -l32)

Adding -p, similar happens:
222297 bytes with 1.3.4 win64 at -5p
268901 bytes with 1.4.2 win64 at -5p
 
-e instead of -p reverses the order, now 1.4 makes smaller:
276571 bytes with 1.3.4 win64 at -5e
269589 bytes with 1.4.2 win64 at -5e

-pe then, 1.3.4 is back winning, but not at -l32:
184466 bytes with 1.3.4 win64 at -5pe (down to 183542 by adding --lax -l32)
188771 bytes with 1.4.2 win64 at -5pe (down to 180144 by adding --lax -l32)

Edit: Could get it down as far as this:
161713 bytes with 1.4.2 win64 at -pe --lax -l32 -A<tonsofthem>. -r4 or -r15 didn't matter, -r3 inflated it one byte
139241 by adding -b 32768 -r15
136487 by adding -b 65535 , confirming that once the predictor is good enough, ... or am I interpreting it wrong?


Since -e makes the difference, is there something about the model guesstimation algorithm?
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General - (fb2k) / Re: Editing tags in foobar
Last post by Case -
The failing files are inside ZIP-archive. That fully explains all the failures you see. I'm quite certain these files have never been tagged with TagScanner either, it's just a special feature of foobar2000 that it can play and show these without manually extracting them first.
You should either remove the zip archives from your music collection or change your exclusion filter from "*.CUE" to "*.CUE;*.ZIP".
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General - (fb2k) / Re: Editing tags in foobar
Last post by musimath -
Quote from: da yuyu on
That looks like a great idea!

- Screenshot of properties dialog's Details tab.
- Screenshot of error selecting a single track from the library view.

If you can not find them in the library view:
Double-click on the error message. It should open a new window (you could also post an screenshot of that window).
Optionally, copy the path to the offending files and move them outside the ML (e.g. to a new folder H:\LR_Classical.repair) until you find a solution to fix them.

Which is the great idea?

I enclose the messages I got double clicking the error below Tools, after trying to modify the Artsit Name in Properties/Metadata.
The third one corresponds to what I got trying to modify the Album Artist tag in the third track of Berman's album. The track I attached to a former post.