![]() ![]() I had considered the option of a separate tag database, and indeed I'm used to this concept since I catalog / tag / rate my collection of photos with an application that uses a separate database (though you can write the metadata to the files if you choose, too, assuming the files support this). In other words, a tag that might even be recognised by an OS like Vista as a rating (e.g. What I am curious to know, however, is what the "standard" tag is for rating a music file. I'm a paranoid geek at heart, and I like doing geeky stuff like writing custom rating tags direct to my music files so that I can port them wherever my music files go. Why I didn't just stick with foobar2000 as my main music organiser/player I don't know. Now I got my fingers badly burned, I think, when I did something simple like move my Music folder to another drive, and I think I lost all my ratings as a result. to play some old mpc files I used to keep), but for some bizarre reason chose to spend some time doing all my ratings in WMP, and jumping through hoops to get m4a files even to play. Quote from: sitalchauhan on 22:56:21 And yes I just tested the rating system with an m4a file and it works perfectly saving the rating in the tags of each file, so that the rating always stays with the file whereever you take itĮxcellent! I've had foobar2000 installed on my system for many years, and used it on and off for particular reasons (e.g. Im not sure my explanation is fully clear so a picture should help: If you set the hotkey for the script under the '' menu, then it will rate the song playing even if you have a different song highlighted. Regarding the Global Hotkeys, when you are setting the hotkey in the Preferences, if you set the hotkey for the script under the '' menu, then it will rate whichever song you have currently got highlighted even if it isnt playing. Nice to see people are finding my guide useful ![]() Presumably foobar2000 can write the custom rating information to such files, so that the rating travels with the file, rather than requiring a separate database? I'd like to be able to quickly rate a track without having to play it first.įinally, I am mainly playing M4A files. Is it not possible to have the hotkey operate when the track is NOT playing? There doesn't seem to be any good reason I can think of to restrict the context to tracks actually being played. It seems that when I create these shortcuts, it automatically restricts the context to "currently playing" (and your post also suggests this is the case). ![]() I love the idea of being able to define custom ratings, different for each user.Īnd a quick question on the Global Hotkey keyboard shortcuts for each script. Quote from: drmrbrewer on 22:34:29 I wanted to add my thanks for this helpful information. I particularly like your system because I often browse my directories and import files or songs into the playlist, so having a playlist that writes to the file is really great. And it was only searching this forum and finding your method which allowed me to set up any rating system. Could I find out why after a zillion Google searches, no I could not. The on board rating system was greyed out, but I had all the plug-ins installed. I have to say that as a relatively new user foobar 2000 is probably the greatest media player with the worst documentation and help files. and also there is a slight error in the code for if you don't want any hollows circles in the ratings: but it's something that a quick experiment solved. I think it is an excellent system, I did get a little lost in the instructions about managing scripts. Hi Sital, just wanted to give my sincere thanks for these instructions. ![]()
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