Re: Not auto-tagging M4A based on file name/path

jmasters@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

Sounds great, Joe!  I did have a couple ideas around this I'd like to 
suggest - some applications (like EAC) allow you to specify arbitrary 
naming schemes - prior to Ephpod, I had some redundancy built in, and 
named files as:

%a\%l\%a - %l - %n - %t.ext

The other thing is the ability to override ID3 tags - suppose for 
example I'm downloading some stuff off the net (no boos - I have a 
scratched up Smashing Pumpkins CD that won't extract a few songs), and 
it comes with some tags already in there (maybe artist and title) - I've 
renamed the file to conform to a %a/%l/%n-%t.ext scheme with the rest of 
the songs I was, but when I import, it still takes the incomplete ID3 
tag.  Perhaps some way to specify order of precedence (pull info from 
file name first, then any unspecified field can be read (either from 
ID3v1 or v2 tags) - maybe that would be buried under "advanced features".

On a completely unrelated note, is there any way to take advantage of 
the star rating system for songs to build playlists?

--Ben

> I am currently (as in right now) working on the feature that reads 
> information from filename/path based on how you set it up (i.e. 
> %a/%l/%n-%t.ext
> 
> --joe
> 
> On Sat, 12 Jul 2003, richard wrote:
> 
> 
>>I wrote a few messages on this subject within the past week.  No one 
>>reported any success with auto-tagging m4a's.  You could try 
>>www.dbpoweramp.com or wait for a new version of ephpod or use iTunes tagged 
>>files.
>>
>>At 11:20 PM 7/11/2003 -0500, Ben Johnson wrote:
>>
>>
>>>I've been playing around with trying to get some AAC/MP4 (m4a) files
>>>onto my iPod.  For MP3s, the "guess tags based on path" option seems to
>>>work well.  Nothing doing for an M4A file - it's just setting the title
>>>to be the file name, and leaving Album/Artist as "Unknown".
>>>
>>>Any thoughts?


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