davePremium,MVM
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kudos:8 | reply to sbconslt
Re: [WIN7] Getting text listing of albums/artists from media pla Thanks for the suggestion, but it doesn't appear to be capable of doing what I want.
My basic issue is to reconcile a bunch of directory files (/artist/album) with the content of some Media Player database (something.wmdb). My approach is to get listings, in appropriate text form, of the two, and then write a reconciliation script.
I already have appropriate listings of the files. What I need is a listing of the .wmdb content. mp3tag appears to work only on a list of files (you give it a directory to look in) and not on a Media Player database.
Still, thanks for bothering, I appreciate it anyway.
This program might be the sort of thing I want, but it's part of a for-pay tool suite, and I don't yet think my one-time need for one tool warrants spending $100. |
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| It can't reconstitute the data you need from the ID3 tags in the files themselves? |
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davePremium,MVM
join:2000-05-04
not in ohio
kudos:8 | said by sbconslt:It can't reconstitute the data you need from the ID3 tags in the files themselves?
Maybe it can, but the point is I need to compare files versus the WMP view of the world, and your suggestion would have me comparing files against what I would have to guess would be the WMP way of processing ID3 tags.
i.e., I don't know what WMPs decision algorithm is when it wants to figure out "is this a distinct album?".
I used to think it was based on the structure of the artist/album hierarchy, but I was wrong there. Then I thought it was based on the content of the desktop.ini files but I was wrong there. I don't have a good track record with guesses! |
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| When you figure it out it's going to be something so mundane, like a capitalization difference, you're going to want to punch a hole through the wall. |
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davePremium,MVM
join:2000-05-04
not in ohio
kudos:8 | Yeah, you're right.
I'm reconsidering: maybe I'll see if I can figure it out with the tags. It might be faster than my current progress.
Consulting this »msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library···220.aspx it seems like the things I'm after in the database come directly from ID3 tags.
There's Microsoft APIs I can use to query the library (I don't actually have to touch the raw wmdb file) but that involves C# and .NET, neither of which are in my current skill set, so I'm trying to avoid even thinking of that approach. |
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