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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: Flash Games question...Re: Flash Games question...
From: Brian Wolven <brian.wolven_at_verizon.net>
Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2003 15:31:48 -0400 F. Andres wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Brian Wolven" <brian.wolven_at_verizon.net> > To: <rockbox_at_cool.haxx.se> > Sent: Saturday, July 12, 2003 4:01 AM > Subject: Re: Flash Games question... > > >> F. Andres wrote: >>> >>> Yes, in my root dir are about 600 to 800 files, I haven't got it >>> here at the moment, but I think it must be around this number. As >>> soon as I have the possibility, I will move the files to another >>> dir and leave just 10 or 20 mp3s in the root, I'll post it here if >>> the problem is gone or not. >> >> Why do you need to have *any* mp3s in the root dir? I have only 1 >> file (ajbrec.ajz, and that can go away once I've flashed my >> recorder), and four folders - Music Files, Playlists, ID3 (permits >> ipod-like browsing by ID3 tag data), and of course, .rockbox. I keep >> it clean the same way I do my house - nothing much visible on the >> surface, but be very careful when you open the closets or the >> drawers. =) > > Hi Brian! > How do you do this with 'browsing the ID tags'? Is this a plugin or is > it already in firmware? I use the one that came with the 'flash plug > in' Please tell me how to do it or how it works, it sounds very > interesting! There is a windows application called ID3Browse that creates a file structure of folders and playlists that duplicate selected aspects of your ID3 tags; you run the program, point it at your music files/folders, and get the resulting info out, either on your jukebox, or on your PC and then copy it to your jukebox (if you mirror your music files on the two). I'll just paste in the readme that came with the application; you can see if it looks useful to you (URL is in the readme). HTH ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- ID3Browse - ID3 Playlist Generator v1.0 Copyright 2002 - Shane Brinkman-Davis ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Webpage: shanebrinkmandavis.com/homepage/JBMM Contact: shanbdavis_at_yahoo.com This software is FREEWARE. You can use it and copy it as much as you want. I warranty NOTHING. Of something goes wrong because you used this software, its not my fault. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK. That said, I don't think this soft will cause any deleterious effects. Requirements ------------ This software requires Windows 95 or better. I have tested it on Win98 and Win2000, and it should work on 95, ME, XP, NT, etc... The program needs about 25megs to run. That means your computer needs at least 64 megs to be able to run this program reasonably. Goal ---- The goal of this software is to generate playlists organized in directories from any information found in ID3 tags. The core use of this is to emulate ID3 based browsing for File-System based MP3 players such as Archos' Jukebox line. After using coding this up, I have realized that this program allows you to have much more control over ID3-based browsing that you get on MP3 players with hard-coded ID3 based browsing. First Time Use -------------- To generate some standard ID3-based browsing directories and playlists, follow this simple quick-start guide below. This sill make an ID3 directory on the root of your MP3 player's hard drive with many directories and playlists inside it. It will not delete, move, copy or modify your MP3s. Quick Start: 1) Copy all your MP3s to your player 2) Copy ID3Browse.exe and the .bat files to your MP3 player 3) Double click on the "Generate Standard ID3 Based Browsing.bat" file ON YOUR MP3 player 4) Wait a few minutes while the ID3 directories and playlists are created 5) When it is done you will see the message: "ID3Browse - done!" and some statistics. 6) Press a key to close the window - that's it! The batch file in step 3 above creates 4 standard ways to browse your MP3s: By Artist By Album By Genre By Year Disconnect your MP3 player and browse the ID3 directory - you should find it very much like browsing your whole collection my ID3 tags! Whenever you add MP3s, just re-run this program. If you delete MP3s, delete the ID3 directory and re-run this program. Want more? With ID3Browse you can setup just about any way to browse your MP3s based on ID3 tags. Read on if you want to learn how. Basic Command Line Options -------------------------- ID3Browse is a command-line utility. If you are not familiar with the DOS command line, you may prefer to make copies of the example .BAT file and editing it to change the options. ID3Browse command line options look like this: ID3Browse ScanDir FormatString(s) Basically, this program scans ScanDir and all its subdirs for all MP3s. Then, it creates directory trees with M3U playlists from the MP3's ID3 tags based on the format strings. When you run ID3Browse, you must provide a ScanDir and at least one FormatString. The power of this program comes from its FormatStrings Format Strings -------------- A format string describes how you want to browse your MP3s. Format strings consist of a directory name and a sequence of keywords joined by pluses ('+'s): RootDirectory=Keyword[+Keyword][+Keyword] A keyword refers to an ID3 field - or data calculated from an ID3 field. Valid keywords are: ARTIST, ALBUM, SONG, GENRE, YEAR, DECADE, and COMMENT Any 4 character ID3v2 text tag ID: T??? (see below for some known text tag ids) Some example Format Strings: \ID3\JustArtist=Artist \ID3\JustGenre=Genre \ID3\Artist=Artist+Album \ID3\Genre=Genere+Album \ID3\Year=Decade+Year \ID3\ArtistAndYear=Artist+Decade+Year+Album ID3Browse takes all your mp3s in ScanDir and, for each format string, sorts them by the keywords you specified. It sorts by the first keyword first and then subsorts on the second, etc... For each keyword up to the last one, it creates directories and sub directories. For the last keyword, it creates a playlist file (.m3u) for each unique value. For example, the keyword sequence "Artist+Album" directs ID3Browse to sort all MP3s by Artist and subsort by Album. It then creates a directory for each Artist and, in each artist's directory, it creates a playlist for each album. The format string "\ID3\JustArtist=Artist" makes a playlist of all songs for each artist and puts it in the directory \ID3\JustArtist. There is one more thing you can do with your keywords. You can limit the number of characters used from the keyword. Any keyword can have a colon (:) added immediately after it and then a number that specifies how many characters to use. This can be very handy if you have too many, say, artists to list in one directory. Example Format String: \ID3\Artist=Artist:1+Artist+Album This string tells ID3Browse to sort all MP3s by the first letter of each artist. Then, inside those directories, sort by the fill artist name. Inside each artist's directory, it makes a playlist for each of that artist's albums. Here is how \ID3\Artist might look after you run this format string: \ID3\Artist\A\Anelli Dreker\Tunra.m3u \ID3\Artist\A\Art of Noise\In no sense? Nonsense.m3u \ID3\Artist\A\Art of Noise\The Seduction of Claude Debussy.m3u \ID3\Artist\D\Depeche Mode\Exciter.m3u \ID3\Artist\D\Depeche Mode\Violator.m3u ... So, to be very formal, the format of a FormatString is: RootDirectory=Keyword[:Num][+Keyword[:Num]]* Where: RootDirectory can be any valid path Keyword is any valid keyword - see above ':' and '+' appear literally [...] parts are optional - when used don't type the '[]'s, only what is inside them. [...]* parts can be repeated 0 or more times 'Num's are positive decimal integers Some ID3v2 Text TagIDs ---------------------- TALB Album/Movie/Show title TBPM BPM (beats per minute) TCOM Composer TCON Content type TCOP Copyright message TDAT Date TDLY Playlist delay TENC Encoded by TEXT Lyricist/Text writer TFLT File type TIME Time TIT1 Content group description TIT2 Title/songname/content description TIT3 Subtitle/Description refinement TKEY Initial key TLAN Language(s) TLEN Length TMED Media type TOAL Original album/movie/show title TOFN Original filename TOLY Original lyricist(s)/text writer(s) TOPE Original artist(s)/performer(s) TORY Original release year TOWN File owner/licensee TPE1 Lead performer(s)/Soloist(s) TPE2 Band/orchestra/accompaniment TPE3 Conductor/performer refinement TPE4 Interpreted, remixed, or otherwise modified by TPOS Part of a set TPUB Publisher TRCK Track number/Position in set TRDA Recording dates TRSN Internet radio station name TRSO Internet radio station owner TSIZ Size TSRC ISRC (international standard recording code) TSSE Software/Hardware and settings used for encoding TYER Year Limitations ----------- Currently, ID3Browse supports ID3 v1, v1.1, v2.3 and v2.4 tags. That means ID3 v2.2 tags are not supported. If there is demand, I'll put them in, too.Received on 2003-07-12 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |