From: svante t <svante_at_demonbox.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 22:30:24 +0200

This ID3Browse software sounds really cool to me and would do I job I
miss: aliases/shortcuts. Ive seen in the feature req list for Rockbox
and heres my five cents to speed that work up or move it upwards in
the priority list.
I have thousands of files and would love to browse them by genre,
year etc... With aliases I could easily sort out all artists by genre
and make aliases/shortcuts to their containing directories.

It would be even better if Rockbox itself could browse by ID3-tags...
but I guess that would need a whole new way of browsing, more like
playlists. I guess some kind of index software could do the hard work
on the computer and then copy them to the arhcos. Im just babbling
here obviously...

Anyone who knows about *NIX eqvivalents to ID3Browse, please tell me.
Someone can probably swing up those functions with some cool
perl-scripts...

/Svante



>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 2003-07-14