wnshall;381366 Wrote: 
> OK, I think I see the problem. Since JRMC puts all its user created tags
> into comments and not individually named tags, they all appear in Custom
> Scan in the COMMENT tag.  Since I have lots of other stuff in Comment
> fields, this precludes using JRMC to create multi-valued "tags".  For
> example, I am trying to create a "Form" tag for use with classical
> music, with items like "symphony", "string quartet", etc.  Am I correct
> that I could use Custom Scan/Custom Browse to *filter* on a keyword in
> the comment field (eg. put "Symphony" in the comment field and create a
> menu that only contains songs/artists/albums tagged with Symphony), but
> I can't create a menu having several options below it, eg "symphony",
> "string quartet"?  (I can do the later with the CONTENTGROUP tag
> because Custom Scan simply creates a menu with options corresponding to
> all the values it finds in the CONTENTGROUP tag -- can't do this with
> the COMMENT field if it's full of other stuff.)
> 
Sub parameters in comment tags will be hard to use. There are some menu
template where it is possible to define that the COMMENT tag needs to
contains a sub string, for example the Filtered Singles menu. It's also
possible to create a virtual library with Multi Library plugin that only
contains songs which have a specific sub string in the COMMENT tag.
However, I think you will have a hard time to get it to work as you
like with the current solution.

If you really want to use COMMENT tag with sub parameters, I think the
correct solution is to extend Custom Scan so parses COMMENT for sub
parameters and put them as separate fields in the database in same way
as it does with Txxxx tags.

wnshall;381366 Wrote: 
> 
> The recently released JRMC13 puts user created fields in Txxx fields
> rather than COMMENT fields.  Would those "tags" be read individually by
> SC/Custom Scan, rather than what appears to be happening with the
> COMMENT "tags"?
Yes, Txxxx tags should work perfectly.

Let me know if you really like to use COMMENT tag and don't like the
Txxxx tags and I could take a look at Custom Scan and see if it would
be possible to make it handle sub parameters in COMMENT field in same
way as Txxxx tags. However, I would prefer not to do it since it's not
standardized and most people probably are going to use Txxxx tags for
the same thing.


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