There has been some request on how I do "Master Playlists" to easily
select years, genres, languages, BPMs, and missing tags like cover,
ReplayGain data and so forth.
So if you use Windows and Mp3tag, Im happy to give you what I
currently have its a -long- and two-step process, and currently only
works for Windows and when using ISO-8859-1 filenames only (might need
to modify it for Unicode filenames one day). Feel free to experiment
with it, change it, amke it work for Linux, or whatever but please
let us know by appending to this thread!
1. I open my complete library in Mp3tag (which will take a long time),
2. I mark all files in Mp3tag, then run an "Export" that writes stuff
to a DOS Batch File (which will take several hours on my machine with
26,500 files).
3. I then run another batch file that converts what I get from Mp3tag
into yet another batch file and executes that. This will generate a lot
of M3U "playlist" files, like for years, genres, BPMs, and so forth and
store the results in a -M:\Music\Playlists\Master- folder. This will
also include some "error" playlists, beginning with "_!_", like
"_!_No-Cover.m3u", "_!_No-RG-Track.m3u", and so on which I later use to
correct (or sort out) the buggy files.
Heres the list of what it currently generates:
- *_!_Duplicate-Tags.m3u* -I use this to find duplicate Artist,
Album, Title tags.-
- *_!_No-Cover.m3u* -List of files that have no embedded cover
art-
- *_!_No-OrigYear.m3u* -List of files that have no ORIGYEAR
specified- (I use YEAR for release year, ORIGYEAR for date of first
release of this track.)
- *_!_No-RG-Album.m3u[/i] -List of files with missing Album
ReplayGain-
- [b]_!_No-RG-Track.m3u[/i] -List of files with missing Track
ReplayGain-
- [b]_All_.m3u* -Complete list of all audio files-
- *_BPM_
.m3u* -BPM groups in 10s, like _BPM_110.m3u,
_BPM_120.m3u,
-
- *_Decade_
.m3u* -Decades (ORIGYEAR preferred, YEAR used if not
specified), like _Decade_1990.m3u, _Decade_2000.m3u,
-
- *_Genre_
.m3u* -Genres, like _Genre_[unknown].m3u, _Genre_Alt.
Rock.m3u,
-
- *_Language_
.m3u* -Languages (the songs are sung in) in ISO 639-2
coding, like _Language_eng.m3u, _Language_eng_fre.m3u,
-
- *_Sampled_
.m3u* -Sampling/Channels, like _Sampled_44100 Hz Joint
Stereo.m3u, _Sampled_44100 Hz Stereo.m3u,
-
- *_Type_
.m3u* -File types, like _Type_Free Lossless Audio
Codec.m3u, _Type_MPEG 1 Layer III.m3u,
-
It will work for FLAC, MP3, OGG, and probably even WMA and M4A/AAC
files (last two not tested).
I run this on Windows/XP+SP3, the temporary batch files are currently
written to -C:\Program Files\Mp3tag- you will want to change this if
using Vista!
Also, I use a scheme to process all "funny batch file exports" I do
using Mp3tag with one and the same "Process.bat" which does some
character set conversions. This "Process.bat" I invoke via a button on
my Quick Launch bar, after the Mp3tag Export has finished. You -have-
to wait until batch file processing is finished before doing another
Mp3tag Export for batch file processing!
I will attach the Mp3tag "export" file and the "Process.bat" here for
anyones use but please be sure to check the code first and modify as
per your needs. Mainly, the locations for output and for storing the
generated playlist files in the -"Batch file - Playlist (.m3u) Master
(BPM,Decade,Genre,Language,etc.).mte"- file needs to be changed:
Line 1:
Code:
--------------------
$filename(C:\Program Files\Mp3tag\Process-Data.txt,ansi)@ECHO OFF
--------------------
Line 12:
Code:
--------------------
'SET fp=M:\Music\Playlists\Master\'
--------------------
Be sure not to use an apostrophe (') in this folder path and to end the
folder name with a backslash (\)!
Heres a Mini-How-To:
- Grab yourself a new version of 'Mp3tag' (http://mp3tag.de/en/),
install it and set it up as per your needs.
- Download the attached ZIP file and extract the files.
- Copy "Process.bat" into your -Mp3tag- installation folder, normally
-"C:\Program Files\Mp3tag\Process.bat"-
- Create a shortcut to this in your Quick Launch bar, for ease of
use. Name it appropriately so the little pop-up help will later show
you what this is. I called it "Process.bat Process MP3Tag-generated
Batch Export".
- Modify the file "Batch file - Playlist (.m3u) Master
(BPM,Decade,Genre,Language,etc.).mte" to point to the correct
locations as per instructions above.
- Copy the file "Batch file - Playlist (.m3u) Master
(BPM,Decade,Genre,Language,etc.).mte" into Mp3tags "export" folder.
This usually resides under -%APPDATA%- and is a hidden directory, so
you might want to enable display of hidden and system directories in
Windows Explorer, or use -START -> Run
-> type "%APPDATA%" into the
"Open:" field-. On Windows XP systems, this folder is usually called
-"C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application
Data\Mp3tag\export\"-. You will find other ".mte" files in there.
- Start up Mp3tag and check if your new Export appears under
"Tools/Options
/Export". In this window, also set up the following:
- [_] -Append data-
- [_] -One file per directory-
- [x] -Show selection dialog-
- [x] -Dont create directories-
- [x] -Write BOM-
Click -OK-.
- Do a -test run- before wasting so many hours on your whole
collection!
- Maybe just load one album into Mp3tag, mark all files using
CTRL+A, right-click them, select "Export
" from the context menu,
then "Batch file - Playlist (.m3u) Master
(BPM,Decade,Genre,Language,etc.)".
Be sure that you have the following unmarked in this window:
- [_] -Append data-
- [_] -One file per directory-
Also be sure that the filename shown is something like -"C:\Program
Files\Mp3tag\Process-Data.txt"-.
- Click -OK-.
- When all files have been exported, click on the new -"Process.bat
Process MP3Tag-generated Batch Export"- button on your Quick
Launch bar. A DOS window will pop up and show what it is
processing.
- After the window closes again, you can go to your new Master
Playlists folder (-"M:\Music\Playlists\Master\"- in our example)
and check out the newly generated .m3u playlists!
- All new playlists starting with the characters -"_!_"- indicate
some problems found (no RG values, no cover, etc.).
- Be aware that, upon executing, the tool will always first -delete-
all files matching the "_*_*.m3u" pattern in the Master Playlist
folder!
- If all is well, you can now load your entire collection into Mp3tag
and run the playlist generation overnight. Be aware that this will
take a -long time-.
Enjoy!
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