2011-08-19, 23:15
I did some searching around the forums for an answer, but nothing I found seemed to do the trick, so thought I'd ask here.
I got a problem with wma files with multiple genres and how they display in XBMC when sorted by Genre.
Here's a screen shot that makes it easy to see my issue
Now I just finished organizing the music library using MusicBrainz Picard with the Last.FM plugin. All the single genres you see there like "Rock", "Classic Rock", etc are mp3 files. The ones that show "Jazz; Swing; Big Band; Easy Listening; Jazz Vocal" are the wma files.
Far as I can tell in all the music programs I have, even windows Explorer Details properties tab, show the same format for genres in the Genre tag. Each genre that applies to the track separated by a semi-colon for both types of files.
I tried putting this into the advancedsettings.xml file just to see if it'd help, but no dice.
Is there just something simple I'm missing? Currently pondering if I should just convert the wma files into mp3, but that will take ages and many tears and I'd really prefer not to have to.
Thanks in advance for any insight into this.
On a separate note, that Last.FM plugin did some nifty things with the Grouping tag as a level of organizing the music easier. I know XBMC doesn't by default use this hierarchy to display songs, but can the Grouping tag be used in Smart Playlists or some nifty plugin? With so many genres it's quite a challenge to go through the entire list looking for what you want.
Almost ready to just replace the multiple genres with Last.FM's groups and call it a day heh.
Thanks again
Edit: Forgot to mention, running the pre-Eden nightlies. Currently on Aug's 18th build.
I got a problem with wma files with multiple genres and how they display in XBMC when sorted by Genre.
Here's a screen shot that makes it easy to see my issue
Now I just finished organizing the music library using MusicBrainz Picard with the Last.FM plugin. All the single genres you see there like "Rock", "Classic Rock", etc are mp3 files. The ones that show "Jazz; Swing; Big Band; Easy Listening; Jazz Vocal" are the wma files.
Far as I can tell in all the music programs I have, even windows Explorer Details properties tab, show the same format for genres in the Genre tag. Each genre that applies to the track separated by a semi-colon for both types of files.
I tried putting this into the advancedsettings.xml file just to see if it'd help, but no dice.
Code:
<musiclibrary>
<itemseparator> ; </itemseparator>
</musiclibrary>
Is there just something simple I'm missing? Currently pondering if I should just convert the wma files into mp3, but that will take ages and many tears and I'd really prefer not to have to.
Thanks in advance for any insight into this.
On a separate note, that Last.FM plugin did some nifty things with the Grouping tag as a level of organizing the music easier. I know XBMC doesn't by default use this hierarchy to display songs, but can the Grouping tag be used in Smart Playlists or some nifty plugin? With so many genres it's quite a challenge to go through the entire list looking for what you want.
Almost ready to just replace the multiple genres with Last.FM's groups and call it a day heh.
Thanks again
Edit: Forgot to mention, running the pre-Eden nightlies. Currently on Aug's 18th build.