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Offline yelped

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Arranger and Composer Tags
« on: August 26, 2009, 06:06:03 PM »
Under Track Info or Properties can someone add Arranger and Composer Tags (or whatever tags are available), please? And if there are not filled in, it just disappears,  that way you don't just see an empty box. The only way to see who composed a song right now is to go to Database>Composers>"Name of Composer", which is very time-consuming.

I would appreciate it.

Thanks.

Edit: Actually, you can use the context menu, and use "open with...", and select "Viewer", and at the beginning of the file you'll see the tags, however getting this done is obviously preferred.
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Offline yelped

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Re: Arranger and Composer Tags
« Reply #1 on: August 29, 2009, 11:47:37 PM »
Bump?
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Offline yapper

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Re: Arranger and Composer Tags
« Reply #2 on: August 30, 2009, 01:08:38 AM »
Please do not 'bump'. You should read the sticky for the Feature Ideas thread, particularly "there is no guarantee they will be acted upon".
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Offline yelped

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Re: Arranger and Composer Tags
« Reply #3 on: August 30, 2009, 02:30:12 PM »
Sorry, I just wanted to get a response like "no" or "yes".
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Offline saratoga

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Re: Arranger and Composer Tags
« Reply #4 on: August 30, 2009, 02:37:15 PM »
The only way you can get a yes answer is if someone is already working on it.  The only way to get a no answer is if your idea if impossible or not allowed for some reason.  Both of these are unlikely, so you're getting the third option "maybe if someone ever decides to add it".
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Offline yelped

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Re: Arranger and Composer Tags
« Reply #5 on: August 30, 2009, 09:23:25 PM »
OK. Sorry again. :D
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Re: Arranger and Composer Tags
« Reply #6 on: August 31, 2009, 07:41:12 AM »
I can't imagine that there would be any opposition to this, it just needs someone to do the work, as saratoga says.
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Offline yelped

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Re: Arranger and Composer Tags
« Reply #7 on: September 01, 2009, 05:17:50 PM »
Are you willing to do the work? ;)
Thanks a lot.
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Re: Arranger and Composer Tags
« Reply #8 on: September 01, 2009, 05:43:01 PM »
No, are you?  That is the only sure way to make something happen.
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Offline bakseetdrivr

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Re: Arranger and Composer Tags
« Reply #9 on: September 01, 2009, 09:18:24 PM »
AlexP=awesome :P
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Offline yelped

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Re: Arranger and Composer Tags
« Reply #10 on: September 01, 2009, 10:22:32 PM »
OK, OK, I get the hint. :) However, one little snag, I can't code. :( So, I'll wait for somebody who can code and wants this feature. :D
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Offline yelped

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Re: Arranger and Composer Tags
« Reply #11 on: May 23, 2010, 04:27:01 PM »
Just an update: This feature is now infinitely more useful with the hotkey now settable in the WPS Screen for "Track Info".
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Offline csavery

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Re: Arranger and Composer Tags
« Reply #12 on: May 24, 2010, 12:33:16 PM »
I've just added patch FS#11313 to provide composer on the track info screen.

It shows at the bottom but if you scroll up it's visible easily. I would have added it after "Artist" but that involved changing all the other tags so I just kept it simple.

Composer is a standard ID3 tag and present in the lower level ID3 code in Rockbox. Arranger is not currently there and I'm not sure what ID3 tag it would match up with. I checked on Wikipedia and arranger wasn't listed as a standard tag. So I could make a patch for it but it would be more complex since it needs lower level code and I'd need to know what ID3 tag it should connect to.
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Offline yelped

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Re: Arranger and Composer Tags
« Reply #13 on: May 24, 2010, 12:49:22 PM »
Thanks a lot! The most useful is the composer tag anyways. Great work!  Update: thanks to jd gordon for accepting the patch in r26409, and even more thanks to Chris Savery for making the patch and modifying it to be accepted and working optimally.
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