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I've just did a test and it works. Note that custom fields will always begin with an uppercase letter, to avoid clashes with possible future standard fields. And it is case sensitive, so you need to use exactly the word that appear in the column in the Fields tab.

still no luck
custom fields tags "written"* by GMB are read. others are ignored.

In the SongInfo widget, by default it will only show the field if the current song has a value for it. You can also look at the info tab of a song properties dialog, there the field should appear even if empty.

- will markup support IF sentences with boolean operators?

yes

good! dumb question: is this already implemented? if so, what's the syntax? thanks

- would you provide an example of how to customize font and color with markup?

The pango markup doc is there : https://developer.gnome.org/pango/unstable/PangoMarkupFormat.html
Example with a Test custom field : Text1(markup='<span foreground="blue" font="Arial 15">$Test</span>')
You have to pay attention to quotes, use one kind (single or double quotes) for the markup='...' and another for the span properties.

thank you

- is, or will ever be,  possible to use markup on a SongList column?

I don't know

???


PS
* why isn't writing to TAG allowed? =/

The standard field Rating, and only this one, if its option to read/write tags from file is enabled, can read from a "rating" tag, assuming a rating from 0 to 5.WARNING when writing a rating it will use the fmps standard and DELETE the "rating" tag.

yes, reading the "RATING" tag (1 to 5 integer) works for flac tags, if GMB writes that tag (with the advanced tag editor).
it doesn't work for pre-existing tags, or id3v tags. didn't check vorbis tags.

Sorry I chose I bad example..

For most custom fields there is no link currently with any tag.

anyway, this is what I wanted to verify.
are you going to support this? please let me know


BTW, I don't want a type "rating" field. I want to use my own rating tags, which can be easily read by any other program as "RATING" and not "FMPS_Rating".

the actual problem:

I don't get it.. you say in the documentation that a $word can represent any field tag, even custom fields.
But I cant get it to work: custom fields do not show.
Not with the text widget, not in the SongInfo widget.


other questions:
- will markup support IF sentences with boolean operators?
- would you provide an example of how to customize font and color with markup?
- is, or will ever be,  possible to use markup on a SongList column?

I noticed that the "run system command" shortcut already can export information about the currently playing song, using both syntax $title and %title. that's great!!
I'm writing a little shellscript for tagging files with custom tags, making use of lltag, so that I can tag the rating and other stuff however I please =)
I'll post it here when it's ready, if you don't mind Quentin

the next step in my agenda is to find a way to display those tags.. is it the sort of thing that a plugin can solve, while you make your decision wheter support them or not?

sure, go to Settings->Misc.
check "remember last filter/playlist between sessions"
check "remember playing song between sessions"

Another reason is I need to study what other programs that support custom tags are doing, not only what tags they are using, but also what format the values are written in. So that there is a reasonable level of compatibility, and to see what users expect.

not sure if this is of any help, but I noticed both kid3 and easytag pull id3lib as a dependency.
http://id3lib.sourceforge.net/

Then I really hope you'll decide to entrust us with that ability! The sooner the better :)

It's just a feature I got in the habit to use with other players. I agree with you there's no need for an inline editing of the rating, as there are so many options already, but it can be useful for some quick corrections to the other tag fields.
Anyway, i can live without it

This dialog is mostly independent of the rest of gmb, and doesn't prevent gmb from doing anything.

good to know! thanks for replying man!

Saving custom fields to tags is planned, but again not sure when. Though it's not hard, I'm mostly a bit afraid of giving users a way to mess up their tags.

great!!  :D
sorry for opening the other thread, I missed this bit  :)
I'm OT here, but I don't think you should worry about letting us mess with the tags.. we're not itunes users =) I think your userbase is savvy enough to handle even that overwhelming power :P

I'll try and elaborate..

If you look at the song properties of a flac file you'll see the vorbis tags. There's the list of your tags, standard and custom, each one with its own corresponding value, which you can edit as you please. PERFECT!


Then you have the ID3V2 tags. I think this are handled very bad, but it's just my opinion.
The standard tags (artist album etc) are listed as you would expect, but the custom tags are not!!
All the tags added by other programs (foobar, mp3tag, quodlibet, whatever) are shown as "Custom text".
Each "custom text" tag has a description (which is really the tag itself) and the value. why?
why just not read the tag as every other program does?
If that's for compliance with the fpms standard.. well then my suggestion is to ditch the standard and let the users handle their tags how they like  :)


So there's the inconsistency in the properties dialog.
Is that a problem?
Well it is in the measure it prevents this amazing music player to develop further!
As I suggested in this other thread, I'd really like to have a better support for custom tags, but that's not just for personal taste of preferring the hardcoded tags over the library tags: a proper support of custom tags would allow for later implementation of some sort of titleformatting, foobar style, which is what I really hope to see soon in GMB.
bear with me, I don't want GMB to be a Foobar clone. GMB is great, and already better than the default foobar in many ways! but if it could also pack titleformatting, then I think it would be the best audio player and organizer ever!  ;D

I'd love to have a fully customizable playlist viewer (a la foobar w/ columns_ui).

foobar titleformatting has proven to be a great tool for customization of how tag information is represented.
for example I would show my rating as 6 unicode stars, with color ranging from dark to light yellow, and a unicode spade for songs I wanted to skip (rated -1). nobody but me uses a 8 steps rating system, but thanks to titleformatting I could do as I please. And in foobar titleformatting not only applies to the title and the playlist, but to anything else as well. I think that giving that kind of power and control to the user is amazing.

I really whish GMB will one day offer similar features. I'd love to help developing them.

it would be great if you could edit the file tags in the playlist view, without opening the "song properties" dialog