2009-05-09, 17:54
Hello!
I've been looking into ways to utilize the Smart Playlists feature (instead of building a handful of static playlists by hand, naturally) and it keeps coming back to one key point: Star ratings. I want the entire library on file in case I feel like listening to Album X by Artist Y, but when company's over I'd like to tell XBMC to simply pick a bunch of songs in Genre Z above, say, 3 stars (4 and 5 star songs, then).
I read the hell out of the FAQs and forums and learned that what I need to do is grab MediaMonkey and do some ratings, since that's a damned sight easier to work with than tagging within XBMC. (No fault of the program, since that's not really what it's built for, mind you!) Here's the catch:
MP3s tagged with ratings by MediaMonkey are read in by the library update just fine. Unfortunately, everything in my media library which I ripped myself is in Ogg Vorbis format... which MediaMonkey tags just fine, and XBMC reads everything else that MediaMonkey does to Ogg Vorbis files... but it doesn't read the ratings info.
MediaMonkey creates a "RATING" comment tag on what looks to be a 0-100 scale. One star is 20, two is 40, and so on. So, my request is that XBMC be taught (some day in the reasonable, but not too far off future) to recognize that tag much like it does with the similar ID3 tag for MP3 files.
Thank you for your time!
I've been looking into ways to utilize the Smart Playlists feature (instead of building a handful of static playlists by hand, naturally) and it keeps coming back to one key point: Star ratings. I want the entire library on file in case I feel like listening to Album X by Artist Y, but when company's over I'd like to tell XBMC to simply pick a bunch of songs in Genre Z above, say, 3 stars (4 and 5 star songs, then).
I read the hell out of the FAQs and forums and learned that what I need to do is grab MediaMonkey and do some ratings, since that's a damned sight easier to work with than tagging within XBMC. (No fault of the program, since that's not really what it's built for, mind you!) Here's the catch:
MP3s tagged with ratings by MediaMonkey are read in by the library update just fine. Unfortunately, everything in my media library which I ripped myself is in Ogg Vorbis format... which MediaMonkey tags just fine, and XBMC reads everything else that MediaMonkey does to Ogg Vorbis files... but it doesn't read the ratings info.
MediaMonkey creates a "RATING" comment tag on what looks to be a 0-100 scale. One star is 20, two is 40, and so on. So, my request is that XBMC be taught (some day in the reasonable, but not too far off future) to recognize that tag much like it does with the similar ID3 tag for MP3 files.
Thank you for your time!
