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Gracenote aim for monopoly. Years ago they ripped the community off CDDB when they bought and commercialized it. Still demanding to be exclusive to permit a license. I say boycott that scam business.

It now works in R7 beta 4 to index BPM for mp3's. Thanks!

That's a pity. While I understand that XP is old, it's still the best Windows version when you need a lightweight OS for an offline server. I run Asset on a somewhat older laptop and Vista/7/8/10 are...

You have 2 options:

Either use ALBUM SORT and tag e.g. "1969 - Abbey Road". Note the space between ALBUM and SORT. Also set the handling of sorting tags in the configuration.

Or try the new R7...

Beta 4 doesn't install in XP. No problems in Windows 10 except there's still the problem with indexing album type (or anything starting with album). The solution is the same as before, i.e. writing...

Hi GBrown! Were you using Mp3tag from scratch, not just to make the edit? Mp3tag writes TPE2 for AlbumArtist, and that as well as Album Artist works in R7.

I'm interested cause I have a somewhat...

Yes it is. Updating or adding tags is easy, you only need a tag editor. PerfectTUNES from dBpoweramp is a good choice, and you have some other taggers here:...

There is Additional > Browse by folders in Asset to browse on the disk.

In my library though, the singles are not in one place on the hard disk, but in subfolders of the artists.

So to easily...

I do as garym except that I tag ALBUM ARTIST on all my albums. There is no de facto standard here, and there are simplistic or just crap players out there which don't support much. But I think there...

So Asset prefers to strip the filenames. That leads me to ask:

In a big library, would Asset load/scan faster if the artist art files were prepared with stripped filenames to begin with?

Is there an approximate release date for Asset R7 linux, even a beta version?

I recommended Asset for a friend but unlike me, he is a linux user, and he needs 10+ tag values so he won't try the...

You can tag e.g. "ALBUM SORT=1969 - Abbey Road" and then select your preferred handling of sorting tags in the settings.

Then when you browse by ALBUM they will be sorted chronologically.

That is not correct, in Windows it's case-insensitive, with or without spaces. All of these works:

"Bob Dylan.png", "bob dylan.png", "BobDylan.png" and "bobdylan.png".

It's in the dBpoweramp settings (windows at least), in my case:

C:\Documents and Settings\vilsen\Application Data\dBpoweramp\uMediaLibrary\AssetUserUpstreamImages

Oh I see, no worries :)

Nothing, it's a great feature in foobar. I just suggested an alternative that would work in any player if so required.

Hello monsterjazzlick. Alternatively you could backup ARTIST SORT to BACKUP ARTIST SORT and then delete ARTIST SORT.

Great, thank you.

It turns out that you need to index TEMPO if you want Asset to read the TBPM field in mp3's... Indexing BPM does not work for mp3, but is needed for FLAC.

The workaround, since you obviously want...

Any input on this?

I have tried Asset R6 and R7, ID3v2.3 and ID3v2.4, different tagging software - nothing works.

FLAC no problem.

I'm trying to index BPM in Asset and it works with FLAC but not mp3.

It seems that the TBPM field for ID3 tags is not supported?

My suggestion would be to update your tags for the desired outcome.

You could use multiples:
GENRE=Rock; Hard Rock

Alternatively, you could implement STYLE:
GENRE=Rock
STYLE=Hard Rock

There's no definitive standard, but this should give you a start:

https://www.allmusic.com/genres (select a genre and scroll to the bottom for associated subgenres/styles)...

Are you 100% sure that you and the customer are ripping the same edition/remaster of the album?

Thanks. Actually most of my artist art is jpeg presently, but I want transparent backgrounds for band logos which jpeg doesn't support.

If anyone knows of a program or a plugin for Photoshop that...