mps;677239 Wrote:
> I want to create an artist rating tag independent of the average of the
> artist's song ratings, which seems to be used by Trackstat (is that
> correct?).
>
Yes, TrackStat only supports song ratings, the album/artist ratings is
just an average of the song ratings related to the album or artist.
mps;677239 Wrote:
>
> The CustomScan documentation talks about performer tags, which seems
> like what I want, but I can't figure out how to put performer data in
> the database? Is there an approved way of creating performer attribute
> data?
>
To get custom tags into the database you need to:
1. Add the tag to your music files using the tagging software of your
choice, Mp3Tag is pretty good if you are using Windows.
2. Configure Custom Tag scanning module inside Custom Scan to scan the
custom tag you have created
3. Create a menu in Custom Browse that makes it possible to browse your
music by the custom tag, typically you want to create a menu based on
one of the menu templates provided by Custom Scan plugin. Custom tags
can only be browsed through Custom Browse menus, they won't be shown in
the TrackStat browse menus.
As a side note, the PERFORMER tag typically contains the name of a
musician or other performer which performs on a song, so I'm not sure
that's what you want to use for storing a rating. It's probably more
suitable to just create a ARTISTRATING tag that contains a number
between 0-5 or something similar.
If you want to know how custom tags are stored in the database, the
custom tags scanned by Custom Scan plugin will be stored in
customscan_track_attributes table.
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