Foobar2000 Talk:Title Formatting Reference: Difference between revisions

Latest revision as of 15:35, 25 January 2013

Editing guidelines

Do not document redundant fields such as %playlist_number%. When there is more than one way to do something, only document the way that is described in the official manual; the other ones may be old version leftovers or temporary for some other reason.
Remember: less information is better if it still satisfies 99.99% of the people reading this.

Metadata

In my opinion the metadata description needs to be expanded. For instance, I have no idea what the following means, or what the function does based on that argument: Example: $meta(artist) → "He, She, It" At least put a proper artist title in the quotations to give us an adequate description of the function. 68.80.11.34 07:59, 2 October 2012 (CEST)

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-is there a way to change the field remappings? for instance, i want to make use of the MB-supplied ORIGYEAR field when possible for the %DATE% field.. --[[User:Herr klang|Herr klang]] 15:33, 12 Jun 2005 (CDT)
+== Editing guidelines ==
+* Do not document redundant fields such as %playlist_number%. When there is more than one way to do something, only document the way that is described in the official manual; the other ones may be old version leftovers or temporary for some other reason.
+* Remember: less information is better if it still satisfies 99.99% of the people reading this.
-IMO, this page is too complicated and too long. Suggest a table formatted version. See titleformat_help.html in your foobar program directory. Perhaps this page should exist as an expanded version to be consistent? --[[User:Reglib|Reglib]] 02:01, 3 May 2006 (CDT)
+== Metadata ==
+In my opinion the metadata description needs to be expanded.
+For instance, I have no idea what the following means, or what the function does based on that argument:
-{| border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 style=""
+Example: $meta(artist) → "He, She, It"
-! colspan="2" style="font-size:larger" | Metadata
+At least put a proper artist title in the quotations to give us an adequate description of the function. [[Special:Contributions/68.80.11.34|68.80.11.34]] 07:59, 2 October 2012 (CEST)
-|-
-! %album artist%
-| Defined as ''$if3($meta(album artist),$meta(artist),$meta(composer),$meta(performer))''.
-|-
-! %album%
-| Defined as ''$if3($meta(album),$meta(venue))''.
-|-
-! %artist%
-| Defined as ''$if3($meta(artist),$meta(album artist),$meta(composer),$meta(performer))''.
-|-
-! %disc%
-%discnumber%
-| Returns the disc number. The disc number is taken from the discnumber tag; if that does not exist, it is taken from the disc tag. If neither exist, the field is undefined.
-|-
-! %track artist%
-| Defined as ''$meta(artist)'', if ''$meta(album artist)'' is different than ''$meta(artist)'', otherwise this field is empty.
-|-
-! %title%
-| Defined as ''$if2($meta(title),%_filename%)''. Returns the ''title'' tag if available, otherwise it returns the filename excluding the extension.
-|-
-! %track%
-%tracknumber%
-| Returns the tracknumber padded to two digits from the left with zeroes. The tracknumber is taken from the tracknumber tag; if that does not exist, it is taken from the track tag. If neither exist, this field is undefined.
-|}
-{| border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 style=""
-! colspan="2" style="font-size:larger" | Technical information
-|-
-! %bitrate%
-| Defined as ''$if2($info(bitrate_dynamic),$info(bitrate))''. Returns the current bitrate, if available, otherwise it returns the average bitrate. If neither is available, nothing is returned.
-|-
-! %channels%
-| Defined as ''$channels()''. Returns the number of channels in text form; returns "mono" and "stereo" instead of "1" and "2".
-|-
-! %filesize%
-| Defined as ''%_filesize%''. Returns the filesize in bytes.
-|-
-! %samplerate%
-| Defined as ''$info(samplerate)''. Returns the samplerate in Hz.
-|-
-! %codec%
-| Defined as ''$codec()''.
-|}