Labels to metadata

[steve]

This is more a question than a feature request (at the moment).

There is a feature request listed on the wiki:
Labels include metadata (4 votes) - not a request for cue sheet support, instead this gives a way in compilation albums to pass other than track Title and Track Number to Metadata Editor

Does anyone know what that feature request means?
Is the feature requested that label text becomes metadata on export?

[Gale Andrews]

This is more a question than a feature request (at the moment).

There is a feature request listed on the wiki:
Labels include metadata (4 votes) - not a request for cue sheet support, instead this gives a way in compilation albums to pass other than track Title and Track Number to Metadata Editor

Does anyone know what that feature request means?
Is the feature requested that label text becomes metadata on export?

Yes. It would be an alternative (that some think would be more convenient) to adding metadata for each track into Metadata Editor. The user could then hide Metadata Editor even for compilation albums.


Gale

[steve]

Yes. It would be an alternative (that some think would be more convenient) to adding metadata for each track into Metadata Editor. The user could then hide Metadata Editor even for compilation albums.

I can see how that could be much more convenient when using Export Multiple.
A further use could be for creating concatenated Ogg (or Opus) files.

Has any thought been given (that is, anything written about) how this would work from a user perspective? For example, how would a user create a label that adds "Track Title", or "Genre" tags?

[Gale Andrews]

Yes. It would be an alternative (that some think would be more convenient) to adding metadata for each track into Metadata Editor. The user could then hide Metadata Editor even for compilation albums.

I can see how that could be much more convenient when using Export Multiple.
A further use could be for creating concatenated Ogg (or Opus) files.

You mean linked streams in a single OGG/OPUS file?

Has any thought been given (that is, anything written about) how this would work from a user perspective? For example, how would a user create a label that adds "Track Title", or "Genre" tags?

Nothing's been written. I could see that there might be a widget to open a mini version of the Metadata Editor, or even that the widget actually opened the Metadata Editor for that track (as if you were at the export stage and jumped to the Metadata Editor window for that track).

Also, that could allow the label itself to carry independent text that would not be used for metadata.

Gale

[steve]

You mean linked streams in a single OGG/OPUS file?

Yes.
For example, you could have an album as one file, but each track on the album is a separate stream with its own metadata, so that when played in a suitable media player, the appropriate track information would be displayed for the current song.