Adding Multiple Values in one Tag Field

[Disco.Massimo]

I am complete newbie to MP3Tag. I've downloaded it today and started to look around. I mostly interested in MP3Tag to have my own Tagfields, and in most of them I want to have multiple entries.

For example I have a track that I can play Early Night in a Club or Very Early.
I would want to have a drop down With Choices Very Early, Early, Peak, Late, Very Late.
Then I would want to click on Very Early and Early and see both choices.
I have managed to create the custom list values.
I can drop down one choice only if I use the text type.
If I use multiline, I can't see a drop down and a way to enter the data from the custom list.
What am I doing wrong?
Thanks

[ohrenkino]

See the FAQs with an example for the genre field:

Add custom user-defined Genres

Add and Edit user-defined Genres via Custom List Values Every field on the Tag Panel can have custom values added to its drop-down list. These can be customized via Options → Tag Panel and the Genre field is no exception. You can use Options → Tag Panel → Genre → Custom list values → Manage... to edit the list of custom Genres and also hide the standard genres, if you prefer your own. The following screenshot exemplifies the process: [User-defined Genres] Import and Export of Custom Lis…

[LyricsLover]

@Disco.Massimo

Then I would want to click on Very Early and Early and see both choices.

I don't think that it is currently possible to choose multiple choices in a drop-down box in Mp3tag. You can only select one item at a time.

[poster]

@Disco.Massimo

Very Early, Early, Peak, Late, Very Late

You have to decide whether you want logical tagfields for each of your choices (Very Early, Early, Peak, Late, Very Late), or if you want to have 1 tagfield which you fill with the suiting content.
If you decide for 1 tagfield you have to use the filter function in Mp3Tag. For sorting you should use numbers to my opinion.

[ohrenkino]

The only way to add further preset values to a single field would be with actions.
For each string (Very Early, Early, Peak, Late, Very Late) create an action group with 2 actions:

1. Format value for the field
   Format string: %fieldname%\\Very early
2. Merge duplicate fields
   Fieldname, separator: ;

I agree that it is currently not

@LyricsLover

possible to choose multiple choices in a drop-down box

[LyricsLover]

Thanks for the confirmation.

BTW: The idea of adding multiple drop-down boxes for the same field is also not possible:

[Disco.Massimo]

Thanks everyone for their replies. It's a shame that this is not possible. But it is what it is.

[ohrenkino]

OK; you cannot define a dropdown list with checkboxes.
But you can create your own menu items, group them together in a submenu, assign your own keyboard hotkeys.
Are you keen on one particular technical solution or do you want to have the data finally in your tag field?

[7stones]

In the dropdown list in the tag panel, you could use the double backslash to create multiple values.

Though it will get messy with long lists or many multiples or mixing singles & multiples.

Very Early\\Early
Early\\Peak
Peak\\Late
Late\\Very Late

Not sure if this is what you want?

[LyricsLover]

@7stones

Though it will get messy with long lists or many multiples or mixing singles & multiples.

Just the five example GENREs "Very Early", "Early", "Peak", "Late", "Very Late" would result in over 30 combinations if you wanted to have all possible variants.

For those interested in maths:

With 6 GENREs: 6+15+20+15+6+1 = 63 combinations.
With 7 GENREs: 7+21+35+35+21+7+1 = 127 combinations.
With 8 GENREs: 8+28+56+70+56+28+8+1 = 255 combinations.

[7stones]

@LyricsLover

Just the five example GENREs "Very Early", "Early", "Peak", "Late", "Very Late" would result in over 30 combinations if you wanted to have all possible variants.

Yes in general I see very little practicality with this solution. In this case though, it seems to me that the OP only needs the nearest pairs time-wise as multiples (e.g. very early and early). Meaning just 4 multiples and possibly also the 5 singles. But it's only my guessing based on what the OP has said so far.