Does anyone know if it's possible to create user-defined field data by default?
I'm adding tags in the same Genre and will save time by not having to type over Discog's default. (Note: Highlighted field in screenshot below is intentionally blank.)
You want to fill the official GENRE with a fixed value like "My Fixed Genre Content"?
Or do you want to add an additional field like MYGENRE and a fixed content in it?
Could you please stop showing unrealistic manipulated examples (as the < keep > ones here)?
There is no such thing as an empty GENRE (or any other empty field).
Either you fill a GENRE with content or the GENRE field does not exist at all.
When I import tags from Discogs, their Metadata Album panel is prefilled with a Genre of their choice. I'm currently adding tags to recordings under one named Genre and I don't want to keep typing the same word to replace whatever is or isn't displayed whether the box checked or unchecked.
My simple solution is to use the Genre pulldown menu before I save and update Cover image, Cover Description and other fields. I set up the Genre to show Values from Custom list.
I'm kind of all over the place with updates since discovering MP3tag a couple of weeks ago. With this program and support, I've been able to make changes in one week that spared me more than a year to update my collection the way I've been doing for more than 20 years when I started transferring my recordings to mp3 format.
A little overwhelming at first, but fun and fast learning from reading many posts and quickly receiving answers to my questions. With all the much-appreciated help received I've been able to figure out this powerful program.
I have no more questions and will eventually figure out how to display or show the Ratings already tagged in Explorer or use a different method to verify.
There are 2 ways:
a) You can modify the used Websource Script manually* and add the fixed GENRE to the code
or
b) Load all songs into Mp3tag (for example once a day), select the ones that should become the same GENRE, type your content in the Tag Panel in the field GENRE and save it to all your selected tracks.
* For Discogs you would have to modify the Discogs.inc text file at line #240, #241 and a new #242 like this:
this would result in:
Of course you can choose whatever GENRE content you want instead of "fixed pgh-Genre".
As this Websource script is an official one, it will be overwritten with the next Mp3tag update.
Thanks - I don't have permission to save the modified Disco.inc file.
I opened, modified and tried to save the file with Notepad.
Any knowledge of how to change this setting because I'm the only administrator my desktop computer?
This is out of scope of the Mp3tag forum.
Please use your favorite search engine with terms like “windows 10 change file permission”
Usually, the discogs.inc file can be found in
%appdata%\Mp3tag\data\sources
You should not need any special access permission to write in your own user data directory.
You probably try to change the wrong file, if the file you want to change resides in the program folder of Mp3Tag. The fact that you do not have write permissions in this folder without special measures is due to a Windows protection mechanism.
If you have a standard installation the relevant file resides in
%appdata%\Mp3tag\data\sources
as LyricsLover already wrote.
You can navigate to this folder easily from Mp3Tag if you select
File->Open configuration folder
Please have a closer look at my suggestion here.
If you don't want that the Discogs script fills the genre you have to comment out both lines 240 and 241 with a leading #
In scripting, every single character counts.