Getting composer tag from web sources

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Mp3tag has been great for getting tags from Discogs (or musicbrainz and freedb) into the mp3s of my vinyl collection for display in Windows Media Player. However, the Composer column in mp3tag remains blank, even though composers are shown against the tracks on the web page for the relevant Discogs ID. (Discogs says "written by").

I'm not really up to clever scripting stuff, but I don't understand why Composer doesn't come along with Track/Title/Artist info.

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see e.g. here:

Could be that the information is not included for every release. Just guessing.

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It's not supported yet in the standard script, but you can get it with the pone script:

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Ah, thanks, I think I'll try that, despite my inexperience with scripts. I see the pone mod thread has instructions at the top. Should I follow these substituting the newer "...2020_08_26.rar" file for the zip file originally referred to?

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Yes exactly. But if it is too complicated here's the "compiled" scripts. I also changed the settings so some Credits like Composer go in their own field.
pone-sources-with-Composer-tag.rar (102.9 KB)

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That sounds great. Many thanks

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Hmmm... 7-zip says it cannot open either of those files as an archive.

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Updated my 7-zip and I can open the compliled one, so hopefully that'll do it!

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I'm sorry to be a real newbie, but I've extracted the pone-sources-with-composer-tag rar, which gave me a bunch of src files which I put in the mp3tag profile folder. Running mp3tag again, I see no new "Discogs pone" option in the Tag Sources menu, which I thought is what would happen. I have no settings.mp3 file anywhere. Grateful for guidance.

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Hey - I figured it out! Put those src files in the sub-folder called "sources" and it works. Many thanks.
One more question... Is there a way to only fetch and write tags for one field (say the composer) whilst leaving all other tags unchanged?

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The only thing you can do is edit the src files (with a text editor) and write these commands at the very end:

set "title"
set "artist"
set "album"
...

set "fieldname" for any field you don't want.

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Great! Hours of fun. Thank you!

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Interestingly, the line
set "title"
doesn't stop the title tag being re-written, though "track" "year" "artist" "album" and "albumartist" do and that's all I need.
Are you an author of mp3tag, Dano?

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Yea I forgot, I think you need set "tracks" to remove the titles.
No, the author is @Florian

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Well, thank you both. I have donated.

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You can add this code which I created with the help of ChatGPT to any Discogs .src file and you will have the Written-By fields as Composer. I guess it works in the Pone src files and also in the default Discogs files:


# COMPOSER - Extract "Written By"
outputto "COMPOSER"
json_foreach "tracklist"
    set "TEMP_Composer"
    json_foreach "extraartists"
        json_select "role"
        if "Written-By"
            json_select "name"
            ifnotoutput "TEMP_Composer"
                outputto "TEMP_Composer"
            else
                say "; "
            endif
            sayrest
        endif
    json_foreach_end
    ifoutput "TEMP_Composer"
        outputto "COMPOSER"
        sayoutput "TEMP_Composer"
        set "TEMP_Composer" # Variable leeren
    endif
    say "|"
json_foreach_end