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Custom Fields - How do you use them?
Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2011 9:41 am
by timelezz
I'm a curious person. How do you make use of the Custom Fields that MM offers? I use them as:
CUSTOM1: Language
CUSTOM2: Country
CUSTOM3: Topic (what subject is the song about)
CUSTOM4: Fe/Male
CUSTOM5: Instruments
I love these fields as they alleviate the GENRE field. Values like "Spanish", "Portugal", "Politics", "Female fronted metal", "piano pop" are now intercepted. I also use the classifications 'mood' and 'occasion' to intercept values like "sex" "fun", "party", "morose", et cetera. And I use GenreFinder to fill these values automatically. Sounds cool huh
If, how do you use these custom fields?
Re: Custom Fields - How do you use them?
Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2011 11:01 am
by Lowlander
Custom4: FreeDB/IMDB ID
Custom5: PUiD
1-3 aren't used, I'm hoping Language get's it's own field now videos have been added.
Re: Custom Fields - How do you use them?
Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2011 11:02 am
by nynaevelan
CUSTOM1: Gender
CUSTOM2: Custom Occasion
CUSTOM3: Additional Albums
CUSTOM4: PUID
CUSTOM5: Duplicate Status
Re: Custom Fields - How do you use them?
Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2011 2:08 pm
by nohitter151
Custom 1 = Purchase status: Amazon, CD, Free download from artist, Last.fm free download (or blank if not obtained in a strictly legal manner
)
All others unused
Re: Custom Fields - How do you use them?
Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2011 3:43 am
by Eyal
Custom1:
Source (of the tracks)
Custom2:
Country (artist's)
Custom3:
Synchro (list of devices & dates the track was synchronized to) [ my own script ]
Custom4:
Gapless (yes/no) [
http://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/viewto ... =2&t=42775 ]
Custom5:
Playlists (playlists the track belongs to) [
http://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/viewto ... =2&t=39589 ]
:~)
Re: Custom Fields - How do you use them?
Posted: Mon Dec 26, 2011 1:16 am
by lobojon
I am so glad to see this topic since I have spent the last three years learning to clean my files a bit and know that there is so much more to do. Now, I will begin to follow y'all how to use the custom fields. Thanks for noting your organization style. Now I just need to learn how to do. Peace out.
Re: Custom Fields - How do you use them?
Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2012 12:42 pm
by Anamon
This is the system I have developed over the years and that I find perfect for my purposes:
Custom 1: Catalogue (label catalogue number of release)
Custom 2: Release (release date as yyyy-mm-dd for easy sorting, with '00' for unknown days or months)
Custom 3: Source (recorded from where; e.g. CDDA or Vinyl 12")
Custom 4: Keywords (whatever I want... instruments, elements, things it reminds me of, time of day I think it fits best... incl. Magic Node for these)
Custom 5: Origin (country of origin, if one can be clearly determined; e.g. where a band is originally from)