MP3 Encoded Bitrate Quality In 'Attributes' Tab

[UliNobbe]

Hello @RedPanda,

this issue has come up in the past years in the german section a few times.

In brief:

• %_bitrate% is a technical information, not an attribute.
  Therefore it can not be imported by default (same as frequency or bit depth, by example).

• In Mp3tag you can add an individual attribute from the technical information (details see in this screenshot). This attribute can be read in mAirList as a standard attribute. I hope, it works with mp3; my test was based on flac.

@RedPanda

Reason is, because if you have duplicate files, and you want to choose the higher quality file, this will at least help and make it easier to choose the best option. When searching the database, and duplicates come up, there is no way to tell what is what.

In the discussion the opinion came up that you should only store the best quality in your database and separate the other files to another folder.
The mAirListDB is not the best place to search for or choose between duplicate files.
There are much better tools available.

However, you can find those duplicates by exporting the database as a *.csv file in a Calc sheet and sort it there.

In addition, I’m not sure if mAirList imports all ID3 information to “Other Attributes”. In flac (Vorbis comment) it does. Maybe it has something to do with the metadata structure.