Predefined Library Fields
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The table below lists Media Center's default fields. The rows list the available fields, and the columns indicate how the field is defined, and gives a brief explanation of the fields usage or meaning. Where applicable, additional links and field-specific information is also listed. The value for some fields is calculated by Media Center. When possible, the expression used to derive this value is also shown. In some cases, this value may be modified. Beneath a field name is a list of the default Search Keyword(s), if available, which are used for field-specific searching within Media Center.
The Save column indicates if the field is saved in file tags (prior to version 16.0.154, Media Center used the term Stored in the Manage Library Fields dialog). The Search column indicates if the field should be searched when using Media Center's Search area.
Note: Default Search Field. Beginning with MC17, the Default search field setting is not used for stock fields; instead searching fields relies on rules built into the program. Nearly all stock fields are now searched by default. User-defined fields will honor this setting.
Note: Legacy Fields. Some fields are legacy fields, possibly created during an upgrade from a previous version of Media Center. These are noted as "Legacy:" in the Description column. Your Library may not contain these fields.
Note: Some fields are used internally by Media Center to maintain state information, and are not viewable in panes, categories, or the Tag Action Window. These are typically configured through various options and settings dialogs.
Fields
| Field Name search keyword(s) |
Media Types | S a v e |
S e a r c h |
Data Type Edit Type Relational |
Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
A - CAccess Ratingaccessrating= |
Audio Image Video Data TV | ✓ | String Standard |
Specifies the access rating when access control is in effect.
See also: Access Control | |
| Actors actors= |
Audio Video | List List |
A semicolon-separated list of a movie's actors. | ||
| Album album= al= |
Audio Image Video Data TV | ✓ | ✓ | String Standard |
The name of the album. |
| Album Artist albumartist= |
Audio | ✓ | String Standard |
Designates the artist to use for compilation albums.
See also: Album Artist and Album Artist (Auto) | |
| Album Artist (auto) autoalbumartist= |
Audio | String Calculated, Editable |
Automatically calculated based on the contents of an album's Artist tracks.
Expression: AlbumArtist() See also: Album Artist and Album Artist (Auto) | ||
| Album Gain albumgain= ag= |
Audio | Decimal Clear-only |
Automatically calculated gain for an album, based on Replay Gain. Obsolete in MC19.
See also: Album Gain | ||
| Album Type albumtype= |
Audio | String Calculated, Not editable |
Automatically calculated value indicating if the album has a single artist or multiple artists, and if the album is complete.
Expression: AlbumType() See also: Multiple Artist Albums#Complete Albums | ||
| Altitude | Image | String Standard |
Camera's GPS altitude when photo was taken.
See also: Photo Tagging | ||
| Aperture | Image | String Not editable |
Camera's aperture setting used to create the photo.
See also: Photo Tagging | ||
| Artist artist= ar= |
Audio Image Video Data TV | ✓ | ✓ | List Standard |
Track artist, or movie's director.
See also: Album Artist and Album Artist (Auto), YADB |
| Artist - Album (Year) | Audio | String Calculated, Not editable |
Automatically calculated field used for album grouping.
Expression: Clean([Artist] - [Album] /([FormatDate([Date, 0), Year)/)) | ||
| Aspect Ratio aspect= |
Video | String Standard |
Video aspect ratio. | ||
| Audio Analysis Info | Audio | String Not editable |
Automatically calculated data created and used by audio analysis engine.
See also: Audio Settings and Analysis, Analyze Audio | ||
| Author | Audio Data | List List |
A semicolon-separated list of a document's authors. | ||
| Band band= bd= |
Audio | ✓ | ✓ | String Standard |
Designates a track's band. |
| Bios bios= bio= |
Audio | ✓ | String Large |
Legacy: Musicmatch musician or group biography. | |
| Bit Depth bitrate= |
Audio Video | Integer Not editable |
Audio / video bit depth. | ||
| Bitrate | Audio Video | ✓ | Integer Not editable |
Audio / video bitrate, in bits per second (bps). | |
| Bookmark | Audio Video | String Clear-only |
Specifies the bookmark location for resumption of playback.
See also: Bookmarking | ||
| BPM bpm= |
Audio | ✓ | Integer Standard |
Beats-per-minute, calculated automatically during audio analysis. | |
| Budget | Video | String Standard |
A movie's financial budget. | ||
| Camera | Image | ✓ | String Standard |
Camera EXIF tag.
See also: Photo Tagging | |
| Caption caption= |
Image | ✓ | ✓ | String Standard |
An image's caption. |
| Catalog # | Audio Image Video Data TV | ✓ | String Standard |
***TBD*** | |
| Category Image Category | Image | String Not editable |
***TBD*** | ||
| Channels | Audio Video | Integer Not editable |
Number of playback channels | ||
| Cinematographer | Video | List List |
A semicolon-separated list of a movie's cinematographer(s). | ||
| Comment comment= c= |
Audio Image Video Data TV | ✓ | ✓ | String Standard |
A general use comment field. |
| Complete Album completealbum= |
Audio | Integer Not editable |
Indicates if an album is a complete album.
See also: Multiple Artist Albums#Complete Albums | ||
| Composer composer= |
Audio | ✓ | ✓ | List Standard |
The composer of a piece or work, typically used with classical music. |
| Compression | Audio Video | String Not editable |
The compression type and scheme used for compressed audio/video. | ||
| Conductor conductor= |
Audio | ✓ | List Standard |
The conductor of a piece or work, typically used with classical music. | |
| Copyright copyright= |
Audio Image Video Data TV | ✓ | String Standard |
Media copyright information. | |
| Country country= |
Audio Image Video Data TV | List List |
A semicolon-separated list of countries relevant to the media. | ||
| Credits credits= |
Video | List List |
A semicolon-separated list of movie credits. | ||
| Critic Rating | Audio Image Video Data TV | String Standard |
Critic Rating, like Rotten Tomato or Allmusic score. | ||
| Custom | Audio Image Video Data TV | ✓ | String Standard |
General use custom field. | |
| Custom 1 | Audio Image Video Data TV | ✓ | String Standard |
General use custom field (may not exist). | |
| Custom 2 | Audio Image Video Data TV | ✓ | String Standard |
General use custom field (may not exist). | |
| Custom 3 | Audio Image Video Data TV | ✓ | String Standard |
General use custom field (may not exist). | |
D - FDatedate= d= |
Audio Image Video Data TV | ✓ | Date Standard |
General date of media. | |
| Date (day) | Audio Image Video Data TV | Integer Calculated, Editable |
Day of month segment of Date.
Expression: FormatDate(Day)&DataType=[Integer] | ||
| Date (filename friendly) | Audio Image Video Data TV | String Calculated, Not editable |
A version of Date that has been cleaned for use in filenames.
Expression: FormatDate(Filename) | ||
| Date (month) | Audio Image Video Data TV | String Calculated, Editable |
Month segment of Date.
Expression: FormatDate(Month)&DataType=[Month] | ||
| Date (year) year= |
Audio Image Video Data TV | Integer Calculated, Editable |
Year segment of Date.
Expression: FormatDate(Year)&DataType=[Number] See also: YADB | ||
| Date Created | Audio Image Video Data TV | Unknown Not editable |
A file's creation date/time as reported by the system. | ||
| Date Imported dateimported= |
Audio Image Video Data TV | Unknown Not editable |
The date the media was imported into the MC / MJ database.
See also: [1] | ||
| Date Modified | Audio Image Video Data TV | Unknown Not editable |
A file's modification date/time, as reported by the system. | ||
| Date Recorded | Video TV | ✓ | Date Standard |
The date/time of a video recording. | |
| Description | Audio Image Video Data TV | ✓ | ✓ | String Large |
A general description of the media. |
| Dimensions | Image Video | String Calculated, Not editable |
Automatically calculated image/video dimensions.
Expression: Clean([Width] x [Height]) | ||
| Direction | Image | String List |
Camera's directional heading when photo was taken.
See also: Photo Tagging | ||
| Director director= |
Audio Video | List Standard |
A semicolon-separated list of a movie's directors. | ||
| Disc # | Audio Video | ✓ | ✓ | Integer Standard |
The disc number, for multi-disc audio or video sets.
See also: Multidisc Albums |
| Distributor | Video | List List |
A semicolon-separated list of a movie's distributors. | ||
| DLNA Server Info | Audio Image Video Data TV | String Not editable |
Internal information for the MC DLNA server. | ||
| Duration length= duration= |
Audio Video | Unknown Not editable |
The duration of an audio / video track. | ||
| DVD Video Info | Video | String Standard |
Internal information used for a DVD. | ||
| Dynamic Range (R128) | Audio Video | ✓ | Integer Clear-only |
An automatically calculated value indicating R128 Dynamic Range (overall dynamic range).
See also: [2] | |
| Dynamic Range (DR) | Audio Video | ✓ | Integer Clear-only |
An automatically calculated value indicating Dynamic Range (crest factor).
See also: [3] | |
| Edit Info | Image | String Not editable |
Internal information used for image editing. | ||
| Editor | Audio Image Video | List List |
A semicolon-separated list of the editor(s) used to capture/create a video. | ||
| Embedded CUE | Audio | String Not editable |
Automatically calculated data indicating file uses embedded CUE file. | ||
| Encoding Settings | Audio Image Video Data TV | String Standard |
Description | ||
| Episode | Audio Video TV | ✓ | String Standard |
Episode number of a television / video series. | |
| Episode URL | Audio Image Video Data TV | ✓ | String Not editable |
URL of a single podcast episode. | |
| Events events= |
Audio Image Video Data TV | ✓ | ✓ | List List |
A semicolon-separated list to specify relevant events for the media. |
| Feed URL | Audio Image Video Data TV | ✓ | String Not editable |
URL of a podcast feed. | |
| File Size size= |
Audio Image Video Data TV | Unknown Not editable |
A file's on disc size (human readable, unitized and rounded). | ||
| File Type filetype= |
Audio Image Video Data TV | ✓ | String Standard |
The type of file (e.g. mp3, jpg, flac, pdf). | |
| Filename filename= location= |
Audio Image Video Data TV | ✓ | Unknown File |
The full pathname to the location of a file. | |
| Filename (name) | Audio Image Video Data TV | String Calculated, Editable |
The name-only portion of [Filename].
Expression: FileName() | ||
| Filename (path) | Audio Image Video Data TV | Unknown Calculated, Editable |
The path-only portion of [Filename].
Expression: FilePath()&DataType[Path] | ||
| Flash | Image | String Not editable |
Indicates if a camera's flash was used to take image.
See also: Photo Tagging | ||
| Flickr Info | Image Video | String Not editable |
Description | ||
| Focal Length | Image | String Not editable |
The lens focal length used when a image was captured.
See also: Photo Tagging | ||
| FPS framerate= fps= |
Video | Decimal Standard |
The number of frames-per-second in a video/movie. | ||
G - IGenregenre= g= |
Audio Image Video Data TV | ✓ | ✓ | List Standard |
Genre of media.
See also: YADB |
| Get Cover Art Info | Audio Video Data | String Not editable |
Description | ||
| Get Metadata Info | Audio Video Data | String Not editable |
Description | ||
| Gross Revenue | Video | String Standard |
A movie's gross reported revenue. | ||
| Grouping | Audio Image Video Data TV | ✓ | String Standard |
For support of the iTunes Grouping field.
See also: [4] | |
| Height height= |
Image Video | Integer Not editable |
The height dimension of an image/video (see also Dimensions above). | ||
| Image File imagefile= |
Audio Video | ✓ | Unknown Not editable |
The name of the associated artwork for audio/video.
See also: Cover Art | |
| IMDb ID | Video | ✓ | Unknown Standard |
The unique Internet Movie Database identifier for video lookups. | |
| Instrument | Audio | ✓ | String Standard |
A song's primary instrument. | |
| Intensity intensity= |
Audio | ✓ | Integer Standard |
A musical intensity metric automatically calculated during audio analysis. Obsoleted in MC19. Values: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 | |
| ISO | Image | String Not editable |
The ISO standard film speed used when an image was captured.
See also: Photo Tagging | ||
| Keywords keyword= keywords= kw= |
Audio Image Video Data TV | ✓ | ✓ | List List |
A semicolon-separated list of user-defined keywords. |
| Language | Audio Image Video Data TV | List List |
A semicolon-separated list of languages. | ||
| Last Played lastplayed= |
Audio Image Video Data TV | Unknown Clear-only |
Date / time the file was last played or viewed. | ||
| Last Skipped lastskipped= |
Audio Image Video Data TV | Unknown Clear-only |
Date / time the file was last skipped.
See also: Skip Count | ||
| Latitude | Image | String Standard |
Camera's GPS latitude when photo was taken.
See also: Photo Tagging | ||
| Lens lens= |
Image | ✓ | ✓ | String Standard |
Lens description from EXIF tag (Canon cameras).
See also: Photo Tagging |
| Library Server Info | Audio Image Video Data TV | String Not editable |
Internal information used to manage state for Library Server. | ||
| Library Server Key | Audio Image Video Data TV | Integer Not editable |
Internal authorization key used to help secure Library Server. | ||
| Library Server URL | Audio Image Video Data TV | String Not editable |
URL used to specify location of Library Server. | ||
| Longitude | Image | String Standard |
Camera's GPS longitude when photo was taken.
See also: Photo Tagging | ||
| Lyricist | Audio Video | ✓ | String Standard |
The lyricist responsible for a work. | |
| Lyrics lyrics= |
Audio Video | ✓ | String Large |
User-stored lyrics or transcription. | |
M - OMedia Sub Typemediasubtype= |
Audio Image Video Data TV | ✓ | String Standard |
More specific sub-classification of Media Type, generally used to drive Media Center behavior in some fashion. Values: Adult, Audiobook, Book, Educational, Home Video, Karaoke, Movie, Music, Music Video, Other, Photo, Podcast, Radio, Remix, Ringtone, Short, Single, Stock, System, Test Clip, Trailer, TV Show | |
| Media Type mediatype= |
Audio Image Video Data TV | ✓ | String Standard |
General classification of media type. Values: Audio, Image, Video, TV, Data, Playlist | |
| Mix Album mixalbum= |
Audio | ✓ | Integer Not editable |
Used to specify if an album is a mix album. | |
| Mood mood= |
Audio | ✓ | String Standard |
Legacy: Musicmatch mood classification of a song. | |
| MPAA Rating mpaa= |
Video | String Standard |
A movies MPAA rating. | ||
| MPAA Rating Description | Video | String Standard |
A textual description of MPAA rating. | ||
| Music By | Video | List List |
A semicolon-separated list of people responsible for a movie's music. | ||
| Name name= title= n= |
Audio Image Video Data TV | ✓ | ✓ | String Standard |
The primary name associated with a file. When used as thumbnail or caption text, [Name] takes on the name of the current category in Category or Theater views. |
| Notes notes= |
Audio Image Video Data TV | ✓ | String Large |
General notes associated with a file. | |
| Number Plays numberplays= |
Audio Image Video Data TV | Integer Clear-only |
An automatically updated statistic indicating the number of times a file has been played/viewed.
See also: Changing the number of plays | ||
| Orchestra | Audio | ✓ | String Standard |
The name of the orchestra responsible for performing a piece, typically used with classical music. | |
| Orientation | Image | ✓ | String Calculated, Not editable |
An image's orientation as Landscape, Portrait, or Square.
Expression: Orientation() | |
| Original Title | Audio Image Video Data TV | String Standard |
The original title given to a work. | ||
P - RPeak Levelpeaklevel= |
Audio | ✓ | Percentage Clear-only |
An automatically calculated value indicating the percentage of an audio track's maximum level before clipping would occur. Obsoleted in MC19.
See also: Overflow Handling, Technical Information on Replay Gain Adjustment, Analyze Audio, [5] | |
| Peak Level (R128) peaklevel= |
Audio Video | ✓ | String Clear-only |
An automatically calculated value indicating R128 Peak Level in dBTP (aka True Peak Level).
See also: [6] | |
| Peak Level (Sample) | Audio Video | ✓ | String Clear-only |
An automatically calculated value indicating R128 Peak Level inside the file.
See also: [7] | |
| People people= |
Audio Image Video Data TV | ✓ | ✓ | List List |
A semicolon-separated list of people associated with a work. |
| Period | Audio | ✓ | String Standard |
A musical period, typically used with classical music. | |
| Places places= |
Audio Image Video Data TV | ✓ | ✓ | List List |
A semicolon-separated list of places associated with a work. |
| Playback Channel Key | TV | Integer Not editable |
Description | ||
| Playback Device | TV | String Not editable |
Description | ||
| Playback Info | Audio Video | String Standard |
Description | ||
| Playback Range playbackrange= |
Audio Video | String Standard |
Specifies the begin and end times for A-B repeat.
See also: Playback Range (A-B Playback) | ||
| Popularity | Audio Image Video Data TV | String Standard |
Flexible popularity field (e.g. for web radio, '3123 listeners'). | ||
| Preference preference= |
Audio | ✓ | String Standard |
Legacy: Musicmatch subjective classification of a user's preference for a song. | |
| Prequel | Video | List List |
The prequel to a movie. | ||
| Producer producer= |
Audio Image Video Data TV | List List |
A semicolon-separated list of responsible producer(s) | ||
| Protection Type protectiontype= |
Audio Video | String Not editable |
Indication of the type of DRM protection. | ||
| Publisher | Audio Image Video Data TV | ✓ | String Standard |
A work's publisher. | |
| Rating rating= r= |
Audio Image Video Data TV | ✓ | ✓ | Integer 5 Star |
A 5-star user rating. |
| Read Only readonly= |
Audio Image Video Data TV | Integer Not editable |
Indicates if the file is read-only. Values: 0, 1 | ||
| Recording Rule ID | TV | Integer Not editable |
An internal ID representing a TV recording rule. | ||
| Removable removable= |
Audio Image Video Data TV | Integer Calculated, Not editable |
Indicates if the file resides on removable media.
Expression: IsRemovable() | ||
| Replay Gain replaygain= rg= |
Audio | ✓ | Decimal Clear-only |
An automatically calculated value indicating the gain to be applied to an audio track. Obsoleted in MC19.
See also: Replay Gain, Album Gain, Audio Settings and Analysis, Analyze Audio | |
| Rerun | TV | Integer Not editable |
Flag indicating if TV show is a rerun. | ||
| Rotation | Image | Integer Standard |
The rotation (in degrees) applied to an image. | ||
S - USample Rate |
Audio Video | Integer Not editable |
The rate of sampling for an audio/video file. | ||
| Screenwriter screenwriter= |
Video | List List |
The screenwriter responsible for a movie. Note: Libraries created prior to 16.0.152 will have the typo "screenwirter" as the keyword. This may be corrected freely. | ||
| Season | Video TV | ✓ | String Standard |
The season of a movie/video series. | |
| Sequel | Video | List List |
The sequel to a movie. | ||
| Series | Audio Image Video TV | ✓ | ✓ | String Standard |
The series information for a movie or TV show. |
| Series Description | Audio Image Video TV | ✓ | ✓ | String Standard |
A description of the series for a movie or TV show. |
| Service: ID | Audio Image Video Data TV | ✓ | String Not editable |
Description | |
| Service: Item Info | Audio Image Video Data TV | ✓ | String Not editable |
Description | |
| Service: Name | Audio Image Video Data TV | ✓ | String Not editable |
Description | |
| Service: Stream Metadata | Audio Image Video Data TV | String Not editable |
Description | ||
| Shutter Speed | Image | String Not editable |
The shutter speed used to capture an image.
See also: Photo Tagging | ||
| Situation situation= |
Audio | ✓ | String Standard |
Legacy: Musicmatch subjective choice of situations for when playing the song would be appropriate or relevant. | |
| Skip Count skipcount= |
Audio Image Video Data TV | Integer Clear-only |
An automatically updated statistic indicating the number of times a file has been skipped.
See also: Last Skipped | ||
| Soloists | Audio | ✓ | List List |
A semicolon-separated list of soloists for a music work, typically used in classical music. | |
| Stack Conversion Type | Audio Image Video Data TV | String Not editable |
Unknown, seems currently unused. | ||
| Stack Files | Audio Image Video Data TV | String Not editable |
A list of internal IDs that reference each member of the stack. Set only in the stack's top member (auto-generated cache members will also have the ID). | ||
| Stack Tag stacktag= |
Audio Image Video Data TV | String Not editable |
Used to indicate if file was generated via handheld cache conversion or the Particle system. Values:' HH Conversion, Particle or empty. | ||
| Stack Top | Audio Image Video Data TV | Integer Not editable |
A unique numeric stack ID for each member of a stack, and -1 otherwise. | ||
| Stack View | Audio Image Video Data TV | Integer Not editable |
Determines if the stack is expanded (empty) or collapsed (1). | ||
| Store Field: Album ID | Audio Image Video Data TV | String Not editable |
Description | ||
| Store Field: Album Popularity | Audio Image Video Data TV | Integer Not editable |
Description | ||
| Store Field: Amg Album Review | Audio Image Video Data TV | String Not editable |
Description | ||
| Store Field: Amg Artist Bio | Audio Image Video Data TV | String Not editable |
Description | ||
| Store Field: Artist ID | Audio Image Video Data TV | String Not editable |
Description | ||
| Store Field: Artist Popularity | Audio Image Video Data TV | Integer Not editable |
Description | ||
| Store Field: Asset Code | Audio Image Video Data TV | String Not editable |
Description | ||
| Store Field: Assosciated Video ID | Audio Image Video Data TV | List Not editable |
Description | ||
| Store Field: Available Asset | Audio Image Video Data TV | String Not editable |
Description | ||
| Store Field: Download Date | Audio Image Video Data TV | Date Not editable |
Description | ||
| Store Field: Genre ID | Audio Image Video Data TV | String Not editable |
Description | ||
| Store Field: License Count | Audio Image Video Data TV | String Not editable |
Description | ||
| Store Field: License Reissue Count | Audio Image Video Data TV | String Not editable |
Description | ||
| Store Field: MP3 Available | Audio Image Video Data TV | ✓ | String Not editable |
Description | |
| Store Field: MusicNet File GUID | Audio Image Video Data TV | String Not editable |
Description | ||
| Store Field: New Release | Audio Image Video Data TV | Integer Not editable |
Description | ||
| Store Field: Number of Tracks | Audio Image Video Data TV | Integer Not editable |
Description | ||
| Store Field: Playlist Description | Audio Image Video Data TV | String Not editable |
Description | ||
| Store Field: Playlist Guid | Audio Image Video Data TV | String Not editable |
Description | ||
| Store Field: Playlist Image | Audio Image Video Data TV | String Not editable |
Description | ||
| Store Field: Playlist Name | Audio Image Video Data TV | String Not editable |
Description | ||
| Store Field: Playlist Type | Audio Image Video Data TV | String Not editable |
Description | ||
| Store Field: Purchase Date | Audio Image Video Data TV | Date Not editable |
Description | ||
| Store Field: Purchase Description | Audio Image Video Data TV | String Not editable |
Description | ||
| Store Field: Ranking | Audio Image Video Data TV | Integer Not editable |
Description | ||
| Store Field: Similar Artists | Audio Image Video Data TV | String Not editable |
Description | ||
| Store Field: Store Name | Audio Image Video Data TV | String Not editable |
Description | ||
| Store Field: Track ID | Audio Image Video Data TV | String Not editable |
Description | ||
| Studios studios= |
Video | List List |
A semicolon-separated list of responsible movie studios. | ||
| Style | Audio | ✓ | String Standard |
A musical style, typically used to further refine genre. | |
| Tag Line tagline= |
Video | String Standard |
A movie's branding or slogan. | ||
| Tempo tempo= |
Audio | ✓ | String Standard |
Legacy: Musicmatch subjective indication of a track's tempo. | |
| Text | Data | String Not editable |
General text describing a data file. | ||
| TheTVDB Series ID | Video TV | ✓ | Integer Standard Relational per-series |
The unique TVDB series identifier for video/tv lookups; use when performing Get Movie & TV Info, backdrop artwork queries, etc. | |
| Thumbnail Info | Audio Image Video Data TV | Integer Not editable |
Internal information used for view thumbnails. | ||
| Thumbnail Info (Local) | Audio Image Video Data TV | Integer Not editable |
Internal information used for view thumbnails. | ||
| Thumbnail Offset Large | Audio Image Video Data TV | Integer Not editable |
Internal information used for view thumbnails. | ||
| Thumbnail Offset Medium | Audio Image Video Data TV | Integer Not editable |
Internal information used for view thumbnails. | ||
| Thumbnail Offset Small | Audio Image Video Data TV | Integer Not editable |
Internal information used for view thumbnails. | ||
| Track # tracknumber= t= |
Audio Image Video | ✓ | ✓ | Integer Standard |
The track number of the song within an album. When used as Thumbnail text, will be the total number of files for the grouping. |
| TV Channel | TV | String Not editable |
The TV channel used for a TV recording.
See also: [8] | ||
| TV Channel Number | TV | String Standard |
Defines remote channel number used to tune TV Channel.
See also: [9] | ||
| TV Tuner Input Type | TV | String Not editable |
Description | ||
| TV XMLTV ID | TV | String Standard |
Stores ID used when mapping a channel to XMLTV data.
See also: [10] | ||
| UPC | Audio Image Video Data TV | ✓ | String Standard |
Universal Product Code. | |
| User u= |
Audio Image Video Data TV | ✓ | Unknown List |
A list of users allowed to see/access the file.
See also: [11] | |
| Usage Reporting Info | Audio Image Video Data TV | String Not editable |
Description | ||
| Use Bookmarking | Audio Video | String Standard |
Specifies if bookmarking is active for the track / video. Values: Default, Yes, No | ||
V - ZVideo Standard |
Video | String Standard |
The encoding/decoding video standard in use (e.g. NTSC, PAL, SECAM). | ||
| Volume Name volume= |
Audio Image Video Data TV | String Standard |
The name of the volume on which the file resides.
Expression: FileVolume() | ||
| Volume Level (R128) | Audio Video | ✓ | Decimal Clear-only |
An automatically calculated value indicating R128 Volume Level.
See also: [12] | |
| Volume Level (ReplayGain) | Audio Video | ✓ | Decimal Clear-only |
An automatically calculated value for ReplayGain backwards compatibility.
See also: [13] | |
| Web Media Info | Audio Image Video Data TV | ✓ | String Standard |
Description | |
| Web Media Search | Audio Image Video Data TV | ✓ | String Standard |
Description | |
| Web Media URL | Audio Image Video Data TV | ✓ | String Standard |
The URL of a remote media file, or for Scheduler recorded media, the value Recording... or Recorded Media. | |
| Width width= |
Image Video | Integer Not editable |
The width dimension of an image/video (see also Dimensions above). | ||
| Year - Album | Audio | String Calculated, Not editable |
An combination of Year and Album used for views, sorting, etc.
Expression: Clean(FormatDate([Date, ], Year) - [Album]) |
Custom Fields
Custom fields may be added with the Add New Field button in the Tools > Options > Libraries & Folders > Manage Library Fields... dialog.
Custom fields can act as library-wide global values, to be used in expressions, as columns, etc.
Custom fields may be calculated expression fields, in that they will be evaluated when used. Storage for calculated fields does not add additional library storage per file, since they are evaluated when used. If configured to be default search fields, calculated fields will produce some search performance penalty in search box suggestions, and possibly other library searches.
Values of calculated fields cannot be stored in file tags.
Tag Import Options
Media Center provides a few options for the importation of tags for some file types. These encoder-specific options are available under Tools > Options > Encoding > Encoder > Encoder settings... (pre-MC18, see Plug-in Manager > Input).
For images and video, Media Center will fill in the Album field with the year of the image or video (if the album field is otherwise empty). This puts a reasonable value there when importing directly from a digital camera. (TBD - should this be moved? Is it comprehensive wrt other types/fields?)
To import non-default file tags into Media Center, first create a custom field named exactly as the physical tag appears in the media file. Subsequent imports, or Update library (from tags) will populate the custom field with the file tag values. A tag dump will show the physical file tags for a single selected file.
Classical Music
The tagging of classical music is unfortunately more complex and standards are lax. See Tagging Classical Music.
Photos
For more comprehensive information on tagging photos, see Photo Tagging.
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- Note: Work in Progress. See this thread for details.
- Check if a file contains tag information
- Edit File Properties (tags)
- Save File Properties in Disk Files
- Remove Tags
- Sync the database and tags
- Licensed Files (Windows Media Manager)
- Multiple Artist Albums
- Re-rip existing music and keep tags and statistics
- Tree & View Settings
- Library Tools
- Cover Art
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