Hi there, I’m wondering if Symfonium can read some tags from the Foobar2000 tag, such as Label (intended as record label) and Performer.
The first one I see it into Album Information, so I expect that exists the tag to insert into the player while a song is running, but if I use "%label%, or %recordlabel% or %publisher% doesn’t work.
The second one, performer, I didn’t really find it.
I use Navidrome as server.
The Label tag is already being read for navigation. If you go to your Albums list and look in Smart Filters > Add Rule > Label, you should see your tags in there.
There is not currently a way to display that info in any of the custom string options. That’s why %label% and such don’t work. I noticed this before but didn’t have a need for it myself, so I didn’t ask for it.
If you have a need for this feature, you’ll need to request it in the Feature requests category.
I don’t use Foobar2000 so help me out: how is Performer different from Artist? I would assume they are the same data.
Performer sounds like an Artist Tag. The best way to utilize artist tags IMO is with the artist NFO folder. I doubt there’s a 1:1 read for that tag in Symfonium if the tag is actually ‘PERFORMER’ with some value.
The good news is if you have that data tagged on files there’s a way to “translate” that in batch so that Symfonium can read it
Well, in the meantime I went on to investigate.
I use Navidrome and following their support I created the custom tag label, while Performer is already read, as you can see here:
Then I go on Symfonium, but if I use for example {%label%} in the player custom string I don’t see nothing.
For Performer field, I don’t understand because Symfonium reads Composer and not Performer, since they are on the same level.
I made also a rescan on Symfonium of my music library but it didn’t resolve.
Following as I see the tags in row tags tab in Navidrome.
As I said in my first post, Symfonium did not support that string yet. The new Beta seems to have added that feature so it will be available to you eventually.
It looks like you’re putting the Album Artist in the “Artist” field and Performing Artists in the “Performer” field…
Why not just use ALBUMARTIST for the former and ARTIST for the latter? These two are the generally accepted fields that 99% of music players will look at. “Performer” doesn’t seem to be doing anything special.
It’s a pity,
I use also Foobar2000 and I usually use ARTIST in case of those albums like David Bowie, Queen, etc. leaving ALBUMARTIST empty.
I have many hip hop albums that are published by a producer, and on his tracks sing various rappers: in this case I put their names in ARTIST and the name of the producer in ALBUMARTIST, in this way Foobar2000 creates a groupheader for the album in which there is ALBUMARTIST and in songs list, near every song titles, there are the artists.
Returning to conventional albums, many hip hop artists use featurings, since Foobar2000 has another tag field, PERFORMER, I use that field for these.
Anyway I read in other threads that whatever tags Navidrome had, Symfonium would have taken it accordingly, then I misunderstood.
Yes, the default tags. AFAIK Symfonium does not support any custom tag fields. “PERFORMER” is a custom field that you created so even if Navidrome was passing that data, Symfonium doesn’t know what to do with it.
That’s the biggest issue with using custom tag fields. Either your player supports it, or it doesn’t. Foobar2000 and MusicBee (both on PC) can read/write custom tags and the user can specify how to use that info. Symfonium does not do those things.
The commonly accepted way of tagging these is to have the main artist under ALBUMARTIST and the featured artists under ARTIST field. You are, of course, free to tag things how you like but doing so limits the number of players available to you.
While I don’t see the point of it in your case, it’s great for stuff like classical music (to separate Conductor, Soloist, etc).
Tl;dr: Symfonium doesn’t support custom tag fields. Your options are to either use the supported standard fields in some way, or make a feature request for “Custom tag field” support.
Thanks to Foobar2000 which is highly customizable I could change some scripts in order to appear as I want using only ALBUMARTIST and ARTIST, so it becomes more standard as the other players.
I wish at least the Label tag, now in the beta version only, will be official with the next releases.
Thanks for your support
As they already told you when using Navidrome Symfonium does not read any tags, it only see what the API support, album labels are supported and already exists in the app. The beta only adds support in custom strings and unrelated to whatever issue you have.
Ok, this could be enough, I asked just that, that is the chance to use label in custom string.
