Feature description:
I manage my music in MusicBee and have all of my favourite tracks “loved” there and use this tag for a bunch of smart playlists.
It would be super useful if Symfonium’s “favourite” function also referenced this tag so that I could see which tracks have been liked and edit them from both my desktop and DAP/phone.
Currently I can export static copies of my MusicBee smart playlists just fine, but I’d prefer to just make duplicate smart playlists on Symfonium, and then the tag would make sure both platforms are mirrored.
Ideally it would function similarly to how “Tag ratings as user ratings” works for star ratings, allowing users to decide whether to opt in if it’s their personal collection, or opt out if it’s a shared collection and continue to store their favourites separately.
A post on the MusicBee forum (the first result when I googled “MusicBee tag mapping”) gives these identifiers for the tag:
ID3v2.3/2.4: TXXX/LOVE RATING
Windows Media: musicbee/LOVE RATING
Vorbis Comment: LOVE RATING
MPEG-4: LOVERATING
Problem solved:
This solves the problem of a users “likes/favourites” being out of sync between multiple platforms/players.
Brought benefits:
Allows compatibility and parity for players like MusicBee and similar that feature a “like” feature, allowing users with extensive collections of smart playlists already set up to smoothly transition to Symfonium rather than repeatedly exporting static copies of their playlists.
Other application solutions:
Additional description and context:
The tag appears to have three states, it’s either empty, “Love”, or “Ban”, viewing my collection in MusicBrainz Picard I can see that it stores love and ban as “L” and “B”
Banning prevents a track from being played or filtered into any auto playlists, but the track remains visible and playable in your library.
In MB, you ban by shift clicking the love button, I guess this could be a press and hold on the favourite button, but this functionality is not as important to me as the rest of the feature request, I can see via the search function that your recommended ways to “ban” tracks are either to hide from library or set a mood as “duplicate” or similar and filter that out from smart playlists.
