GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 624000
support searching via raw tags
Last modified: 2020-03-17 08:52:23 UTC
I was recently trying to locate all of my songs on an external media player that were missing ReplayGain tags, and came up with a rather convoluted solution[1]. What I'm asking for is not simply the ability to search ReplayGain tags, but any tags present in the file. It'd be nice if there were queries such as: * tag:replaygain (if "replaygain" is present in tags) * NOT tag:rating (files without a "rating" tag) * tag.replaygain_track_gain>=0.5 (files with a track gain gte 0.5) If Banshee did this it would have the most powerful search and library management capabilities out there. And it would save me time messing with find/grep/tagtool. :) [1] http://jacob.peddicord.net/2010/07/sneaky-songs.html
Do you knew about everything mentioned on http://banshee.fm/support/guide/searching/ ? That searching isn't quite what you're asking (since the tag values there might be only in Banshee's db, not in the files), but its as close as we're going to get I think. That said, we can add replay gain as one of the searchable columns which should pretty much cover your use-case.
Right, I was looking at that guide when filing this. :) Yes, having ReplayGain as an available keyword would be useful. However, there are sometimes other tags present in files that aren't stored in Banshee's database. However, it'd probably require that full ID3/vorbis/etc tag data be stored in the database, or that Banshee could perform searches in the filesystem. I understand that it might not be the most efficient thing to do, but I think it's still something worth thinking about.
I definitely don't see us adding raw-tag-backed searching to the normal search UI. What other info than RG are you talking about?
There's some sites/artists that add non-standard tags with additional info. It's not really a big deal, as there are other methods of searching for these types of songs. RG would be great for now. :D
Banshee is not under active development anymore and had its last code changes more than three years ago. Its codebase has been archived. Closing this report as WONTFIX as part of Bugzilla Housekeeping to reflect reality. Please feel free to reopen this ticket (or rather transfer the project to GNOME Gitlab, as GNOME Bugzilla is being shut down) if anyone takes the responsibility for active development again. See https://gitlab.gnome.org/Infrastructure/Infrastructure/issues/264 for more info.