Metadata file tags
Can we have tags on file properties metadata for windows explorer, just like JPEG files do? That way I can organize, find and sort all my musescore files any way I want using windows file explorer. For example, by type (jigs or reels etc), by name, by origin (Irish, bluegrass), etc. Many thanks.
Andrew
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Yes, that'd be useful. Feel free to request this on GitHub, https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/issues/new/choose
Actually such a request exists already, see https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/issues/27351
JPEG and other image formats have special handling in File Explorer. Sadly, it's not possible to add File Explorer tags to other types of file in a way that would be preserved when the file is moved to a non-NTFS device (e.g. if you email it, put it on a USB stick or SD card, or upload it to MuseScore.com or other cloud storage).
Also, any tags you add yourself (e.g. with a third party tool like File Meta Association Manager) would be lost when MuseScore Studio next saves the file. This is because, when you save, MuseScore doesn't overwrite the original file directly. Instead, MuseScore saves the file to a temporary location (and checks this was successful) before renaming it to replace the original file. This means any tags on the original file would be lost (unless MuseScore went out of its way to preserve them, which isn't worth the effort because of the non-NTFS problem).
So I don't think we can add tags that File Explorer will use, but we could expose more columns for score properties in the Recent Files list within MuseScore Studio, which is what #27351 is about.
In reply to JPEGs and other image… by shoogle
In case of Mp3 files, it is possible to add metadatas like title, composer etc.. since the mp3encoder uses LAME. I've managed to add title to exported mp3 as shown. Maybe this is what is pretended by this thread.
In reply to In case of Mp3 files, it is… by shanenke
The OP mentioned "musescore files" and "file properties" (probably a reference to File > Project Properties), so I'm pretty sure they were talking about scores (i.e. MSCX and MSCZ files).
But you're right: File Explorer can show metadata from some audio and video formats as well as image formats, so we should include such metadata in the export where possible. Feel free to raise an issue (i.e. feature request) for that on GitHub, if there isn't one already.