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ChoPro metadata fields - sciurius - 05-27-2015
I have a ChoPro file "fiets.cho" that starts with
{t: Op Fietse}
{artist: Daniël Lohoes & Skik}
{key:C}
{capo:2}
{tempo:104}
{time:4/4}
I have checked "Use Text Fields During Song Creation".
When I import this file, I get a song titled "fiets" (after the file name). In the song view the title is "Op Fietse" (as it should be) and below it is the artist info.
However, when I edit this song, field "Title" shows "fiets" and none of the other metadata has been set.
What am I doing wrong?
MSPro version 1.1.3.
RE: ChoPro metadata fields - Zubersoft - 05-28-2015
Artist wasn't one of the fields that was being automatically populated. I've now updated the code to include that field. I also was not using the title in the chord pro file as the title for the song - that has been changed as well. There was also a bug where the fields were being set in the song but the UI on the fields tab was not updated.
Thanks for the help,
Mike
RE: ChoPro metadata fields - DTownSMR - 05-30-2015
Mike,
From the chordii site I'm not sure the spec is specific enough regarding whitespace ("Check: Is whitespace before/after the : allowed? Whitespace after the argument?") but I think it would be a good idea programming wise to be tolerant of whitespace in each of those cases. Before the colon, after the colon, and after the argument. Just a thought.
I didn't try before the colon because that just wasn't intuitive for me. I did notice however that after the colon is OK but after the argument is not.
RE: ChoPro metadata fields - sciurius - 05-30-2015
There's an old saying, attributed to Jon Postel: "Be liberal in what you accept, and conservative in what you produce."
The ChordPro reference implementation uses the C-library function strtok with ": " (colon + space) as delimeters. Therefore it accepts all of the following:
Code:
{columns 2}
{columns:2}
{columns: 2}
{columns : 2}
{ : columns ::: 2 : }This also means that
Code:
{title: My Song}specifies the title as "My Song" with no leading spaces.
RE: ChoPro metadata fields - Zubersoft - 05-30-2015
I've reworked the parsing to use a tokenizing approach similar to what you suggested Johan. That should make it a little more forgiving.
Thanks,
Mike