Searching by Metadata

Rugerfred_84's icon

Hi. Is it possible to read audio files from a folder, chossing wich one to open using metadatas?
Example: let's say I want to choose files in real-time, from a folder where I have 30 sounds tagged with metadata as "tom", 24 sounds tagged as "kick" and 53 sounds tagged as "snare".

Anyone can help me?

pdelges's icon

Did you check the metatag 3rd party external?

Rugerfred_84's icon

Thanks for your advice, Pdelges. I tried it, but it doesn't seem to work properly.
It keeps giving me the message: "Error 193 loading external metatag".
I also tried with the vb.metatag object, by Volker Böhm (https://vboehm.net/downloads/) . But it doesn't seem to work properly on my PC. I only got the message: "newobj: vb.metatag: No such object".
Any idea? I'm using Max8, on Windows10.

Rugerfred_84's icon

Ok, I solved with the metatag object you suggested me. But I saw it only works with audio file.
Now I solved with audio files, but I need something to do the same with images.
But I didn't find anything useful... Still searching.
Any Idea?

Lucy McNair's icon

Hi Ruger fred,
I'm wondering if you could share your process for accessing audio metatags.
I'm interested in doing just that.
Thanks,
D.