POPM tag (popularimeter)

[gmacpro]

Hi all,

I am writing a Visual Basic program and I am extracting the tags from MP3s. I can get the title, album, bitrate etc but I can't get the POPM tag. Can someone help on the proper command?

I can get the full list of tags with this simple code and save it to a file:

exiftool a.mp3 > c:\a.txt

then I can open the file and get the popularimeter line but getting just the popm information would be my preferred method.

Thanks

[StarGeek]

Use the command in FAQ #3 to figure out the actual name of the tag, not the description (see FAQ #2).

Then your command would be this, replacing "TAG" with the name of the tag from above
exiftool -TAG a.mp3 > c:\a.txt

[gmacpro]

Thanks for the reply StarGeek but that doesn't work or I'm doing it wrong.

exiftool -popm a.mp3

reports nothing and

exiftool a.mp3

reports

...
Popularimeter                   : Windows Media Player 9 Series Rating=64 Count=0
...

Any other suggestions?

[gmacpro]

Got it - I was using the 'Tag ID' versus the 'Tag Name'

exiftool -Popularimeter a.mp3

reports

...
Popularimeter                   : Windows Media Player 9 Series Rating=64 Count=0
...

so I can live with that 

[StarGeek]

Got it - I was using the 'Tag ID' versus the 'Tag Name'

Which is why I pointed you to FAQ #3 so you could figure out the name.

so I can live with that 

I get the feeling what you want is the -s3 (-short3) option.