Some people organize files in a completely different way. I would suggest that this "feature" be optional, and only in effect if you have the metadata option "Guess album title based on filename" checkbox checked.
I really hate it when tags are written to my files by media players if all I am doing is importing and playing the songs. On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 1:40 AM, Mathias Dietrich <dietrichmath...@gmail.com > wrote: > Hi, > although it did not work in Amarok 2.7.1 and before, we now have the > following > behavior in Amarok-git, which is according to Matěj no bug and wanted: > > 1. Collect multiple songs in one folder > 2. Ensure that the songs have no album-tag > 3. Start Amarok and import the collection > > Result: > > Although I specifically removed the album-tag from my files, Amarok uses > the file > path and guesses an album for all the files within this directory. > > E.g.: /home/user/Musik/FLAC/Pop/1970/ > > -> creates the album "1970" > > Or /home/user/Musik/Acoustic/ > > -> creates the album "Acoustic" > > For additional examples please have a look at: https://bugs.kde.org/322185 > > As a power user, managing a large collection of songs, using Amarok. I > propose > to change this behavior before it gets released. > > > To my mind this behavior makes no sense at all. I know other users that are > the same opinion. My reasons are the following: > > 1. If a user removes the album-tag using a tagging software, he wants to > ensure that the track gets no album > > -> e.g.: I have a large collection of single songs from different albums, > like > always the best 3 songs of the album. Although I don't want hundreds of > albums > in my collection just because I have 1-3 songs of an album. So I remove the > album-tag. If I would wanted the all the albums in my collection, I would > simply keep the album-tag. > > -> Problem is, Amarok now starts guessing my albums according to my folder > structure and I have to delete all guessed albums again within Amarok :( > > 2. The "heuristic" to guess the album by file path is no good solution in > two > ways. > > Firstly, if I use a music player which is based and works with Tags, I just > want to it to be based on tags. I just want to add my collection and don't > necessary want to mess around with the file structure of my tracks. > > Secondly, the heuristic was broken in the past (<=2.7.1) and nobody wanted > to > have an album guessed by file path. Correct me if you find a feature > request for > this. > > At third, the heuristic in the moment is a bad solution: "take the folder > containing all the files". If I throw a lot of files (>1000) within a > folder, > like "my music". All this files get the album "my music". It's no good > solution > at all. > > > That is why I propose multiple solutions to improve situation: > > 1. Remove this behavior at all, if it was no feature request. If someone > removes the album-tag he does not want it. It's very unlikely that someone > listens to music that, unintentionally, contains no tags. > > OR: > > 2. Only guess something of no tags are available at all. This way it would > be > safe to assume that someone imported music without tags, because he does > not > know that tags exist, which is highly unlikely. > > > So what is your opinion regarding this issue, from the developers point of > view ? > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Amarok-devel mailing list > Amarok-devel@kde.org > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/amarok-devel >
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