On Thu, 28 Dec 2006, snarlydwarf wrote:
> You can have your library as messed up and chaotic as you want. I pity
> the day you decide to fix album art or years on albums, though. Just
> which directory should cover.jpg be in?
OK. I'm getting drawn into this pitfall as well.
Years on albums I fixed a while ago. I wrote a script that 'exports' a
playlist to an MP3 CD. I did 'ls /music/pop/*joe_jackson*/*/*.mp3 > jj.m3u'
and fed this list to my script. It then makes a CD for an MP3
car-radio with the album names in the root directory, prepended by the
year. This way, I can listen to the whole discography of Joe Jackson
*chronologically* while driving. It includes the one or two songs that
are on albums with other performers.
Of course, I found some albums (for other artists and classical music)
that had no year.
Fixing (under linux) is easy:
. /u/bin/mp3_functions
for file in `find /music/ -name "*.mp3" -print`
do
year=`mp3_prttag "TYER" $file`
if [ $year = "(unknown)" ]
then
echo -n " : $file "
echo -n `mp3_prttag "TALB" $file`
echo " does NOT have a year tag"
fi
done
In other words, dear snarlydwarf, if one has the right tools there's
really no objection to having music stored in a 'chaotic' but
orthogonal way.
I know by now that your 'solution' works (for you) - you've made that
clear. I'm looking for other solutions that would help more people -
appearantly not you. The recurring 'Various Artists' debates show
there are a few more like me.
Cover.jpg? I don't know - I don't have any. Now, start bashing me for
not having cover art. I'd opt for having it as a tag anyways.
Fact remains: I asked for a solution and some people keep on beating a
dead horse. That includes you.
This will be my last post on the subject of library organization -
this thread is about something else: the addition of an
'variousArtistAreSplit' option.
> You would also need the Common Titles flag back, unless you really like
> seeing albums called "Greatest Hits" or whatever with a hundred tracks
> by different artists...
I already wrote in my first post that such behavior would be
acceptable to me.
Adriaan
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