On 09/11/10 14:51, Eric Mesa wrote: > Hello Wonderful gPodder Devs and other Subscribers to the list, > > Yesterday moved from an iPod shuffle to a Sandisk Sanza Fuze. While > playing with the Sandisk, I realized that a large portion of my > podcasts (specifically the non-tech ones) don't have an album id3 tag > and thus all get lumped into unknown. I did a search on the gPodder > archives for id3 and didn't see anything on this specific topic. I'd > like to solve this issue which, I'm sure would be beneficial for other > users. > > First of all, has someone developed a script for this? Or is there some > kind of option in the advanced preferences option that I missed that > would deal with this? > > If not, I propose the following solution - have gPodder check the file > and if it doesn't have an album id3 tag - use the name of the podcast > (what displays in the left column of gPodder) as the album name. Of > course, this would add some processing time (especially for someone that > has a lot of podcasts) so it would definitely be advisable to make an > option. And of course there'd have to be a determination on what is the > best time to do it - immediately after d/l, before a transfer, etc > > -- > Eric Mesa > http://www.ericsbinaryworld.com
Great idea. This has been an itch I have wanted to scratch for some years but don't have the Python skills. A while ago I wrote a Perl script which fixes missing album names in the way you suggest, but I also added a regex matching capability so that I could generate album names based on the filename. This was for feeds that contain different podcast "streams". I also added an episode title modification facility so that I could ensure the episodes sorted correctly on my Samsung player. If I have several episodes to listen to I want them to play in the right order, and my player only seems to be able to sort them alphabetically. I also like to compress titles so an episode number or date is easily visible. I can see there being many types of parsing and restructuring that could be carried out. It could all get rather complex, but I think it's well worth doing. Dave -- David Morriss, Scotland, UK | [email protected] _______________________________________________ gpodder-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/gpodder-devel
