chroma;508694 Wrote:
I have a collection of collections used by other individuals and
software.
Forgive me, but this sounds illegal. Like copying friends music
collections and dont want to bother deleting duplicates! (I'm not saying
you are)
The usual scenario is that you use SC on your own
erland;511152 Wrote:
Doesn't the removed albums and tracks appear again when you use Music
Folder browsing ?
I thought the SBS scanner rescanned automatically when browsing a
folder with the browse Music Folder mechanism.
yes, which is why i want them removed at the presentation layer
chroma;511171 Wrote:
yes, which is why i want them removed at the presentation layer rather
than having to remove them entirely from the DB. now that I have a flag
set on each track that i don't want to appear in search or browse, that
should be easy, just need to find the right entry point.
I've provided the heuristic, the code, the driving use case.
Rather than telling me further that I don't know what I want or that I
am part of some 'bad joke', there are three reasonable options here:
1) provide a working model for the existing software which meets the
stated requirements
2)
chroma;511331 Wrote:
Lets get down to actually solving the problem.
Thanks
I guess you know that your OP set the tone for this thread. There is no
the problem - there is just your problem.
Please will someone tell Chroma how to patch in his code into his
installation (this will NEVER be a
chroma;508694 Wrote:
I declare a $250 starting bounty on getting this done.
...maybe you need to increase the bounty
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I'll match his $250.
-Chris
On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 1:57 PM, aubuti
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chroma;508694 Wrote:
I declare a $250 starting bounty on getting this done.
...maybe you need to increase the bounty
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i appreciate that some of you are trying to be helpful.
let me clarify the requirements again:
- the filesystem must remain unmodified. no symlinks. no changing whats
there. it is a correct set of collections of collections. it is
correctly tagged.
- users want to be able to use the browse
Doesn't the removed albums and tracks appear again when you use Music
Folder browsing ?
I thought the SBS scanner rescanned automatically when browsing a
folder with the browse Music Folder mechanism.
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You mentioned corrected tags, yet your music collection is anything
but correct. IMO, you're looking for a solution to be implemented
universally for a problem that is singular to your system that you
yourself have created.
You can, as suggested, fix your music collection. Much faster than a
chroma;509702 Wrote:
i think you guys are making this entirely too complicated...Or maybe we're
trying to think of a group of users (other than just you
and your house/apartment/dorm mates) who might need something like this.
Actually, it's not clear that they care about this much, so it may
But browse music folder is just that. it specially done to not read tags
or implement any intelligence. it's there so people can browse and use
untagged or badly tagged files ? anything but a simple file browser for
browse music folder will create a mess for countless other users ? you
browse to
chroma;509702 Wrote:
for example, the following query does 95% of what is required:
select C2.id, C2.title, C2.contributor, C2.year, SUM(tracks.filesize)
FROM albums as C1, albums as C2
JOIN tracks WHERE C1.title = C2.title AND C1.contributor =
C2.contributor AND (c1.year = c2.year
I would ask the question how does the system know that the multiple sets
are different except for the bit-rate or encoding? There are lots of
things that seem obvious but that when you try to code them become
absolutely horrendous.
Bearing in mind the SC deals in tracks and it is the tags and
So maybe the answer is to move the encoding and bitrate into the tags,
either as a separate tags or maybe just as one of the multiple genres.
If you've got everything sorted into directory trees, you could just
use an MP3Tags action to either add a tag (stupidly easy) or to add a
genre (slightly
i think you guys are making this entirely too complicated...
this is an album level, not a track level, function. the only
comparison i care about is at the album level. i'll take whatever art
and individual track versions exist with the album that is selected.
i require retention of browse
say you have a collective living situation. common recreation areas and
sound systems. squeezeboxes in each of them. people come in with their
own collections of stuff. there is a fair amount of overlap because they
have similar taste. each collection is very well groomed on its own. the
Are you talking about searching or browsing ?
Are the sub collections stable ? If they are you can just create your
collection by creating a directory that just contains links/shortcuts to
the albums you want to include.
Because the SBS scanner auto detects files on the disk sometimes, for
I do not understand why it is necessary for me to get five first-level
indistinguishable results if i have five copies (of various quality or
encoding method, or from multiple users libraries) of the same album in
my collection.
I want a basic heuristic on the presentation layer that says:
If
I don't understand why you have that many duplicates in the first place.
If you want the highest bit rate, just delete the rest (well move them
out of you music folder).
IMHO this is not a show stopper. There are many more important
searching / playlisting issues.
Dave
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I have a collection of collections used by other individuals and
software. They have organization which is important to retain for their
own reasons.
The place to clean them up is at the presentation level, or at the very
least at the scanner level.
I declare a $250 starting bounty on getting
I agree with you about the logic, but the commercial need for this must
be small. You need a third party developer, or maybe one of Erland's
plug ins might help, Custom Scan + Custom Browse.
Dave
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