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database : showing trackname whith no id3 given

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motorbit:
hi,
i usualy do not give tracknames within the id tags, i just tag artist, album and genre.

now i wuld like to the rockbox database, sadly the database will only show "untagged" when i browse these files.
wuld it be possible to show the fliename instead as fallback-default?

Chronon:
In order to do what you are asking you would need to parse the path of the current file and try to extract a track name from it (this doesn't necessarily correspond to the file name) and store this in the database.

Is there a compelling reason to include this when you can easily scan your collection and include this information in the metadata?  It's probably rather unlikely for Rockbox to make a change to accommodate a single user's hesitance to include track names in their files' metadata.

nls:
I think guessing the title from the filename is a pretty bad idea, it will never work for everyone and what should we do about other missing tags, guess those too?
The best solution is to have correct tags and only use the tags as if we start this guessing game i think users will strart to expect more magic to make their broken tags work.

BruceHP:
You might try some of the Auto-Tagging features of Media Monkey.

motorbit:
well, in a perfect world all files wuld have perfect tags. but than, we all know what wuld happen to spammers in a perfect world.

no other player - be it software or portable audio - ever refused to show the filename when no tag was given.
to my feeling rockbox  behavior here is not verry userfriendly, it just screams to me:
do it as i please or P*SS OFF PRICK!

not to nice, i think.

also i can only belive you if you say that getting the filename instead of the tag is difficult... hard to belive, however, because in filemode rb is cabale of showing the trackname quite well ;)

still its nice to know that there is an alternative for these itunes bound ipod users, and overall i like this project. but as my players original firmware already fits me needs quite well,  i quess it will be the better choice for me.  it just garants me more freedom in how i handle my files.

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