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database : showing trackname whith no id3 given

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Llorean:
Yes, and it does so very badly, and people have been saying this feature should be removed for a while. It's just simply that nobody has done it yet.

soap:
I would also assume that parsing out a number would be much more reliable than parsing out a specific string. 
I seems to me it would be easier to safely guess a track number from a release year than to guess a track title from an album title from an artist.

Llorean:
Well, one problem is that not all numbers are track numbers. Some files may be singles, with no track number in the filename *or* the tags, but the filename track number guessing code will simply grab numbers out of the filenames anyway to be used as track numbers.

The "ideal" solution might be a format string similar to those used by tag and rename programs, where you can type in something like "\[Artist]\[Album]\[tracknum] - [trackname].*" as a general format string, and for any missing tags, if they show up in that string that part of the path is used to fill in the tag. This way no "guessing" is necessary. The user explicitly tells the program how files will be named if they wish to use filename parts in the database.

7o9:
he's not asking to parse the filename though, he suggests using the entire filename as title if the id3 title field is empty/missing.

parsing the tags based on the filename would be next to impossible without a (configurable) format string like Llorean suggested.

Llorean:
Yes, but using the whole filename is a bad idea for people who *don't* want the filename used as the Title.

By having a format string, you make it opt-in instead of just forcing the behaviour on people.

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