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database : showing trackname whith no id3 given

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Chronon:

--- Quote from: motorbit on August 26, 2009, 12:17:19 PM ---i do not have a good reason not to use a tag for the filename.
i have however some weak reason:
*its redunant. filename and id3tag for filename are the same in my libary. this argument only apllys to me, i confess.

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Depending on your naming scheme this may be true about the majority of your metadata (album-artist, album, year, track number, track artist, etc.).  If this is a concern then why not just use a naming scheme that makes sense to you, strip all metadata from your files and use the file browser?

motorbit:
yeah: all other tags are needed to run a metadata based libary smooth :D
however, tracknumber is redunant too if filenames are starting with the tracknumbers. most of my files indeed do not tracknumbers.

artist, album etc can not be save-guessed by metadata libarys.

but this does just not take place for the filename: there will be always a filename, there is no guessing.
thats why im sayed lots of time : there wuld be no noticable sideeffect for files that contain "correct" metadata, and there wuld be no error-potential because there wuld be no "guessing" for this specific sub-metadata.

you all are right if you say "rb is acting according to the id3 standard".
you are right if you say "you can fix it so it works with rb"

but im pretty sure im right too:
there wuld be no side effect by allowing users (and me :D ) this little freedom.

evilnick:
There doesn't appear to be a compelling reason to change Rockbox to guess these values (Title and/or Track#) based on the filename for inclusion to the (tag) Database.

I do accept that in your specific case, it could make sense, but then again, if all your filenames are in a consistent format (Tracknumber - Title.Extension) then these could be used to generate the Track and Title tags anyway.


--- Quote ---there wuld be no side effect by allowing users (and me) this little freedom.
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The side effect of a developer's time taken to implement something that only you want would be seen as a bad thing.

Seriously, why not just update your library, and then this issue will go away?

motorbit:
now, if its only that no one found the time to do it, maby ill find some and you let it into rb?
also, its not like i wuld not want to spend time on it to do it on my own, just i can not do it allone. maby someone wuld feel more comfortable helping me out putting the code in?

ot:
im curious: more metadata, wuld this not mean longer database buildup time?
with 48 gigs of slow flash memory, there is some reason in having few metadata ;)

Llorean:
There would also be the side effect of showing files in lists where the user doesn't want them.

You leave tags off "because it would be redundant." Other people leave tags off because they don't want those tags to exist - pretending like they do is an error.

If you want "filename" to be the last level of your filter, just edit tagnavi.

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