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database : showing trackname whith no id3 given
evilnick:
If the filenames are what you want as a title, pretty much all tagging programs have the option to set filename to the Title tag.
Of course, as Rockbox is open-source, you're also free to add the code that will fallback to the filename if there's no track tag.
I have the opinion that well-tagged files are worth maintaining, out of interest what is holding you back from tagging them?
To say that the iPod firmware grants you more freedom is both deliberately inflammatory. And utterly wrong.
linuxstb:
--- Quote from: motorbit on August 17, 2009, 09:09:45 AM ---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.
--- End quote ---
You mentioned in IRC that the reason you deleted the track name from your tags was to work around a bug in the Cowon D2 firmware where it couldn't sort more than 30 tracks if the id3 track tags were present. If that's the original firmware you're referring to, then I'm not sure why that's giving you more freedom...
As was said in IRC, guessing tags based on filenames may be helpful for you, but for lots of other people will just show wrong information.
motorbit:
linuxstb:
thats only paticular true: i deleted the tracknumbers becaus of that bug, not the tracktitles.
i never used id tags for the tracktitle because of my personal way to sort my traks. also, i want to see what a filetype it is, and i dont know any util that fits in the extension into the tag as well, so this wuld be a lot of manual work.
because i want all my files to fit into my personal order, i usualy have to modify the filename with a batchrenamer anyway. so copy that name into the id-tag never had been necessary, because the filename already contained all the infos i needed.
last: it wuld require a third tool beside foobar and joe to maintain my files - a third tool i had to install and that wuld burden my os quite superfluidly. and i hate mediamonkey!
--- Quote ---guessing tags based on filenames may be helpful for you, but for lots of other people will just show wrong information.
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when used as fallback only when no tag is given, i can not see where this wuld lead to any misleading information. with files that contain "correct" tags, just nothing wuld change.
evilnick it looks like my english failed me : i did not wanted to say that ipod firmware grants freedom. i wanted to say the firmware of my own player is pretty good already.
--- Quote ---as Rockbox is open-source, you're also free to add the code
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if i culd do this on my own, i just had presented you the results and asked you to put it into your work ;) its not like i wuld not want to spend the time, its just: i suck in coding. my last code was a dos batch file.
Llorean:
Rockbox already uses filenames in the WPS if the WPS is designed to do so.
The database is a database of tags. Using something else there would be silly. If you want to browse by filenames, browse by filenames instead. Or fix your files as has been suggested.
Didgeridoohan:
Have you tried making your own tagnavi_custom file (as described here: http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/DataBase). Should make it possible to do what you want (there is a filename tag, but I don't know how well it works).
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