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Artist vs. album vs. track in WPS

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bogupod:
Where does the WPS get the artist, album, and track from? Reason I ask is that I restructured my music folders, and the new structure isn't appearing on the WPS screen. Note that I haven't yet initialized the database.

In the original structure, a "Classical" folder contained a "Bach - Brandenburg Concertos" folder, which in turn contained the tracks. In cabbiev2, this displayed as:

Bach - Brandenburg Concertos
Bach - Brandenburg Concertos
Track 01

I found the redundancy annoying and redid the folder structure to "Classical" > "Bach" > "Brandenburg Concertos" > tracks, expecting this to display as:

Bach
Brandenburg Concertos
Track 01

But instead it is now showing up as:

Bach - Brandenburg Concertos
Brandenburg Concertos
Track 01

What am I missing?

bluebrother:

--- Quote from: bogupod on May 06, 2010, 12:55:02 PM ---Where does the WPS get the artist, album, and track from?

--- End quote ---

From the file metadata. For mp3 this are id3 tags, vorbis uses vorbiscomments. A WPS can also use the filename and parts of the path and display that instead -- or as fallback if the file does not contain tags (or the appropriate tag is missing).

The exact sources used for displaying in the WPS depends on the WPS.

bogupod:
Excellent. Thank you.

Just discovered the WPS tag reference, which I suspect is what I want if I want to control exactly how things are displayed...

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