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chileboy:
Without going into all the details right now of all the things I have tried in experimenting with this, can anyone see why the following does not work?


--- Code: ---%format "fmt_custom_title"       "%d.%02d. %s %s - %02d:%02d" discnum tracknum artist title Lm Ls

--- End code ---

When I use that line, "fmt_custom_title" is empty (and using no other definitions for "fmt_custom_title").

Simply removing one %s  and "artist" works fine.

What am I missing?

chileboy:
Ok, as an experiment I deleted tagnavi_custom.config.  Then I did nothing to the default tagnavi except I changed:


--- Code: ---%format "fmt_title"       "%d.%02d. %s - %02d:%02d" discnum tracknum title Lm Ls ? discnum > "0"

--- End code ---

to


--- Code: ---%format "fmt_title"       "%d.%02d. %s - %s - %02d:%02d" discnum tracknum artist title Lm Ls ? discnum > "0"

--- End code ---

and, again, I get no titles whatsoever.

From everything I have read here, that should work just fine.

And, again, what am I missing?

chileboy:
Ok, I continued to experiment while hoping for some input, and I believe the issue is that a "format" line will accept a maximum of 5 modifiers.  So while


--- Code: ---%format "fmt_custom_title"       "%d.%02d. %s - %s" discnum tracknum artist title

--- End code ---

will work,


--- Code: ---%format "fmt_custom_title"       "%d.%02d. %s - %s - %02d:%02d" discnum tracknum artist title Lm Ls

--- End code ---

will not.

I know the max modifiers is 5 because I also tried removing only the last %02d and corresponding Ls, and that also worked, although obviously not useful.

Not a big deal, I don't really need to see MM:SS in the menu.

I also determined that you can't access the appended "_cmpl" in the filename on a format line, so for now I am using albumartist ~ "Various Artists" as my condition, until I can hopefully find some way to access the compilation tag.

chileboy:
Reading through a lot of posts, I realized that bascule simply appends "_cmpl" to filenames that need to be flagged as "Compilation".  In my ignorance, when I read his tagnavi_custom post, I believed the system was itself internally "appending" that tag to the filename it was passing. :-[

Bascule's is a reasonable workaround, but I am curious as to why the "Compilation" tag itself does not seem to be accessible.  I searched quite a bit in the forums and wikis, and it' entirely possible I'm missing something - but is there some reason it is not a usable tag, and that it doesn't seem to be a (common) request?  Is it a non-standard tag, and therefore one of those things that "will never be supported"?

torne:
The database only indexes a fixed set of tags; this is unrelated to whether Rockbox can read/display any particular tag. Changing which tags are indexed requires code changes, and produces a new database index file for every tag indexed; this takes up more disk space (and more RAM if you have load to ram enabled).

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