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If the audio file currently playing is /Music/Artist/Album/Title.mp3, then the following files will be searched for ...:.../Music/Artist/Title.ext...
Location of lyrics filesThe plugin checks the following directories for lyrics files. If no lyrics file is found andthe audio file is a .mp3, it also checks for SYLT and USLT tags in the id3v2 tags.1. The directory containing the audio file and its parent directories.2. For each of the above directories, the plugin searches for a subdirectory named “Lyrics”.3. Finally, the plugin will search as above, but within a directory called “/Lyrics”.The name of this directory can be customized, see below.If the audio file currently playing is /Music/Artist/Album/Title.mp3, then the followingfiles will be searched for, in this order. .ext is one of the supported extensionsfrom the list above, and will be searched for in the same order as in that list./Music/Artist/Album/Title.ext/Music/Artist/Title.ext/Music/Title.ext/Title.ext/Music/Artist/Album/Lyrics/Title.ext/Music/Artist/Lyrics/Title.ext/Music/Lyrics/Title.ext/Lyrics/Title.ext/Lyrics/Musics/Artist/Album/Title.ext/Lyrics/Musics/Artist/Title.ext/Lyrics/Musics/Title.ext/Lyrics/Title.ext
What makes this a real world problem isn't that at least one user does this often or on a large scale but that many users have to do this - maybe not often or not on a large scale, but anyway have to.
And it's not the question of correct metadata, because metadata has and will always have errors - in real life, yes. It's the question of how to decrease the trouble because of incorrect metadata.
Where is it that you are getting this estimation of 'many users' from?
My count puts the amount of people who have ever seen this as an issue at precisely one, yourself.
I would posit that in most instances, in your stated use case of replacing a given low bitrate/quality album with a given high bitrate/quality album, that they would simply cut/copy and paste over the top of the original, which would leave any user generated files such as lyrics, bookmarks, playlists, album art etc. in place.
That's a bold statement. My metadata is certainly correct. I posit that this is the case for a great many of our user base.
relaxing the rules for lyric file detection in turn creating the possibility of naming collision (for example, self titled albums of which some artists have multiple) is not something I think is a valid solution.
As I stated in a prior post, I highly recommend MusicBrainz Picard for all metadata creation/editing/removal/etc.
Quote from: [Saint] on January 05, 2015, 04:21:43 PMWhere is it that you are getting this estimation of 'many users' from?That's simply. Do many users get their media collections from torrent trackers? Yes. Would many users like to update their media collections with higher quality ones if possible? Yes. Are there uploaders who doesn't take trouble to fill Lyrics tag? Yes. Does every uploader have his/her own opinion of the ideal torrent file structure? Yes.Summarizing all of the above gives the answer: many users (of those who bother about the lyrics, of course) should work somehow with their lyrics collections after updating their media collections.
Quote from: [Saint] on January 05, 2015, 04:21:43 PMMy count puts the amount of people who have ever seen this as an issue at precisely one, yourself.I'm just the one who took trouble to give the idea how to resolve the issue
Quote from: [Saint] on January 05, 2015, 04:21:43 PMI would posit that in most instances, in your stated use case of replacing a given low bitrate/quality album with a given high bitrate/quality album, that they would simply cut/copy and paste over the top of the original, which would leave any user generated files such as lyrics, bookmarks, playlists, album art etc. in place.Yes - provided that file names and directory structure are the same. Do I have to say that it's not very likely scenario in case of different uploaders?
Quote from: [Saint] on January 05, 2015, 04:21:43 PMThat's a bold statement. My metadata is certainly correct. I posit that this is the case for a great many of our user base.We're still saying about lyrics, aren't we? The main issue here is that's hard to say is lyrics correct or not. For example, lyrics printed in CD booklets is used to lack punctuation marks. In this case, what lyrics is correct - "official" without commas or "literate" with them? Who guarantees that you won't change your mind about this one day? Who guarantees that you won't find a typo in your metadata one day? The correct lyrics isn't a state, but a process.
Quote from: [Saint] on January 05, 2015, 04:21:43 PMAs I stated in a prior post, I highly recommend MusicBrainz Picard for all metadata creation/editing/removal/etc.I do know where to get the metadata. But I prefer not to change downloaded files. Why? Well, there is no reliable media. Backup is good, but it's much easier to backup corrected lyrics in txt files than a lot of music files the only difference of which from the original (downloaded) ones is corrected embedded metadata. We can consider torrent trackers as a kind of backup, can't we? If you use original torrent files and someday your HDD dies suddenly, all you have to do is to buy a new one and to download torrent again. But if there were changed files on that HDD you've got the problem. And anyway, even you have a backup, you have to process all files again in case of appearing the torrent with the higher quality files.
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