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Recently added: when no tag was found, show the file name instead of <Untagged>

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Mido:
I don't tag my music and I don't want to because the way tags are handled is not uniform across devices/programs. And I never had to. I simply name my files by the "artist - name" pattern and that's all I need.
I don't need browsing by genre, artist, year or whatnot.

However "Recently added" list is convenient. I used it on every played I had. But in Rockbox every song on this list is <Untagged> for me.

My idea would be to show the file name when no tag is found.

"Recently added" feature relies on created/modified metadata so there is no real reason why it has to use ID3 tags to display the name.

saratoga:
The database can show file names, and looking at the tagnavi file, I think it is expected to:


--- Quote ---%format "fmt_title"       "%s - %02d:%02d (%s)" basename Lm Ls filename ? title == "<Untagged>"
--- End quote ---

So if the base name is <Untagged> replace that with the filename, but trying it now I don't think it actually works.

Bilgus:
The issue is that the <ALL TRACKS> <RANDOM> (+other builtins)

skip the tagnav formatter in favor of TAG_TITLE

Care to test?
https://gerrit.rockbox.org/r/c/rockbox/+/4247

Mido:

--- Quote from: Bilgus on February 25, 2022, 08:52:14 AM ---
Care to test?
https://gerrit.rockbox.org/r/c/rockbox/+/4247

--- End quote ---

I'd love to but I got my iPod 2 days ago and I'm totally green when it comes to Rockbox so I have no idea what am I supposed to do with that link :D

Bilgus:
This change should be available in the latest dev builds tomorrow

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