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workarounds for 'album artist' & 'disc number'

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NicolasP:

--- Quote from: Rincewind on December 31, 2006, 11:16:02 AM ---the workaround doesn't work for me now because I'm using linux and no foobar2000 anymore  :-[

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You can use foobar2000 under linux with wine. It works quite well (even plays music :)). I wouldn't recommend using it over a native audio player, but it will do all the file management tasks perfectly.

bascule:
I use a filename-based workaround for compilation artists:

All my compilation album tracks are tagged with the track artist, as I prefer that to 'Various', but the filenames have '_cmpl' at the end like '05-Your Body_cmpl.ogg' or '10-Phat Beach (I'll Be Ready) [Uniting Nations Remix]_cmpl.ogg'. They were batch-renamed using MP3Tag, so it took very little effort.

Using the database custom navigation file ability to filter on 'filename contains.../does not contain...', I can then differentiate between compilation and non-compilation album tracks without having to bastardise existing tags as below:


--- Code: ---"All single-artist albums" -> album ? filename !~ "_cmpl" -> title = "f_browse"
"All compilation albums" -> album ? filename ~ "_cmpl" -> title = "f_browse"
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Rincewind:

--- Quote from: NicolasP on December 31, 2006, 11:21:21 AM ---
--- Quote from: Rincewind on December 31, 2006, 11:16:02 AM ---the workaround doesn't work for me now because I'm using linux and no foobar2000 anymore  :-[

--- End quote ---
You can use foobar2000 under linux with wine. It works quite well (even plays music :)). I wouldn't recommend using it over a native audio player, but it will do all the file management tasks perfectly.

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I tried foobar2000 with wine but it didn't work very well in the short time I played with it. Right now I'm too lazy to organize my music differently (again), so I just leave it as it is.
Bascule, your workaround is quite nice, too. I didn't know that this is possible with the tagnavi config. Shouldn't take long and our tagnavi syntax is turing complete ;)

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