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roolku:

--- Quote from: Toxikator on January 27, 2007, 01:46:34 PM ---The idea is to save button presses ...

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Well that is what I am debating. Depending on how many albums you have you need to press cursor-down lots of times to reach the first album-less track in comparion to just entering the "folder" with a single right-click. If you don't have any albums than you can omit the album level all together.


--- Quote from: Toxikator on January 27, 2007, 01:46:34 PM ---... and to make things more logical.

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Maybe it is my personal view, but mixing tracks and albums on one level doesn't seem logical to me at all.


But regardless of personal preference I doubt it will get implemented as it can not easily be generalised. Assuming you have a structure:

artist -> year -> album -> title

and you have mp3s that have an artist, album, title tag, but no year tag. What do you want to appear when you enter artist? The album, the title? Having there in pace of year seems perfectly logical to me.

Or just make sure your mp3s are adequately tagged. :)

LinusN:

--- Quote from: roolku on January 27, 2007, 02:14:37 PM ---Or just make sure your mp3s are adequately tagged. :)

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Just curious, how would you suggest he tagged the tracks in question? Not all tracks in the world are from an album.

Llorean:
I personally name the album "Single" if it doesn't have one.

But I think the real problem is that it'd be hard to generalize what to do when a tag isn't present in a specific field. In some cases it might be preferred that the next level of the search be rendered, and the other it wouldn't. Though honestly, probably the only case you'd prefer to see the next level is if it's the "Track" level of the search.

bascule:
Now I see what you want :)

As roolku said previously...


--- Quote from: roolku on January 27, 2007, 01:28:39 PM ---Not possible. You can't have albums (or any other tags) on the same level as Songs.

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This not being possible, any solution is a compromise workaround of some sort...

If I were you, I would tag the orphan tracks with the album name you think they most fit with, so that they move into the appropriate album selection.

Alternatively, tag them all with an album name "unsorted" or similar

Toxikator:
If I were okay with having them in some folder why not just leave them as "untagged"?  ;D

BTW I'm on an iPod, so there is no "cursor down" button press.

It's just a logical thing for me. Some tracks are from albums, some tracks aren't. The ones that aren't shouldn't be foldered away like that.

It seems highly logical to me.

If you organize by Artist>Album>Track, and there is no "album", then the logical thing to do, IMO, is to have those songs organized as Artist>Track, rather than to generate an "untagged" label for them and stick them in that folder.

I don't obviously know enough about coding or the db structure in general but it seems like a relatively simple If-Then...

If ID3Tag:Album /= ""
Then
(whatever the commands are to make it display Artist>Album>Track)
ElseIf ID3Tag: Album = ""
Then
(Whatever the commands are to make it display Artist>Track)

There are probably more important things, though.

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