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lexicon:

--- Quote from: sammydee on March 26, 2007, 12:40:23 PM ---

I can't think of anything practical aside from mass renaming all album titles to yyyy - album but that's unweildy and it displays the year when all you want to see is the album title *sigh*.

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well, almost. You can give up on the database and use the filetree browser instead. Keep your albums in well-organized file system:

\Artist1\1995 - Album1A
\Artist1\1997 - Album1B
\Artist2\1963 - Album 2A
...etc

in other words, use "\artist\year - album\track# - tracktitle" to organize files

and you can keep your files tagged properly so at least they'll display correctly in the wps .

At least with the new menu system it is easier to switch between database and filetree view!

lexicon:

--- Quote ---\Artist1\1995 - Album1A
\Artist1\1997 - Album1B
\Artist2\1963 - Album 2A
...etc

in other words, use "\artist\year - album\track# - tracktitle" to organize files

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(actually, I have it like "artist - year - album\track# - track title", but same idea)

now, a new workaround idea:

 - use the Comment field. Use foobar or another scriptable/configurable/batch tagger to set every track's Comment field to "year - album"

 - set up tagcache to browse through artist-comment-track, and that way the "comment" will actually be "chronologically sorted" albums

I haven't tried it yet, but that should work...right?

bascule:
Yep, that would work.

jrt:

--- Quote from: bascule on March 26, 2007, 03:43:22 AM ---You can only use a %format string for formatting the title of a track, it cannot be used for formatting within the album hierarchy (if that makes sense?)

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Is this really correct?

Using:

%format "fmt_title"       "%s" title
%format "fmt_album"    "%s [YEAR]" album
#...
"Artist"   -> artist   -> album = "fmt_album" -> title = "fmt_title"

I get:

The Beatles > Revolver [YEAR] > Taxman

so it seems to work - a little bit, as if I use:

%format "fmt_title"       "%s" title
%format "fmt_album"    "%s [%d]" album year
#...
"Artist"   -> artist   -> album = "fmt_album" -> title = "fmt_title"

I get:

The Beatles > Revolver [-2] > Taxman

all the time, as if the value of year is invalid?!


  Jonas

bascule:
Interesting..

I can also get your The Beatles > Revolver [YEAR] > Taxman example to work, which surprised me, but I think it may be a bug more than a feature.

I am fairly certain that even that should not work.

I've also tried
%format "fmt_album"    "%s [%d]" album year
%format "fmt_album"    "%s [%s]" album artist
with no success.

If you think about it, it cannot work for many cases. What would you expect to see if, for example, your Revolver album tracks were tagged with different years. How could the code be expected to cope with that?

It's limited to formatting the title because you can assume that every display attribute has exactly one value, not many values.

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