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Customizing playlist using tagnavi_custom.config
sammydee:
Well whether the files are mp3s or oggs the Year tag (when viewed through rockbox's own id3 info viewer) is displayed as yyyy.
Should it be displayed as yyyy-mm-dd to make it work properly?
I could try adding the following to the tagnavi.config file:
%format "fmt_title" "%04d - %s" year title
And seeing what I get. If it works for individual tracks, then it is a different problem. If it doesn't, it is a tagging format problem.
Sam
bascule:
* bascule pays attention this time
With what you wrote in your last comment, I finally realised what you were trying to do originally  :-\
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?)
What I thought you were trying to do (and for which your code was correct), was show the year and associated album for a specific track (which would work), but you were not displaying the track title, so it would have been even more confusing.
E.g.,
For browsing Artist > Album > Title
You can't have:
The Beatles > 1966-Revolver > Taxman
                    > Eleanor Rigby
                    > etc...
But you can have:
The Beatles > Revolver > Taxman (1966 - Revolver)
                > Eleanor Rigby (1966 - Revolver)
                > etc...
by using a format string like
%format "fmt_album" Â Â Â "%s (%04d - %s)" title year album
You could also set up tagnavi to browse by year, either:
Year > Artist > Album > Title
or
Artist > Year > Album > Title
--- Quote from: sammydee on March 25, 2007, 05:54:54 PM ---How does the "year" option work, if you select it for "album" (or"artist" for that matter)? Is it an average of the dates of all the tracks in a particular album?
--- End quote ---
You should have gathered by now that this question is not valid. Because Year tags are specific to and embedded within each individual track, Year just does not exist at Album or Artist level. When the Database is filtering through the hierarchy it is selecting tracks that match your selection. So if you had one track in an album missing the Artist tag, then it would never be displayed when browsing to that album via the Artist menu.
Please let me know how you get on... (or if I've just confused you more ;)
lexicon:
--- 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?)
--- End quote ---
...and that is too bad, because I've also really wanted to see the Album title displayed with its year (and -dream on, I know- sorted by year). Very useful when one has a band with an extensive, time-spanning discography... e.g. "let's listen to some early Floyd"
(and yes, thanks to the file tree browser that can typically be possible. But I'd rather be able to stay in the database for all interactions).
I'm not griping, just saying that I understand where the original poster is coming from... ;)
bascule:
I certainly empathise with the issue. Unfortunately, there's no easy workaround that is both powerful and flexible
You could set up an open query something like:
"Artist between years..." -> artist ? year >= "" & year album -> title = "fmt_title"
Which is powerful, but not flexible (always an artist and always between two specified years)
or lots of pre-defined filter choices:
Year>artist>album>title
artist>year>album>title
decade>artist>album>title (using a sub-menu for decade)
etc.
Which is more flexible, but normally needs a lot of scrolling to get what you want...
sammydee:
Ahh that makes sense to me now.
As lexicon said, I wanted to sort the albums by date.
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*.
I doubt that a feature like this will be coded anywhere in the near future, so I'll just have to live with it I guess :-\
Thanks for the help
Sam
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