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  • yevster

    • Jun 2023
    • 11

    Tiny FRs that can really help classical people.

    So most track titles in the classical music world are something like this:

    "Eine Alpensinfonie, op. 64: Sonnenaufgang"

    Typically, the thing before the ":" (or some other delimiter) is the work name, and the thing after is the movement name. The work name tags are easy enough to populate manually, but populating the movement names track by track really gets cumbersome. It sure would be great to be able to be map a substring after some delimiter to a tag. Some way of specifying "map everything after the rightmost ':' in the track title to Movement Name.

    Another feature that would be hugely helpful is (optionally) auto-numbering movements in a work. For any consecutive tracks with the same value of "Work", provide an option to auto-increment the movement tag. There are occasional cases where this wouldn't work (one movement spread into multiple tracks), but these are the exception not the rule.

    These seem pretty simple to implement. There may be a way of doing these with an external script, but that seems more cumbersome than even populating the movement names and numbers manually.
  • BrodyBoy
    dBpoweramp Guru

    • Sep 2011
    • 777

    #2
    There is no consistency to classical music track naming in the online databases. You're right that most (well...many) track titles are "something like" your example, but rarely exactly like it. The information included & the punctuation used vary wildly. Algorithms to tease out info, as you suggest, require strict consistency in delimiters and the order (and presence) of information. You'd have to spend just as much time fixing the titles pre-rip as you're already spending filling in those fields manually. (Your example actually illustrates my point- Eine Alpensinfonie is an anomaly with nearly two dozen unnumbered sections that are performed as a single continuous movement.)

    The good news is that you can fix all this (and extract specific tag fields from the title, if need be) in a good metadata editor after ripping.

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    • yevster

      • Jun 2023
      • 11

      #3
      I'm not asserting that anything is ever consistent. That's why the feature I'm proposing allows the user to specify a custom delimiter for each CD. DBPowerAmp is supposed to be the good metadata editor. We shouldn't need anything else.

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      • Spoon
        Administrator
        • Apr 2002
        • 44509

        #4
        We shall look at this
        Spoon
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