Naming Scheme tutorial feedback

[EliC]

Re: Naming Scheme tutorial feedback

updating my naming scheme, hoping for a second eye on it to make sure there are no problems:

[IFVALUE]album artist,[MAXLENGTH]100,[album artist][],[IFCOMP]Various Artists[][IF!COMP][MAXLENGTH]100,[artist][][][]\[MAXLENGTH]100,[album][][IFMULTI] (Disc [disc])[] ([track_total]) ([cddb_id])\[track] - [MAXLENGTH]100,[title][]

[dbfan]

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Please explain how dBpoweramp should be sorting by genre?

[jazzyphile]

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Upgraded from Win XP to Win 7 Have 2500 flac files in 109 genres but dB will no longer sort by genre. Already have Coltrane in Jazz Modern and Jazz Avant Garde. dB now ignores that and creates another file under Coltrane (I already have Coltrane folder). Where should genre go in naming scheme. When I insert genre, it inserts at end of scheme. It ain't working!. Everything worked until I upgraded to Win 7.

[Alan77]

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Thanks for the suggestion, but album art is already in file and tags for all other tracks are fine. (This is a problem unique to WMP wav rips where WMP starts writing the first track before the album info has been downloaded.) If I can't limit the tagging by file name to the first track, I'll simply rewrite all of the tags which is what I'm trying to avoid because there could be issues that I can't anticipate.

[dvdr]

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Why don't you just download mp3tag, load each album, and do a tag query on amazon or freedb from there, just type in the name of the album, tags and albumart wil be assigned from the software...

[Alan77]

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My simple scheme is: artist\album\track title based on a file and directory structure like this: M:\Music\Art Pepper\Straight Life\01 Surf Ride

I am trying to tag from file names only the missing tags on the first track on some albums (resulting from originally ripping to WAV files with WMP). All of the later tracks are fine and do not need to be changed. For the tracks I want to change, the title tag in my ALAC files (converted from WAV) always reads "Track 1" rather than the actual name. On those tracks the artist, album and track are also missing (i.e., they read "Unknown Album").

I have tried both of the following without success. Any assistance would be appreciated.

[IFEQUALS]title,Track 1,[artist][]\[IFEQUALS]title,Track 1,[album][]\[IFEQUALS]title,Track 1,[track][]\[IFEQUALS]title,Track 1, [title][]

[IFVALUE]title,Track 1,[artist][]\[IFVALUE]title,Track 1,[album][]\[IFVALUE]title,Track 1,[track][]\ [IFVALUE]title,Track 1, [title][]

Alan

[Spoon-]

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Try [tag]artistsort[]

[planalp]

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Hi, here is my current naming Scheme:

[IFVALUE]album artist,[album artist],[IFCOMP]VA[][]__[album]\[IFVALUE]album artist,[album artist],[IFCOMP]VA[][]__[album]__[IFMULTI]CD[disc]-[disc_total]_[][track]-[track_total][IFCOMP]__[artist][]__[title]

it generated for example:

D:\Music\Ablaye_Cissoko__Amanké_Dionti\Ablaye_Cis soko__Amanké_Dionti__01-07__Kana_Maloundi.flac

But I would like the folders named in a sorting order; you gave code to change The Beetles into Beetles, The for example, but this is not general; here, I would like

D:\Music\Cissoko,_Ablaye__Amanké_Dionti\Cissoko,_ Ablaye__Amanké_Dionti__01-07__Kana_Maloundi.flac

I would therefore like to request to have available [album artist sort], [artist sort], and [album sort] as additional metadata sources for the naming... or is there a way to do this? Before ripping I always check for these tags and create them if needed.

Very good reason for this, which is I want to have my disc hierarchy of songs match the way the music is physically sorted on the shelf, as closely as possible.

Thank you!
Roy Planalp
registered user

[DVDYMBGC]

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Awesome, thanks!

[Spoon-]

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Sorry you are right, origpath does not have the drive letter, I will put a request in for [origdrive] for next beta

[DVDYMBGC]

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I am attempting to use [SETLEN]1,,,[origpath][]\[discunique]\[IFVALUE]album artist,[album artist],[IFCOMP]Various Artists[][IF!COMP][artist][][]\[album]\[track] - [title]
It does not seem to create a folder based on the source. Am I missing something?

[Spoon-]

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[SETLEN]1,,,[origpath][]

[DVDYMBGC]

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Is there any support to have it create a folder based on which drive it came from? I'd like to be able to set up multiple machines and run different projects on each. If not, this would be immensely helpful in future versions!

Thanks!

[Spoon-]

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Just an implementation anomaly.

[BrodyBoy]

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I'm trying to get a grasp on when tag names used in naming schemes should be bracketed, and when they shouldn't. In just about every case, they're variables that return the actual tags, i.e., ARTIST and [ARTIST] both return whatever is in the "artist" field. (The exception being IFVALUE, which doesn't return the actual tag data, but rather, just a yes or no on whether the field has data.)

So, considering this example, which renames "The Artist" to "Artist, The":

[IFEQUALS]artist,The [DEL]1,4,[artist][],[TRIM][DEL]1,4,[artist][], The[][]

Why is "artist" as the [IFEQUALS] target not bracketed, while "artist" as the [DEL] target is ? In both cases, they represent a variable that returns the contents of the artist tag in exactly the same way.

I'd like to understand the pattern, rather than just know a case or two, so I can apply it correctly whenever I need to.