Multiple (album) artists and file naming

[Dat Ei]

Re: Multiple (album) artists and file naming

Hey mville,

thanks for your input. I didn't know "_COMMA_" at all and I didn't read anything about it on the help pages. I will give it a try!


Dat Ei

[mville]

Re: Multiple (album) artists and file naming

another possibility is to use the function "[tags]<element>,delimiter[]" to embed multiples separated by a delimiter (just a single character). I.e.:

[IFVALUE]album artist,[tags]album artist,-[],[IFCOMP]Compilations[][IF!COMP][artist][][]\[album]\[IFMULTI][disc]-[][track] [title]

This will embed all album artists into the directory name, but:
a) they can only be separated by a single character (not very comfortable to read, i.e. in a file explorer)
b) you can't use a comma as delimiter
I would prefer a directory naming like "artist1, artist2[, ...]" with albums artists seprated by a comma and a following space.

Any tipps how I can achieve this naming convention just within CD Ripper? With just one step?

[tags]artist,_COMMA_ [] will give you artist1, artist2, artist3 etc.

2.) Filepath and naming in Batch converter

The same problem like the one above occurs in the Batch converter too. Maybe there is a handy solution for 1.) but will it work for the Batch converter too? While the possibility to manage a character replacement table for the file naming exists in CD Ripper, this possibilty is missing in Batch converter. Batch converter uses its own standard replacement. So any workaround using a special character for problem 1.) which will be replaced by ", " from an users character replacement table, will not work for the Batch convert.

Any ideas to solve that problem within Batch converter?

you can also try [tags]artist,_COMMA_ [] in Batch Converter

... note the space after _COMMA_

... for album artist to be returned, use [tags]album artist,_COMMA_ []

[Dat Ei]

Hey there,

as we all know dBpa uses "; " as delimiter for multiple tags like "artist" or "album artist" to separate multiple artists and album artists. So to my understanding it is a good practice to review your metadata and take care, that all the artists and album artists are separated by "; ", before you rip your CD.

But I have some problems with the next steps and their configuration:


1.) Filepath and naming in CD Ripper

If one uses a naming like:

[IFVALUE]album artist,[album artist],[IFCOMP]Compilations[][IF!COMP][artist][][]\[album]\[IFMULTI][disc]-[][track] [title]

only the first album artist will find his way into the directory name, which is not very satisfying in my eyes.


A another possibility is to use the function "[tags]<element>,delimiter[]" to embed multiples separated by a delimiter (just a single character). I.e.:

[IFVALUE]album artist,[tags]album artist,-[],[IFCOMP]Compilations[][IF!COMP][artist][][]\[album]\[IFMULTI][disc]-[][track] [title]

This will embed all album artists into the directory name, but:

a) they can only be separated by a single character (not very comfortable to read, i.e. in a file explorer)
b) you can't use a comma as delimiter

I would prefer a directory naming like "artist1, artist2[, ...]" with albums artists seprated by a comma and a following space.


Any tipps how I can achieve this naming convention just within CD Ripper? With just one step?



2.) Filepath and naming in Batch converter

The same problem like the one above occurs in the Batch converter too. Maybe there is a handy solution for 1.) but will it work for the Batch converter too? While the possibility to manage a character replacement table for the file naming exists in CD Ripper, this possibilty is missing in Batch converter. Batch converter uses its own standard replacement. So any workaround using a special character for problem 1.) which will be replaced by ", " from an users character replacement table, will not work for the Batch convert.

Any ideas to solve that problem within Batch converter?



I know that my problems are solvable if I use mp3tag (like garym would recommend) and accept a process with several steps. But I would like to see a short, elegant way to handle these problems within the dBpa world. Maybe an enhancement of the tags function allowing not only a single character but a string (even with commas inside) would help a lot.

I hope my problem is not to user specific, I did not bore you with my long posting and I didn't not bother you with my poor englsih.


Dat Ei