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    AdminDan Gravell (Founder and programmer, bliss) commented  · 

    I think this would fit well for defining a separate library for which different rulesets can be applied http://ideas.blisshq.com/forums/21939-bliss/suggestions/5490000-individual-rulesets-for-different-locations- .

    If you imagine a library is more than just a folder, rather it can be a subset of a folder (e.g. all compilations in a folder) and different rulesets applied to just that. For this idea, we could have all MP3s in a certain folder, with specific rules applied to them.

  2. 3 votes

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    AdminDan Gravell (Founder and programmer, bliss) commented  · 

    Great, any other date parse formats... please add them here.

  3. 13 votes

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    AdminDan Gravell (Founder and programmer, bliss) commented  · 

    Merged in "select artist from alphabetical drop--down list" with comment "extremely inconvenient to page through 600 artists, a selection option would be great, just like for albums" - figured this meant it was the same as the album starts with filter.

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    AdminDan Gravell (Founder and programmer, bliss) commented  · 

    Thanks for this. There must be some sort of modification going on... can you see it in the Activity page?

  5. 5 votes

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    AdminDan Gravell (Founder and programmer, bliss) commented  · 

    The difficult bit with this is: how do we know when the year is different denoting different releases, or the year has just been incorrectly tagged? Heuristics I can think of:

    - Check online to see if there are known distinct releases
    - See if there's an overlap with track numbers... one album should be a subset of another
    - See if the files are in separate folders. But this should only work with other clues because we want to support files that are spread around a root folder.

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    AdminDan Gravell (Founder and programmer, bliss) commented  · 

    We already have the genre consolidation rule -> http://www.blisshq.com/tour/genre-consolidation.html also see capitalisation rules -> http://ideas.blisshq.com/forums/21939-bliss/suggestions/2345195-standardize-capitalization-of-tags-album-title-. What's the next thing that needs doing?

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    AdminDan Gravell (Founder and programmer, bliss) commented  · 

    We could do something about this, currently the behaviour is set up in lowest-common-denominator style. All file/folder naming rules for all platforms are obeyed at once. In this case, Windows does not like *s in file or folder names ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa365247(v=vs.85).aspx ) .

    We could also provide a way to control how the *s get changed, I suppose.

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    AdminDan Gravell (Founder and programmer, bliss) commented  · 

    It should've shown up automatically, however there is a 3-minute-ish delay to avoid bliss performing work when a CD is still being ripped. How long did you give it? Maybe some sort of "there are new files pending" alert should appear.

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    AdminDan Gravell (Founder and programmer, bliss) commented  · 

    bliss always scans as soon as you choose a new music library or change your settings.

    To change one artwork there are a few ways...

    1) On the album grid screen, click the pencil icon
    2) On an album detail page, click the "change art" link
    3) Change the album grid screen to the cover art alternatives page - see http://www.blisshq.com/music-library-management-blog/2012/01/24/new-release-20120119-cover-art-alternatives/

    We always offer refunds to people that haven't got value from bliss, so for this please get in touch so we can sort this out (best to email support@blisshq.com).

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    AdminDan Gravell (Founder and programmer, bliss) commented  · 

    @Bruno this idea would cover "if no discnumber" (just have it as an else clause) but you should start a new idea for equality matching if statements, e.g. "if DISCNUMBER=1"...

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    AdminDan Gravell (Founder and programmer, bliss) commented  · 

    Yep. Not sure whether the ? could just consume the following two groups:

    <discnumber>?|Disc <discnumber>|No discnumber|

    Means if there's a discnumber, use "Disc 1" or whatever, otherwise use "No discnumber".

    My concern is this is ambiguous as to whether the group is part of the conditional or not (groups are generic and can be used anywhere in a file org pattern), but it essentially works this way already for the 'true' part of the statement.

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    AdminDan Gravell (Founder and programmer, bliss) commented  · 

    I suppose another way of looking at it is that some people use iTunes as the hub of their music collection and the "gold" source of information. If you just use it as a convenience player or conduit for music to an iPhone I can see your point.

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    AdminDan Gravell (Founder and programmer, bliss) commented  · 

    Yes, the other trouble with that is that it doesn't necessarily provide a way to 'poke' iTunes to let it know the data has changed.

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    Thanks, looks like it'll have to be the COM API for Windows and AppleScript on OS X.

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    AdminDan Gravell (Founder and programmer, bliss) commented  · 

    Thanks Matt. That seems to update all the tracks already in the database. We possibly also need to add/remove tracks when they have been moved.

    One of the big challenges of this will be platform independence: how to hook into iTunes on both OS X and Windows. Plus, whether to support remote iTunes instances. I think initially it will be local only.

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    AdminDan Gravell (Founder and programmer, bliss) commented  · 

    So a simple 'Get Info' on an individual album didn't work?

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    @JFK - does it work on an individual album? What metadata are we talking about here?

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    Agree with this. It also applies to other music players, but I guess iTunes should be first given its popularity.

    Also see: http://bliss.uservoice.com/forums/21939-bliss/suggestions/1449569-auto-update-itunes-when-bliss-has-changed-an-album which relates to updating iTunes once bliss has changed something within the album, e.g. artwork, tags.

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    AdminDan Gravell (Founder and programmer, bliss) commented  · 

    I agree Paul - this is an old idea but I actually think it should have more prominence!

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    AdminDan Gravell (Founder and programmer, bliss) commented  · 

    Do they all disappear? I think the reason this happens is that compliance changes after the cover art is changed, and so the next/previous albums change.

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    I thought of another way around this. You can use a conditional file organisation pattern. For instance, if your pattern is:

    <album_artist>/<album_name>/<tracknumber>-<track_name>

    You could change this to:

    <album_artist>/<album_name>/<tracknumber>?|<tracknumber>-|<track_name>

    So the track number is skipped if it is not present.

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    AdminDan Gravell (Founder and programmer, bliss) commented  · 

    Another idea on this is that it should hook into the auto tagging feature to look up/suggest the track number for you. Might save a few seconds...

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    This actually went through two early versions of functionality.

    Originally, the track number simply wasn't included in the path, so you'd get files like "-Track1.mp3". Depending on the token after the tracknumber, this could sometimes result in invalid filenames.

    Next, a common string like "no-track-number" was added. But I think I just found this ugly. Furthermore, in some cases people have a filename that is descriptive without tags, and this would destroy their organisation totally.

    So I just settled for alerting to the problem. I think I would prefer a solution where the tracks could be numbered (in this idea, manually). I think I shall need to start listing the tracks for each album, soon, anyway, so that should offer a UI to achieve this.

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    AdminDan Gravell (Founder and programmer, bliss) commented  · 

    Which version are you on? This was fixed on the Tags page in the latest version, 20130702

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    AdminDan Gravell (Founder and programmer, bliss) commented  · 

    Good suggestion. In general, the UI should be more "responsive", that is, the UI should size to fit the device. See also http://ideas.blisshq.com/forums/21939-bliss/suggestions/4191079-full-screen-waterfall-layout-use-the-entire-brows which is kind of the same thing but the other way, for larger screens.

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    AdminDan Gravell (Founder and programmer, bliss) commented  · 

    Also see http://ideas.blisshq.com/forums/21939-bliss/suggestions/2036767-update-reports-on-library-status-new-changes-via-e

    I would be interested in implementing such functionality so long as the benefits can be rolled back into the generally-available product.

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    AdminDan Gravell (Founder and programmer, bliss) commented  · 

    Yeah, there's specific code in there at the moment to not move child folders for albums. This is there to stop occasions where you have child folders with music files in them. An example might be if you have an artist/ folder with some odd tracks by the artist and then child folders of albums.

    What I could do is change that so if the folder is only one deep *and* there are no music files within, still perform the move.

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    Yep, that's right, this idea would be quite powerful I think.

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    For completeness' sake, I should add that another way of fixing where prefix paths are a problem would be to implement the multiple libraries feature: http://bliss.uservoice.com/forums/21939-bliss/suggestions/788647-the-ability-to-monitor-more-than-one-location-on-a

    That said, this may have other ramifications. E.g. if we have a duplicate music finder down the line. So this suggests both features would be useful.

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    AdminDan Gravell (Founder and programmer, bliss) commented  · 

    Where would the playlist be located? Also see http://ideas.blisshq.com/forums/21939-bliss/suggestions/1952369-dynamic-playlists which would allow your example (playlist of all artist's albums by year) to be continually re-generated.

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    AdminDan Gravell (Founder and programmer, bliss) commented  · 

    Interesting, I think I can see what is happening. If you have the filter set for "non compliant" and you change the art, the album may become "compliant". If there are no other compliant albums, you'll not have a next album to click through to...

    Could this be what is happening?

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    AdminDan Gravell (Founder and programmer, bliss) commented  · 

    Hmmm... do you mean the pencil icon?

    Is the cover art rule enabled?

    Can you create me a debug archive? "Help" then "Download debug archive" and send to support@blisshq.com ?

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