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An error occurred while saving the comment "Rescan for new and changed files" will make this easier - https://twitter.com/bliss_music/status/826827957666721792
However, note it won't be as fast as identifying an individual album to add - it still scans for updated files, as well as added ones. The chief advantage is that existing albums which haven't been updated won't be rescanned.
An error occurred while saving the comment Any new files added should be picked up a few minutes after they were added, automatically. This can depend on the filesystem and the operating systems involved. In this case, what OS is bliss running on?
Thinking about it, this may not work on OS X so well because it uses "fsevents" which, I believe, only notifies file updates that originate from the OS X machine itself. E.g. if you ripped a CD from the OS X machine to the NAS then bliss should pick this up. If you used another machine to rip the CD to the NAS it would not show up until rescan.
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An error occurred while saving the comment "Scum"???
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An error occurred while saving the comment Yep, two ways of doing this:
1) Sync with an online record of the release, use the canonical title and make sure the media are matched with the correct disc number applied
2) When there's no match online, do some text processing. We already do this when querying for cover art.
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An error occurred while saving the comment Really nice idea.
This might not help, but if your images aren't JPEGs, you could also use the image format rule to convert them, that would imply compression and would save a lot of space.
A lot of iTunes users end up with PNGs these days, it has become the default for some iTunes purchases.
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An error occurred while saving the comment Thanks Andrew.
Broadly speaking I'd rather the tool speak for itself and be self documenting; clearly there's more work to do.
To answer your questions, to maybe elicit ways we can make this more obvious...
> I didn't understand how it was scanning, what was being fixed automatically and what the numbers in the summary after scanning meant (had they been fixed? Did I need to still fix them all manually?)
Which summary do you mean?
> What is the "Inbox" for (I thought Bliss automatically fixed the things listed in there)?
As per the other idea, some fixes have to be manually confirmed. That's all the Inbox is for.
> Why can I only fix visible things in the Inbox a page at a time (why not one click to apply all fixes)?
Well, you could, I suppose... please click "Vote" for http://ideas.blisshq.com/forums/21939-bliss/suggestions/13059807-allow-once-click-fix-for-all-items-not-limited-t
> What do the different reports in "Activity" mean (why does it tell me a folder contains music, but it's going to ignore it)?
Is this on a Synology? It might be reporting @eaDir folders which have files with names that look like music files, but aren't.
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11 votes
An error occurred while saving the comment If you see non-covers being downloaded, please let me know... this is a bug (although it is probably down to bad data).
An error occurred while saving the comment LOL, you have OCD indeed...
An error occurred while saving the comment Very nice idea...
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An error occurred while saving the comment Excellent idea, thanks. I agree there's an awful lot of crud about, and maintaining a minimal tagging schema can be better for your sanity.
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11 votes
An error occurred while saving the comment Looks like I replied to your email anyway ;-) note the other suggested threads you might be interested in:
http://ideas.blisshq.com/forums/21939-bliss/suggestions/3758349-add-logic-to-conditionally-use-tags-in-filename
http://ideas.blisshq.com/forums/21939-bliss/suggestions/2313346-mediamonkey-like-renaming-optionsAn error occurred while saving the comment I've had a few requests for this via email, thanks for suggesting it here.
I'm assuming you mean "use" for the file organisation rule.
The challenge with this is that because bliss runs rules for an album as soon as it finds it, we don't know whether or not another album with a different disc number exists. But there has to be some solution...
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6 votes
An error occurred while saving the comment Yep, this would be nice!
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An error occurred while saving the comment It would be feasible; bliss is supposed to move certain files, but it doesn't move folders. Currently this is "opt in" on the part of bliss in the sense that I have added code to move certain files.
The trouble is that the destination folder may not be an album folder. If your destination folder is all the tracks for an artist, what should happen?
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2 votes
An error occurred while saving the comment It depends a bit.
If there are any images marked as the front cover then the first one of those will be picked.
Otherwise, it's just the first one in the list, for each file. So if each file has different artwork as the first in the list, you would end up with different artwork in each file.
If there are tracks without artwork, this is counted as missing art, and bliss will attempt to find compliant art in the album to use, e.g. from another file or from cover.jpg or whatever.
An error occurred while saving the comment There has been no further progress on this per se. Can I ask more questions?
1) If you use the single embedded artwork rule (https://www.blisshq.com/music-library-management-blog/2012/05/22/enforce-single-embedded-artwork/) is enabled then you'll only have one artwork per file and it will all be the same
2) Why do you want to do this?
3) Again, why? I'm trying to work out your workflow.
An error occurred while saving the comment Nice ideas. When it comes to it, I may have to split these up because they are fairly diverse ideas. But thanks anyway.
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4 votes
An error occurred while saving the comment You can now use ARTISTSORT using the tag_field token: https://www.blisshq.com/music-library-management-blog/2016/11/15/release-20161108/
E.g.
<tag_field:album_artist_sort>
<tag_field:artist_sort>Have you tried that?
I'm considering closing this actually - I think using the correct tags is the best way forward for this.
An error occurred while saving the comment Adam, the file organisation rule just works off the tags. So are you saying you already have tags that have the artist name without "The"? If so, it would just be a case of changing the tag that is used (e.g. adding support for ALBUMSORT tags).
An error occurred while saving the comment I think it would have to be an option. To some the canonical name (in this case, The Beatles), is preferred. Question is, should this be a global option affecting all rules? Or just for the file org rule... for instance should the "album artist" token be configurable?
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An error occurred while saving the comment Thanks.
Can you explain in more detail what you mean by an override?
An error occurred while saving the comment At the moment, I think bliss will move the files but the other files will be retained in the same place.
I think it should move the other images, doesn't it do that?
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An error occurred while saving the comment Nice idea. Currently the behaviour upon a full rescan is:
- Set all albums to "in progress"
- Work through each one (in parallel, five at a time)
- Each album changes to completed when assessedNow if bliss is stopped halfway through, some will remain "in progress".
When bliss is restarted, any existing "in progress" albums change to "unknown" with a message "Didn't complete assessment before bliss was paused. Press rescan to re-assess".
We need that to change, so that in progress albums are queued up again. I'm not sure this should be default behaviour though.
One option is to pass a parameter on the command line, so your scheduler (cron?) would call bliss with an argument to restart in progress items.
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3 votes
An error occurred while saving the comment Gotcha. Definitely something that could be done. I like to think of this as actually having different rulesets to which different rules are applied (rather than if... then logic). See
http://ideas.blisshq.com/forums/21939-bliss/suggestions/2313346-mediamonkey-like-renaming-options (my comment on October 17, 2011 (!))
http://ideas.blisshq.com/forums/21939-bliss/suggestions/5490000-individual-rulesets-for-different-locations- -
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An error occurred while saving the comment No, sorry. Nice idea though - maybe alongside the transcoding idea - http://ideas.blisshq.com/forums/21939-bliss/suggestions/2243878-automatic-mirroring-of-music-libraries-to-differen - except the files are just copied as-is rather than transcoding!
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An error occurred while saving the comment Yeah, I agree using file extension is too general in many cases, especially yours.
What you describe sounds like something I've referred to as "selectors" before - define selectors to apply a ruleset to. Selectors may include location, bit rate, genre, file format, anything!
An error occurred while saving the comment So you want to use the file organisation rule to organize by bit rate, sample rate or something else? What exactly is the differentiator?
This only works in some cases but https://www.blisshq.com/music-library-management-blog/2011/05/20/organize-music-file-extension/
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An error occurred while saving the comment I like this - would be easy to do using the new control we use for the consolidation rule: https://www.blisshq.com/music-library-management-blog/2016/08/18/release-20160818/
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3 votes
An error occurred while saving the comment Sorry, I mean if they are tagged as compilations...
An error occurred while saving the comment If you have tracks in the same folder with different track artists, and with an album artist (yes, this is a tag in its own right), bliss groups these into one album and gives them the album artist. If you edit the artist name in the album detail page (http://www.blisshq.com/music-library-management-blog/2012/06/19/changing-artist-and-album-name/), it changes the AA plus any matching track artists.
Is this not what you are seeing?
For (2), if you can mark these as compilations, bliss should group them as "Various", and then if the file org rule is running it should move them into the grouped folder. Can you try that?
Yep, I can definitely see the use case, being a LMS user myself and relying on "New Music" too... it does annoy me as well.