AdminDan Gravell
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An error occurred while saving the comment Nice idea. I see two ways of doing this...
1) Add "sort by" in the Albums list and include a function to sort by date of bliss's last change to an album, possibly also with a further refinement to sort by date of cover change, file rename, genre rename etc
2) Add a filter to the Activity page to only show where a fix has been made (http://ideas.blisshq.com/forums/21939-bliss/suggestions/2358119-make-it-easier-to-see-what-has-been-fixed) and also allow that to be filtered by the type of change (this is already ordered by date).
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An error occurred while saving the comment You could use "Fix all visible" to at least make this a lot quicker - http://www.blisshq.com/music-library-management-blog/2015/06/02/new-release-20150522/
An error occurred while saving the comment Yeah, that's a nice idea Jacques... Could have it as a multi choice response - change to X, change all Y albums to X...
An error occurred while saving the comment There's no automatic genre re-assignment yet. Genre consolidation is a fairly new area of the product. The normal approach is to get it working reliably and accurately, and then automate it.
However, I can certainly look at doing this soon.
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An error occurred while saving the comment Hi - if you assign more memory to bliss then the maximum art size should also be raised. To increasing to 512MB - http://www.blisshq.com/support/faq/general/assign-more-memory.html
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An error occurred while saving the comment Where would you like to see this, on the album page?
What is the reason you need to open it in MP3Tag - there are lots of reasons I know, but I'd like bliss to cover them :)
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An error occurred while saving the comment Yes, nice idea. I'd like to add a per-album tags page too but a folder and multi sub folder filter also has its uses.
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An error occurred while saving the comment Hi Harry, could you send a debug archive to us as suggested at http://www.blisshq.com/support/reporting-problems.html ? That way we can see what is going in inside your installation. Thanks for posting!
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An error occurred while saving the comment I actually looked at this a while ago. There were two main issues I had with it at the time:
- Support for the back button. If the list is scrolled through to "Z" and that item is chosen, then 'back' is pressed, the list has to be fully loaded before scrolled through, and the delay tends to be a pain
- Memory use. We have to deal with arbitrarily sized music collections of 10s of 1000s of albums. How much browser memory would be used by scrolling through such a list?
Maybe frameworks have come on a bit in that time.
What is the main issue with the current pagination approach?
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An error occurred while saving the comment Nice idea, should be fairly easy to do.
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An error occurred while saving the comment I'm guessing then, you are copying files into your music library, then pressing "rescan"?
You shouldn't have to press rescan. It may take a short time, but the new files should show up in your music library, and only those files will be audited. If that doesn't work it's a bug. Also, the "Play" button needs to be pressed.
In some cases this might not work: e.g. on OS X, if you copy the files into the music library using a different computer it won't work. This is a limitation of the OS X file notification API.
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An error occurred while saving the comment It would be great to be able to specify more complex rules for allowing multiple pieces of artwork, while maintaining simplicity for the more common cases.
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An error occurred while saving the comment Something I've often considered!
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An error occurred while saving the comment Oh dear, that sounds bad! Can you send me a debug archive - "Help" then "Download debug archive" and name the album? Send it to support@blisshq.com . If it's too large I can supply a Dropbox folder to upload it to.
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An error occurred while saving the comment The UI in bliss is in a WAR file, it's just that bliss packages a web server inside it, rather than the other way around.
In theory it's probably possible, but I think would be a lot of effort.
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An error occurred while saving the comment Nice idea Craig. The mappings for "grouping" for specific tag formats, as used in Picard, can be seen here: http://picard.musicbrainz.org/docs/mappings/
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An error occurred while saving the comment Works for me! Can you describe your exact steps? Are cookies enabled?
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An error occurred while saving the comment I just wanted to add another thought that sprang to mind...
bliss, in theory, already has the ability to do this. The "album name" tag in music files doesn't really mean "album", it means "release", thus albums, EPs, singles etc are all covered. Thus, if the single name is used for album name as well as the track name then there's a chance bliss will find the artwork.
An error occurred while saving the comment Nice idea! What I'm not sure about is whether there's enough data out there to make this worth its effort. What's your feeling on this having done it manually from Discogs?
The other thing is, at least for embedding artwork, you may have to choose which you'd prefer: album or single artwork. Some file formats only support one piece of art.
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An error occurred while saving the comment Nice idea, might be technically challenging! How would you define duplicate, just by what it "looks" like?
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An error occurred while saving the comment Same goes for other tag fields of course...
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An error occurred while saving the comment Thanks, I edited the title...
An error occurred while saving the comment So I think you should vote for http://ideas.blisshq.com/forums/21939-bliss/suggestions/5746094-tag-correction-facility and add a comment about the heuristics to prefer older or "original" releases.
I'm surprised that doesn't have many votes. I think if it gains momentum it will be popular.
So shall we narrow this down to a way of ignoring albums depending on their title? E.g. specify a search string or regular expression to ignore albums?
An error occurred while saving the comment Ok, as with the other thread, I wonder if we should distil this to one overarching idea.
It feels like you need tag correction/import which follows certain heuristics - one of these being "prefer earlier releases".
I don't understand your last paragraph... sorry!
An error occurred while saving the comment "So in my opinion you have to start with no metadata. So what you got? Probably only, for example; Michael Jackson - Bad.mp3. So the first match should be to find the release year.
This should be the earliest date in relation with the artist name and track name. If the database is filled properly then it will come back with 1987 (same year as the Bad album).So now we have artist name, track and release year. This should be enough to find the album name. After this we have also the right genre (if filled in of course) and the right art."
The year is related to the release on which the track appears. I suppose you could say that if there's no album name it may refer to the year first recorded. But the point is that you wouldn't decide on an album name due to a year, because the year is determined by when the album was released!
I agree that a lot of the time only the earliest date for a particular release is of interest. Note there's also specific 'original release date' fields in ID3 (TORY/TDOR).
An error occurred while saving the comment Ok. You need to bear in mind that bliss is "release oriented" in that it concentrates on finding metadata for releases (albums, singles, EPs) rather than individual tracks. For instance, individual tracks can appear on many albums, so how do we know which album to assign it to?
We could of course introduce a "track oriented" approach, see:
http://ideas.blisshq.com/forums/21939-bliss/suggestions/1871581-handle-folders-containing-singles
http://ideas.blisshq.com/forums/21939-bliss/suggestions/2955833-find-artwork-for-singles-that-are-part-of-compilatAn error occurred while saving the comment Thanks for this, and thanks for the debug archive you sent separately. So you basically want to ignore certain albums? I wouldn't want to add a blanket ignore for all albums of a given name for all users!
Can you give some example of the album names you'd want ignored?
Note it is possible to ignore files and folders from the scan as per: http://www.blisshq.com/music-library-management-blog/2011/08/16/new-release-20110809/
Or do you mean the album name shouldn't be used in the query for artwork... it should only be track name?
Thanks for this. I think it might actually be a problem reading one of your files before the new artwork is added. Can you get in touch via support@blisshq.com so we can work out the root cause? We need to do a bit more digging first.