AdminDan Gravell
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28 votes
An error occurred while saving the comment An error occurred while saving the comment Thanks for sharing that. This is really interesting - I've long thought about something we have lost in the move to sharing - the ability to share your curated music library.
I wonder if something similar would be useful to people. Fits in well with "The Big Idea" too - http://www.blisshq.com/music-library-management-blog/2015/09/08/big-idea/
An error occurred while saving the comment Sure, obviously it would also be good to know what can't be fixed in bliss, so I can make it so it can be fixed in bliss!
An error occurred while saving the comment I'm interested: why? I just want to understand the intent behind the idea.
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60 votes
An error occurred while saving the comment @frank that can also happen when iTunes assigns different artists to different tracks - iTunes itself sees different albums, and then if you have the "organize library" option enabled it may move the files around.
An error occurred while saving the comment @Thomas I'm sorry about that, but we're pretty resource constrained... obviously the more votes this gets, the more likely it is we'll polish this feature off.
An error occurred while saving the comment @Jim no real progress, but an obvious place to put this now is under "album integrity" with the duplicates rule.
An error occurred while saving the comment Consistency and completeness! https://www.blisshq.com/music-library-management-blog/2011/09/18/bliss-three-cs/
An error occurred while saving the comment Really like this idea, part of the three Cs - "completeness".
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36 votes
An error occurred while saving the comment Yeah, I think a manual fallback is best, I suppose it depends on how many cases of this there are. If there are relatively few, then manual fallback, otherwise some additional replacement rule.
An error occurred while saving the comment What tool can't read such a filename, out of interest?
An error occurred while saving the comment Agreed. Remember, though, that a lot of the use cases for bliss are working around companies not stepping up for various reasons ;-)
An error occurred while saving the comment They were asking for both - I was answering the special character case. We already support UTF-8. What do you mean by "OS prescribed symbols"? Are you saying there are characters from the non-Latin set that aren't permitted? If so, please send me a URL!
An error occurred while saving the comment Yeah, that could be another idea: specify replacement character for file system sensitive characters.
The list of disallowed characters in bliss is the one here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/windows/desktop/aa365247(v=vs.85).aspx
But I think this idea is about expanding this to cover other characters?
An error occurred while saving the comment What are the character replacements in ripit... does anyone know?
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1 vote
An error occurred while saving the comment In some cases, this could be default behaviour. Although in use cases where, say, you have one large untagged folder with many unsorted files going in different directions, you wouldn't want this (and it might not even be possible - which of the many folders would you move to?)
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1 vote
An error occurred while saving the comment Understood. Although, we could potentially make it default behaviour to simple move untagged files as we currently move non-music files like artwork. This would keep the files together.
Oh - I see you've already suggested this! https://bliss.uservoice.com/forums/21939/suggestions/46392649
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1 vote
An error occurred while saving the comment Love this idea - I often have test libraries I need to switch between.
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1 vote
An error occurred while saving the comment If you see "Unknown" this means bliss was unable to assess the compliance of the album given your rules. This is normally some sort of bug - please email us at support@blisshq.com and include a debug archive ("Help" > "Download debug archive") and which album is affected (or a few of them if many).
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1 vote
An error occurred while saving the comment Just a note, in an upcoming release we're adding more feedback to the fix-all activity to show how far the list of fixed items bliss has got.
An error occurred while saving the comment Something like this would be good.
Note though that a simple % indicator is hard because bliss works by immediately scanning what folders have been found, and also rescans changing folders. As a result, we don't know when the end will come.
We could change this to perform a scan, then only work on the results of the scan.
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1 vote
An error occurred while saving the comment Thanks. As a workaround you can search the blog using Google like this:
wav tagging site:blisshq.com/music-library-management-blog/
Replace "wav tagging" with whatever search you want.
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2 votes
An error occurred while saving the comment Sounds like a good idea!
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1 vote
An error occurred while saving the comment @William Yes, there's also https://hub.docker.com/r/romancin/bliss
An error occurred while saving the comment Grant, did you make this change to https://github.com/gshipley/bliss/blob/master/Dockerfile ?
An error occurred while saving the comment No, it's stored in ~/.java .
An error occurred while saving the comment I'll try and get Grant to comment, but licence information is held encrypted on the home folder for the user running bliss. If this could be mapped to the Docker host this could work across restarts.
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4 votes
An error occurred while saving the comment The same thing happens for me, but if you refresh the page you should see the count has increased.
An error occurred while saving the comment Thanks, currently all file movements are relative to the root music folder path. But what you're suggesting is valid (of course, in the case where music files are in different folders, this won't help bring them back together).
I clarified the title to describe the feature more generally.
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11 votes
An error occurred while saving the comment Note that this is now possible (although not very user friendly - you have to edit configuration files): https://www.blisshq.com/music-library-management-blog/2022/03/21/organising-compilations-with-rulesets/
An error occurred while saving the comment I merged the following idea from Bo Herrmannsen into this one:
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again not sure if it has been suggested but could be nice to have rules depending on what type of album i have....
All my artist albums have the artist in album artist while my complications have the album artist field empty
now for complications i want my folder structure: Album name/tracknumber. trackartist - tracktitle
while an bryan adams album should be: Bryan Adams - XXXX /tracknumber. track title
in itunes everything is set to complication so that it sorts the stuff right
---An error occurred while saving the comment Thanks for that. I actually split the auto tagging out into a separate idea: http://ideas.blisshq.com/forums/21939-bliss/suggestions/2290707-auto-tag-compilations . I hope this is ok.
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22 votes
An error occurred while saving the comment Note that this is now possible, although not user friendly as it hasn't been added to the UI: https://www.blisshq.com/music-library-management-blog/2022/03/21/organising-compilations-with-rulesets/
An error occurred while saving the comment Yep, thanks for that.
I'm actually thinking your case could work with http://ideas.blisshq.com/forums/21939-bliss/suggestions/788647-the-ability-to-monitor-more-than-one-location-on-a and the ability to define different rule sets for different directories.
An error occurred while saving the comment Sure, I'll add that to the list.
An error occurred while saving the comment Yeah - we could also add support for a separate pattern for compilations which seems to be common for a lot of people.
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16 votes
An error occurred while saving the comment @Yves That's an interesting development of "duplicates" because it implies some level of duplication is permitted.
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1 vote
An error occurred while saving the comment Yeah - that's one way. In extreme cases (I always think in extreme cases ;-) ) there are also artists who, canonically, capitalise their names in weird ways that a regex cannot predict. Therefor some form on online lookup would be required.
It's always a balance between canonically-correct and what-the-listener-wants...
An error occurred while saving the comment Nice - this needs to work alongside the capitalisation rules in some way.
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4 votes
An error occurred while saving the comment Yes, I've noticed this with a number of classical artists in particular.
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1 vote
An error occurred while saving the comment Ok, thanks for the explanation.
This sounds like a mixture of different things.
If we had rulesets (https://www.blisshq.com/music-library-management-blog/2017/08/01/ruleset-selecta/) - these are implemented for ignoring rules but the capability hasn't been made more general yet - you could have a rule for Christmas music (e.g. GENRE="Christmas") which had a different file path rule: "OFFLINE MUSIC/.../..."
In addition we would need a way of poking iTunes: https://ideas.blisshq.com/forums/21939-bliss/suggestions/1449569-auto-update-itunes-when-bliss-has-changed-an-album
An error occurred while saving the comment This is going to partly depend what you mean by "in and out of my library".
Does this mean it just doesn't appear in iTunes?
Or does it mean the files get relocated to a different folder?
So it depends on what music software (and hardware) you use.
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2 votes
An error occurred while saving the comment I have spoken to the developer of Daphile before, but it's really down to him opening up the platform...
In theory it should work without a huge amount of work.
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7 votes
An error occurred while saving the comment > tag every album that has the compilation tag with the same Various Artists title in the Album Artist tag.
This has been completed as part of: https://ideas.blisshq.com/forums/21939-bliss/suggestions/2739754-automatically-complete-album-artist
As implied by my comment:
> Inferring a COMPILATION tag if the artists are different
We could use the new local album tag sourcing as a way of doing the first part.
An error occurred while saving the comment I just added correctness checking for compilation. This works in a different way to other correctness checking, in that if the setting is absent, we always look at linked releases anyway. If the linked releases say that this is definitely a compilation, a fix is suggested to change it so.
This is a different solution to that laid out above, which is more of a "derived tag" solution, so I'll keep this open as it might have been that which people have voted for.
@frank This is mostly about getting an export of the library I think - missing tracks, multi disc releases and so on are dealt with elsewhere.