AdminDan Gravell
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This is quite an interesting one; I could get philosophical! In my opinion, a single is still part of a 'release' - that of the single. To me, the 'album' tag is misnamed, it should be 'release'. Therefore, in these occasions the single file should be tagged after the single release from which it came. In the case of CD, cassette or vinyl singles you will also have B sides on the same release.
But, of course, it's up to you how to organise your own collection. How would being able to designate tracks as part of an album help? Would you like the album's cover art adopted?
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If the source of the art is Google that's a problem... It's against the ToS of the Google API to automatically query and use that art.
I don't quite understand what you mean by "the difference is that right now there's NO artwork - I'd rather have some with the wrong artwork until I've reviewd them.". Do you mean that the automatic scan is not finding anything so you'd rather take your chances whatever would be found by the manual scan? If so, see above... it's likely that it's Google that's finding the ones under the manual scan.
Have you tried: http://www.blisshq.com/music-library-management-blog/2012/01/24/new-release-20120119-cover-art-alternatives/ ?
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An error occurred while saving the comment Thanks Mark. That's a good point about the UI not scaling... something that will have to be addressed as more tokens are added.
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An error occurred while saving the comment I really like this idea. I would remove the top level 'tags' item, and instead within albums, artists etc have an 'advanced' view which used the general filter criteria currently applied. It's a bit like a file explorer's grid/details view (see http://ideas.blisshq.com/forums/21939-bliss/suggestions/1859381-add-a-table-details-overview-in-addition-to-the-g )
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An error occurred while saving the comment Yeah, you're right, FreeDB has an enormous amount of data. Trouble is it's lower quality (IMO) than MusicBrainz. That said, I think by passing it through bliss's 'pipelines' of processing (e.g. changing the genres, changing the capitalisation) we may be able to improve the quality.
An error occurred while saving the comment Ok so more like a general tag correction/completion feature for existing albums?
An error occurred while saving the comment Thanks Bo. bliss already auto populates the year and genre information using the MusicBrainz and Wikipedia databases. See http://www.blisshq.com/music-library-management-blog/2010/11/28/mp3-tagging-software-new-release-20101120/ . Are there improvements to this you'd want to see?
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An error occurred while saving the comment Thanks Pär. Sounds useful. Maybe it could be an extension of http://ideas.blisshq.com/forums/21939-bliss/suggestions/2387358-automatically-rename-genres , e.g. wildcard * -> Jazz
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An error occurred while saving the comment Yes, nice idea. The 2MB maximum size is a limitation right now.
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An error occurred while saving the comment Thanks Todd!
An error occurred while saving the comment Thanks for letting me know. I'll leave this open; theoretically this could be added.
Could you paste the entry in your service manager php file?
An error occurred while saving the comment Thanks. This looks fairly simple to do manually - it's documented here: http://info.vortexbox.org/tiki-index.php?page=servicemanager
Doing it automatically upon install might be a bit more scary. It would be easier if there was a separate conf file for these items that could just be appended to.
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An error occurred while saving the comment Nice idea. I was thinking about actually building in the Wikipedia content into the page, although clearly separating Web-sourced content from the content represented from your music files might be a challenge.
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An error occurred while saving the comment I edited the title to specify simply Musepack support. It's easier to track these ideas if it's just one per page.
As you said, a workaround may be for bliss to identify music via filenames. For identifying music via file names, please vote for http://ideas.blisshq.com/forums/21939-bliss/suggestions/2458603-use-the-folder-and-file-name-to-help-identify-song
However, note that even when identifying music via file names, embedded art would not be a possibility for Musepack files until the Musepack support is written... folder.jpg style files should be a possibility though.
Hope this is ok...
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An error occurred while saving the comment Thanks Barry, I think I understand now. You are referring to the <album artist> token in the file organisation rule.
Yeah, you're right this is hard baked to use whatever bliss works out to be the album artist. In this case, either the album artist tag in your music files is "1987 Broadway Revival Cast" or all the track artist tags in each track are.
This is a little different because essentially you want to override what the <album artist> token evaluates to.
I wonder if your other idea - "custom toggle for cover art threshold specs" - actually hints at a solution? One way of approaching it may be a way of overriding compliance for a given album with different rules. In this case, you could reset the file org pattern just for this album.
An error occurred while saving the comment Barry, there's no rule in bliss that checks album artist. When you say bliss is assessing the compliance of the album artist, what do you mean exactly? I would think something else for which you have a rule enabled is non-compliant, hence the current status.
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An error occurred while saving the comment Oh yeah - compliance would appear on all such screens. Ultimately, that's what bliss is about.
An error occurred while saving the comment A powerful way of doing this would be to add a tables view of albums (rather than the grid view), having a 'added' timestamp column and then ordering by any of the columns. That way you could also order by artist name, art size and whatever other columns existed.
I suppose an order by... option on the grid view is also possible, although you might not see the actual data you are ordering by.
It depends how important it is to retain the grid view when viewing latest additions.
BTW, you could also look at the activity view, although this would be mixed in with other activity. Adding a 'New album' activity and allowing the activity view to be filtered would be (yet) another way of achieving this.
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4 votes
An error occurred while saving the comment But was the 'album' split into several albums by artist? I think this could be the only way this would happen.
bliss should group files with the same album name but different track artist if they are in the same folder.
The reason I'm concentrating on the identification of the album is because this forms the basis of the lookup for cover art. If the album/artist name is wrong/inaccurate, you're much more likely to get a bad match.
An error occurred while saving the comment Can you tell me a little more about the albums... what was the album and artist name? Was it the same album split by artist?
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An error occurred while saving the comment That's a nice idea. The list of ID3 genre mappings are here: http://www.multimediasoft.com/amp3dj/help/index.html?amp3dj_00003e.htm
The rule could be 'enforce textual genres' or 'enforce numeric genres'.
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An error occurred while saving the comment Yeah, agree this needs doing. Adding arbitrary tag columns. Right now the workaround is to copy a file with the required tag into that folder!
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An error occurred while saving the comment Some possible workarounds:
Restart bliss. Log into the VB using SSH and issue a restart command: service bliss restart and press enter.
An alternative is to restart the VB itself.
Finally, you could upgrade bliss, which performs the act of starting/restart bliss anyway. Press the 'install' button on the bliss packages page.
In terms of fixing the problem so it doesn't occur, I have seen this before and is caused where the stylesheet, for some reason, isn't downloaded.
Get in touch via email if you need to provide more in-depth debugging information: http://www.blisshq.com/contact.html
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An error occurred while saving the comment Yep, assume you posted http://ideas.blisshq.com/forums/21939-bliss/suggestions/2719682-the-condition-should-have-an-else-option- ? Thanks for posting that. I understand your use case and this seems like a valid feature.
An error occurred while saving the comment I am adding a new conditional token that, while it does not allow string comparisons as in your example, does check whether a preceeding token evaluates to some string, and if so uses a subsequent token.
See http://ideas.blisshq.com/forums/21939-bliss/suggestions/1336695-add-cdnumber-to-custom-file-folder-template for more.
An error occurred while saving the comment Sorry for not being clear Mark. The 'selector' is an idea for bliss, it isn't part of the product yet. You're right, essentially the only selector right now is that which selects all files in a ancestor folder.
There is a nasty workaround of course: if you have the compilations in a separate parent folder you could point bliss at that with different rules. However, your library as-is may not be set up for this, or make the workaround too much effort.
An error occurred while saving the comment Not sure I understand what you mean by "How does bliss get these various artist (or soundtrack) albums into the required library location".
Do you mean how does it recognise compilations? This would be by a combination of things: common compilation album artist names, varying track artist names with the same album name (in the same folder), and the compilation tag.
Or are you saying the album is in a different location originally? Maybe I didn't understand the full scope of your MM script.
Regarding taking the first n characters, there is a token in bliss called the group token which does what you are doing in your example - http://www.blisshq.com/music-library-management-blog/2011/04/12/new-release-20110407-wikipedia-album-art-directory-grouping-vortexbox-ripping/ . Does that work for you?
An error occurred while saving the comment Thanks for this. Specifically, are you trying to achieve different file structures for compilation/ various artist albums? If so, should I merge this idea with http://ideas.blisshq.com/forums/21939-bliss/suggestions/2290349-compilation-specific-file-org-pattern ?
More generally, I see what you are doing with the if...then conditional statements. However, if I may suggest an alternative...
In general I would like to avoid conditional statements - they are the source of bugs and are specific to file organisation.
An alternative is the 'selector, rule' pattern. In other words, select a set of albums, and apply a set of rules to them.
Look at it this way: currently the only selector available is the music library location. It's basically 'for all albums in c:\music, find album art, organise music files in this structure'.
Imagine if the selector could be overridden, e.g. 'for all albums in c:\music that are compilations, organise music files in this structure'. Maybe the selector could be nestable too.
The main advantage of this is that the same selector pattern can be used for every rule in the system. So you could also have compilation specific album art or genre rules. What do you think?
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An error occurred while saving the comment Hi, thanks for this. Are you referring to where a compilation has different track artists, splitting the album up?
Sounds similar to:
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An error occurred while saving the comment The Canadian Amazon store is actually already used. bliss doesn't use Amazon directly, rather it finds the Amazon ID via MusicBrainz. If either the album or the album's ASIN (the Amazon ID) isn't in MusicBrainz then that's another reason the album would not be found.
Which album is it? I need the name and artist name as found by bliss.
Thanks Bernard, this applies to all platforms so I removed the 'ReadyNAS' from the title.
The reason for this is mainly programming expedience. Different versions of bliss have different internal code, mapping the stored data to that code can be complicated when things are added or removed.
It's certainly possible to do though...