Re: [Banshee-List] Compilation - folder hyerarchy

[chaghaboo <marko niketic gmail com>]

Thanks Nicholas! This explains a lot. I was sure it was related to Banshee
rather then Gnome.
As I'm not experienced linux user can you, please explain me how to apply
this patch?
I see it's some file that should be edited but don't know where to find it.

Thanks


Nicholas Doyle wrote:
> 
> This is being discussed in gnome bug 563403.
> I'll attach my personal patch to get around this. It might be a bit
> hacky and maybe should be done better but it accomplishes what I want.
> 
> On Thu, 2009-01-22 at 23:36 -0800, chaghaboo wrote:
>> Banshee is better then ever and thus became my default and only
>> player, but I have one problem to sort out. I filled track and album
>> info for compilation albums according to user guide and it's great. In
>> Banshee's library I get nicely listed compilation albums instead of
>> individual artists within compilation. I'm sending you "banshee
>> compilation" screenshot so you can see if everything is filled
>> correctly.  File system organization for album within Banshee
>> preferences I set to "Album - Artist". But now I have a problem with
>> album folders on my hard drive. Instead of having one folder for one
>> compilation album with various artist within I get separate folder for
>> each artist of that compilation with one song within it. For example
>> instead of having "Blade II: The Soundtrack" folder with all artists
>> within I get folder for each artist, for example folder is: "Blade II:
>> The Soundtrack - Mos Deff and Massive Attack" and as many folders,
>> like that one, as there are artists on that compilation. I'm sending
>> you also "file system organization" screenshot to see if I made some
>> mistake there.  I probably can solve problem if I would in folder
>> hierarchy choose only "Album" but I want to have folders in Artist -
>> Album syntax. Thanks 
>> 
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> 
> diff -ur src.orig/Core/Banshee.Core/Banshee.Base/FileNamePattern.cs
> src/Core/Banshee.Core/Banshee.Base/FileNamePattern.cs
> --- src.orig/Core/Banshee.Core/Banshee.Base/FileNamePattern.cs	2008-08-04
> 14:50:36.000000000 -0300
> +++ src/Core/Banshee.Core/Banshee.Base/FileNamePattern.cs	2008-12-13
> 18:15:53.000000000 -0400
> @@ -88,6 +88,12 @@
>                  delegate (ITrackInfo t, object r) {
>                      return Escape (t == null ? (string)r :
> t.DisplayArtistName);
>              });
> +
> +            AddConversion ("album_artist", Catalog.GetString ("Album
> Artist"),
> +                delegate (ITrackInfo t, object r) {
> +                    TrackInfo ti = t as TrackInfo;
> +                    return Escape (ti == null ? (string)r :
> ti.AlbumArtist);
> +            });
>                          
>              AddConversion ("genre", Catalog.GetString ("Genre"),  
>                  delegate (ITrackInfo t, object r) {
> @@ -98,6 +104,12 @@
>                  delegate (ITrackInfo t, object r) {
>                      return Escape (t == null ? (string)r :
> t.DisplayAlbumTitle);
>              });
> +
> +            AddConversion ("disc", Catalog.GetString ("Disc"),
> +                delegate (ITrackInfo t, object r) {
> +                    TrackInfo ti = t as TrackInfo;
> +                    return String.Format ("{0}", t == null ? (int)r :
> ti.DiscNumber);
> +            });
>              
>              AddConversion ("title", Catalog.GetString ("Title"),  
>                  delegate (ITrackInfo t, object r) {
> @@ -140,11 +152,11 @@
>          }
>          
>          public static string DefaultFolder {
> -            get { return "%artist%%path_sep%%album%"; }
> +            get { return "%album_artist%%path_sep%(%year%) %album%"; }
>          }
>          
>          public static string DefaultFile {
> -            get { return "%track_number%. %title%"; }
> +            get { return "%disc%-%track_number% %title%"; }
>          }
>          
>          public static string DefaultPattern {
> @@ -153,6 +165,7 @@
>          
>          private static string [] suggested_folders = new string [] {
>              DefaultFolder,
> +            "%artist%%path_sep%%album%",
>              "%artist%%path_sep%%artist% - %album%",
>              "%artist%%path_sep%%album% (%year%)",
>              "%artist% - %album%",
> @@ -166,6 +179,7 @@
>      
>          private static string [] suggested_files = new string [] {
>              DefaultFile,
> +            "%track_number%. %title%",
>              "%track_number%. %artist% - %title%",
>              "%artist% - %title%",
>              "%artist% - %track_number% - %title%",
> 
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