Re: [Banshee-List] Multiple Music Sets

["Michael.S.G." <OzFalcon bden org>]

Thanks. I wasn't aware of Smart Play lists filter ability.
Looks promising - Using a filter such as Group or some ID3 Tag.

I only edit with EasyTag. Not from within banshee. So I can't change the 
"Group" easily.
However the "ID3 Tag: Encoded By" is pretty useless to me - So I may 
group based on that.

Good enough workaround for the moment.

[Though I would prefer the ability to group based on "Import Location". 
It would be VERY handy if the "Extra" tab contained an "Import Location" 
cell.]

KR
   Michael


Michael Martin-Smucker wrote:
> I second the vote for smart playlists.  If you go the the "Extra" tab 
> in the Track Editor, you can add either "Grouping" or "Comment" 
> information.  You can use this info to sort or filter your library, 
> and to create fairly elaborate smart playlists.  The added bonus is 
> that you don't have to mess up the real metadata.
>
> On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 8:04 PM, zekopeko <zekopeko gmail com 
> <mailto:zekopeko gmail com>> wrote:
>
>     On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 1:36 AM, Michael.S.G. <OzFalcon bden org
>     <mailto:OzFalcon bden org>> wrote:
>     > I have just noticed in the Bugs (Fixed) that Banshee supports
>     .mod (Tracker)
>     > files via gstreamer. This is great. But makes a Banshee limitation
>     > exasperated.
>     >
>     > How do others separate their music sets?
>     > Currently I use Play Lists to Separate my music "Types". This
>     works only
>     > Just.
>     >
>     > We (I ) really need some sort of Set's separator similar to
>     Audiobook
>     > extention.
>     >
>     > I would like to split my banshee DB (Same DB, Different "Sets")
>     to this:
>     >
>     > 1. Modern music collection Albums.
>     > 2. Modern music collection Compilations.
>     > 3. Modern music collection Classic Hits (One big directory).
>     > 4. Audio books and the like.
>     > 5. Classical music collection Albums & Compilations.
>     > 6. Love song collection. (Many duplicates from Modern
>     collection. But want
>     > to keep file structure AND Banshee entries separate.)
>     > 7. A game music set would be nice. (Lots of Unreal, Mech warrior
>     etc music)
>     > 8. And I'd love to have a .Mod's set.
>     >
>     >
>     > Currently I have to set it up like this: (Big hack for the most
>     part)
>     > eg.
>     > * Albums and Compilations are simply dumped together.  Works ok.
>     >
>     > * I have to separate Classic hits directory by setting "Artist"
>     to "Various
>     > Classics" and then make a play list based on that.
>     >
>     > * Love song collection. Not sure how to get this in cleanly. Setting
>     > "Artist" to "Various Lovesongs" for all 40 albums would be
>     painful - And
>     > also a bad Idea to lose that metadata info just to "Separate"
>     the sets. It
>     > remains unused.
>     >
>     > *  Classical collection. Same problem as Love song collection.
>     In the Intrim
>     > I have simply used the 101 Classical Hits albums (4cds) and set
>     "Artist" to
>     > "Various Classical" to import into play list.
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     > Q. Why set "Artist" to "Various yada yada"?
>     > A. I can simply scroll down to "V" artist entries and drag to
>     make a music
>     > set list.
>     >
>     > This is handy when current WIP on your mp3 collection requires
>     re-creating
>     > your banshee DB from scratch to clean up older now defunct
>     entries. But
>     > doing so deletes your play list sets. So a simple and quick
>     method of
>     > re-creating music sets was needed.
>     >
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