Re: [Banshee-List] New kid in town/Customized file names in Banshee

[Bertrand Lorentz <bertrand lorentz gmail com>]

Hi,

Thanks for your feedback, and for your kind words.
Some answers included in the text below.

On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 4:12 AM, Edu Camargo <edumusico gmail com> wrote:
> Hi all. Before anything, greetings to all the people through out the world
> subscribed to this list. Saudações brasileiras.
>
> I'm gradually moving to Linux and I'm experimenting with Banshee, since it
> is the best player for me in terms of features, flexibility and even
> accessibility. I can use it comfortably with Orca screen reader. Yeah, a
> blind user. Although I miss some facilities like having a shortcut key for
> seeking, or at least a way to seek the same way you can adjust the volume
> when you press enter while the slider is in focus, it is the best I found
> for playing my music on Linux, ripping CDs, changing music information and
> etc. I've been using Foobar2000 on my Windows machine and I love the tools
> it offers.

You're right, it seems it's impossible to seek using just the
keyboard. It's already filed in our bugtracker, and I've just added
your suggestion on the bug:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=672666

> Anyway, recently I've discovered that you can setup file name conventions
> beyond what's offered by the banshee GUI. Basically what I'm trying to do
> is:
> When you have an album that is comprised of a single disc, like "21" by
> Adele, it is normaly named like this: "02 - Rumour Has It.flac"
> But when it's a multi-cd like Pink Floyd's "The Wall "you can have it named
> like this: "2-01 - Hey You.flac"
>
> I'm trying to acomplish this in a form of condition, when disc count is
> greater than 1 it names dynamically, just like it happens in iTunes. I was
> able to get the same result with Foobar2000.
> How can I acomplish this in Banshee? anything on gconf-editor or similar
> would do the trick. If is there any technical documentation explaining the
> necessary codes and arguments to be used to get the results I'm interested
> in, please let me know as well.

You can set a custom folder and file name pattern using gconf-editor.
The relevant keys are /apps/banshee-1/library/folder_pattern and
/apps/banshee-1/library/file_pattern
Sadly, those patterns are not documented properly. They are list in
the source code here, hopefully their name is self-explanatory:
https://git.gnome.org/browse/banshee/tree/src/Core/Banshee.Services/Banshee.Library/MusicFileNamePattern.cs#n67

If a token is between { } it will be omitted if the corresponding
field is empty. So, for your example, you could use the following
pattern :
{%track_number%-}{%disc_number% -} %title%

But that will only get the result you want if the disc number is not
set for single disc albums. There's currently no way to have a
condition on those patterns.
But maybe it would make sense to special-case the disc number, and
consider a value of 1 to be the same as "empty" if the disc count is
also 1 ?

I hope this helps !

--
Bertrand