Re: [Muine] Some thoughts on playlist management

[Jorn Baayen <jbaayen gnome org>]

Hey,

I'll probably commit this or a variant of it after 0.8.0 is out (Muine
is in some sort of string-freeze like thing atm, and a gconf string is a
string), but I was just wondering about how bad it would be to have a
"Do not attempt to create albums" check box in the "Import folder"
dialog. It seems so hackish. But then again, it would be very useful. 

Ideas appreciated :)

Cheers,

Jorn

On Sat, 2005-01-08 at 04:49 +1100, Tom Coleman wrote:
> Alright, alright, I'll do it.
> 
> Or more accurately, I've done it. Its not too complicated, and I think
> it works nicely. 
> 
> The only issue is that because the individual songs are no long part of
> an album, they don't have an album photo attached to them. I don't think
> there is a very clean way make it so they do...
> 
> Oh well, they wouldn't have with the retagging solution anyway.
> 
> Cheers,
> Tom
> 
> On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 17:56 +0200, Yo'av Moshe wrote:
> > I'm certanialy voting for this one. I'm having this problem too, and
> > it's seems like the only solution that won't harm no-one.
> > 
> > Now we only need someone to write a patch for it... :)
> > 
> > Yo'av.
> > 
> > 
> > On Sat, 08 Jan 2005 02:08:52 +1100, Tom Coleman <tmcol bigpond net au> wrote:
> > > Hmm...
> > > 
> > > Well although this will certainly fix the problem, I don't really like
> > > the idea of having a significant portion of my collection improperly
> > > tagged.
> > > 
> > > What about the possibility of having a gconf key specifying a directory
> > > under which muine won't group songs into albums? I realise its fairly
> > > clumsy, but it seems the best solution to me, and having it in gconf
> > > will mean it will be hidden to those who don't know why its there.
> > > 
> > > Cheers,
> > > Tom
> > > 
> > > On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 14:57 +0100, Jorn Baayen wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > Yea, this is a known problem, but from the Muine side there is nothing
> > > > that can be done about it I think. Single-track albums are valid and do
> > > > exists, so having a certain minimum of tracks won't do.
> > > >
> > > > The best I can suggest is hacking up a simple script that will strip
> > > > album tags off all your single songs.
> > > >
> > > > HTH,
> > > >
> > > > Jorn
> > > >
> > > > On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 20:19 +1100, Tom Coleman wrote:
> > > > > Hi all,
> > > > >
> > > > > I've always really enjoyed using muine because my listening habits are
> > > > > very album based, and muine fits my use case very well (I'm sure it
> > > > > works well more many others too).
> > > > >
> > > > > However, for whatever reason, I have a collection of songs that aren't
> > > > > whole albums. Just random tracks that I liked and picked up along the
> > > > > way...
> > > > >
> > > > > The problem that this causes is that the Album list ends up having all
> > > > > these albums in it consisting of single (or a couple) of tracks. This
> > > > > means that its harder to find the 'real' albums, plus it can be a source
> > > > > of disappointment :) For me it would be more appropriate if those tracks
> > > > > were only to appear in the Song list...
> > > > >
> > > > > As it is I don't see any good way to fix this problem.. here's a couple
> > > > > of things I thought of
> > > > > 1) Define an album as having at least X tracks. Clumsy and generally
> > > > > bad, I'd say..
> > > > > 2) Use the 'total tracks' tag. However this is often not defined, plus
> > > > > it would probably be quite annoying if an album didn't appear just
> > > > > because you were missing one song (for whatever reason)
> > > > > 3) Define a seperate directory where 'single tracks' are placed.
> > > > > Although I think its clumsy, and perhaps asks too much from the user, I
> > > > > personally would be willing to do it..
> > > > >
> > > > > Does anyone have any better ideas? (I'll admit mine aren't very good :)
> > > > >
> > > > > Regards,
> > > > > Tom
> > > > >
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