Re: [Muine] NEW PRELEASE: 0.8.1pre1

[Jorn Baayen <jbaayen gnome org>]

�el kenal p�al (p�v, 23. jaanuar 2005, 18:15+0000), kirjutas
Peter Oliver:
> On Sun, 23 Jan 2005, Christian E. Kaas wrote:
> 
> >>>> On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 20:20:18 +0100, Jorn Baayen <jbaayen gnome org> 
> >>>> wrote:
> >>>> 
> >>>>> - Only list complete albums in album list. An album is complete
> >>>>>   if the number of tracks equals the "total number of tracks" tag.
> >>>>>   (We are "mild"- 3 more or less will be fine too)
> > 
> > Let me start by summarizing.. looking at the tools in my Linux distribution I 
> > see nowhere that I can specify the "total number of tracks"-tag. More 
> > specifically, I often use Grip to automate the ripping and encoding process, 
> > however, the program is not capable of writing this tag. Also the 
> > command-line tool oggenc does not have an option for specifying this tag.
> 
> Tracktotal is not even a standard Vorbis tag.  Searching the web for 
> "vorbis tracktotal" yields so few hits that I suspect it's far from 
> widely used.

It seems to be a new semi-standard implemented by many new taggers. The
metadata code also looks for the total in the vorbis track number tag,
which is the way many older oggs are tagged. (N/TOTAL)

> 
> > Seen with the eyes of a typical user I propose another solution: What about 
> > keeping old practice and instead make it possible for the user in the UI to 
> > easily remove incomplete albums from the album list? Or is there some 
> > extraordinary reason for not including this functionality?
> 
> Who's going to go to the trouble of using such functionality if it was 
> provided?  This needs to just work.
> 
> I suppose there could be a "Show incomplete albums" checkbox on the Play 
> Album window.  This would allow for aggressive filtering of incomplete 
> albums whilst still allowing people to get at all of their collection. 
> However, I think it'd be better to just have laxer filtering.

Laxer filtering all the way. Your patch rocks, see my other mail for
that. :)

Jorn