Re: [Muine] [PATCH] incomplete albums

[Jorn Baayen <jbaayen gnome org>]

On Sun, 2005-01-16 at 01:01 +0200, Yo'av Moshe wrote:
> So, since I'm no shell coder either (damn it I'm just no good, gotta
> learn *something*), I went ahead and checked EasyTag, which I use
> regularly on my music library.
> 
> Apparently EasyTag works great for us - If you have EasyTag to check
> sub-directories, you can just point it to your 'albums' directory,
> have it scan all of your songs, select all of them, and, here's the
> magic -> click the button that is left to the total-tracks input field
> and have it all tagged correctly! Yup, even though you have them all
> selected it will tag it by the number of files in the directory. Just
> save and that's it.

Rocking.

Well, I commited the stuff then- once we release this, we should point
people to easytag to fix their collections if they lack this tag.

Cheers,

Jorn

> 
> Yo'av.
> 
> 
> On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 21:33:32 +0100, Jorn Baayen <jbaayen gnome org> wrote:
> > On Sat, 2005-01-15 at 15:16 -0500, Matthew Good wrote:
> > > On Sat, 2005-01-15 at 19:06 +0100, Jorn Baayen wrote:
> > > > This isn't a matter of filtering, it's just a matter of showing only
> > > > albums. Showing single tracks which just happen to have an album tag in
> > > > an album view is broken behaviour.
> > > >
> > > > Search options like you describe there are completely out of the
> > > > question. This is Muine, damn it ;)
> > > >
> > > > Cheers,
> > > >
> > > > Jorn
> > >
> > > Alright, I guess I understand where you're going with this now.  It
> > > seems like a bunch of people were coming up with ideas _how_ to do this,
> > > but the idea of _what_ the goal was had been lost.  I think with some
> > > more of the ideas from the groups proposal implemented, the complete
> > > album thing would be useful, but if this makes it in too soon, I feel
> > > like it will hurt certain usages of Muine.
> > 
> > Well, this has never meant to behave this way, so if people have built
> > their usage patterns upon broken behaviour this is now entirely their
> > problem. Things will get better again when the groups stuff lands, but
> > that will be after 1.0. And I want this particular thing in 1.0, as it
> > belongs to the "core".
> > 
> > > Right now I typically don't have specific music in mind, so I'll open up
> > > the Play Album window to get a higher level view of my music, scroll
> > > through and see what I'm in the mood for and hit play.  I may not care
> > > if I play a full album, but I don't want to have to scroll through
> > > song-by-song either.  Certainly some of the stuff from the groups
> > > proposal for random music selection could help this.
> > 
> > I know. This is what the groups stuff has been designed for.
> > 
> > > One concern with the complete album stuff is nearly-complete albums.  I
> > > use eMusic to get a lot of my music, and I almost always end up with a
> > > partial album when I reach my monthly limit, and I have to wait until
> > > the next month to download the remaining tracks.  I think it could be
> > > kind of annoying to have an album hidden from the list simply because it
> > > was missing a track or two.
> > 
> > We could define a certain fuzziness so that an album with just 1-3
> > tracks missing will still show up ..
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Jorn
> > 
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