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oh ?

brb will look for that :)

yeah, basically what happens is it will still be presented as such on the right pane of picard

but it will not save the text into the release title, so all your songs will be stacked in the same folder when saved, and instead only the disc number tags will be filled in the file metadata itself

exactly

that is just what i need :D

very first one

any other questions?

2sec, just testing :)

sure sure

I'll be around, not necessarily with the IRC window in the foreground.

thank you very very much :)

i have no idea why that plugin didnt work for me the first time around thou

i downloaded it like 4-5 hours ago and tried it

oh well :)

it works perfectly now :)

had you restarted after putting it in, AND checked it after relaunching picard? (ugh, I hate that these scripts aren't on by default)

restarted -> picard

aye, i did, but i was playing around with a truckload of a script at the time, so something might have cancelled the other ... dont know if that is even possible :)

but what is most important is that it works now :D

it is, scripts can conflict, and (IIRC) you may never know about it

manual namspacing is mean.

but, glad it worked :)

indeed :)

a small question for you

is there a way to script it so that, if piccard doesnt find any track or anything it can use, that it defaults to the actual filename for the tag info ?

nope. Picard was designed to use the web services.

okies, i thought as much, but it cant hurt to ask )

:)

I use a two tiered approach, admittedly.

and it has the file -> tag function in the menu, so its no biggie :)

oh ?

do tell :)

I use picard to get everything grouped and with initial information, and quite often I use other apps (Pollux when it's in my iTunes library), or CoverScout/Song Genie to gather a bunch more information Picard does not necessarily keep (art, lyrics, genre, etc.)

does it really have a manual tag function?! I don't think I've ever noticed.

what OS are you on, btw?

win7

under tools

huh. tools -> tags from filename... WOW

I never, EVER noticed that.

:)

glad you could help me too :)

hehe :) i use mp3 tagger most of the time for the manual tagging, because it has a scriptish kinda interface for it, which is very very powerfull :)

http://www.mp3tag.de/en/ <- thats the one

youre on mac or ?

jah

damn, coverscout looks nifty :)

I was going to suggest mp3tag or jaikoz

though I don't know the full extent of either of those apps

CoverScout and SongGenie are expensive, but I thoroughly enjoy them for more mainstream releases.

And MusicBrainz fills the gap for things I enter myself, and those much much more niché releases :).

mp3 tag is very fast and the scripting is very powerfull :)

I used EasyTag while I was on linux, it's the closest analog to Mp3Tag, I imagine.

yesterday i redid some 12k of tunes or so, with mp3 tag and a custom script in there, basically setting genre and removing stuff that wasnt needed and adding some details

took around 3 hours of work total

nice

so yes, if someone asks, its highly recommendable :D

VxJasonxV / you still around ?

hawke__ / you know your way around scripting dont you ?

Naed: …some, why?

hi, sorry

im trying to make sense of a script i found on the forum :)

nothing to be sorry about VxJasonxV :)

$replace($if($eq($left($if2(%albumartist%,%artist%),4),The ),[$left($right($if2(%albumartist%,%artist%),$sub($len($if2(%albumartist%,%artist%)),4)),1)],[$left($if2(%albumartist%,%artist%),1))/$rreplace($replace($if2(%albumartist%,%artist%),...,…),\\.\$,$noop(.))/%albumartist% - $replace(%album%,...,…),\\.\$,$noop(.))/$num(%tracknumber%,2) - %albumartist% - $replace(%title%,...,…) $noop(.)

that mess there

if read from the back

the last $replace , what is the meaning of that one

why not just use %title% ?

It replaces three periods (...) with the ellipsis character (…)

hmm

Or the other way around, not sure.

No, I was right.

hmm, that sadly doesnt mean much for me, my only comparison here is the examples i can see in the options under MB, and it doesnt show a difference there ..

so if it isnt too much trouble could you explain a bit more ?

In unicode, there is provided a specific character for the ellipsis.

okies

it makes sense now :)

thank you :)

still anyone awake ?

?

you know your way around scripting ?

in picard?

aye

its similar to a lot of other things i know, so sure

fair :)

$replace($if($eq(%albumartist%,Various Artists),Various Artists/,$if($eq($left($if2(%albumartist%,%artist%),),The ),$left($right($if2(%albumartist%,%artist%),$sub($len($if2(%albumartist%,%artist%)),4)),1),$left($if2(%albumartist%,%artist%),1))/$rreplace($replace($if2(%albumartist%,%artist%),...,…),\\.\$,$noop(.))/$if($ne(%albumartist%,Various Artists),$if(%date%,[$left(%date%,4)] )))$rreplace($replace(%album%,...,…),\\.\$,$noop(.))/$num(%t

can you help figure out why i on the last title get underscore replacements for the spaces ?

can you just paste the relevant part?

$replace(%artist% - %title%,...,…),,$noop(.)) <- i think its this part

did you write this script?

but it might tie back to something before that

nope, its a hack job im working

because i dont understand it

im basically just prodding it and trying to figure out what the heck it does :)

its hard for other people to help you with your script if you don't understand your script

oh, i know :)

i would suggest stripping it down to the most basic level and building on top of that

also install notepad++ and use that to make sure you have all your parethesis closed

but as when i asked before it might be a concept i didnt know about, re: the elipsis replacement that hawke explained for me :)

ill do that and have a look, thank you for the suggestion :)

VxJasonxV: you mean like http://musicbrainz.org/show/stats/timeline.html... ?

nikki, no, I mean like edit view. timeline. for all cd stubs. or perhaps unattached ones.

I submitted a stub logged out so I could look up more information and enter it later.

no

you could try searching the cd stubs

Does it follow the same 24 hour indexing rule?

6 hours

Direct Search doesn't work for cd stubs

ah, then I can try again

that timeline page is pretty awesome, btw

(the main search is also 6 hours ;))

never seen it before

woot, there it is

I didn't say it was informative. It just looks cool.

ah, I see

hi there !

nikki; as style grand-master, are you concerned by the cover URL AR also ?

"concerned"?

I mean like the french word "concernée" ... ah, what would be the translation... i open my dico

maybe "involved" sounds better