#musicbrainz

hey, so i save all music that comes out of picard into one of 12 month-coded folders in my music collection, i.e., unsurprisingly, I just changed the Picard destination directory to /library/music/04-new.music

can I make that something like `$(date +%whatever gives me ## month)` ?

can I make that something like `/library/music/$(date +%whatever gives me ## month)-new.music` ?

i guess %m

`$ cd /librar/music/"$(date +%m)-new.music"` actually works because i set bash to excuse small typos like that.

iconoclast_hero, try something like $month($datetime(\%Y-\%m-\%d)) to get the month to enter in your file naming script.

or possibly just $datetime(\%m)

so...

maybe that is a much better way of doing it than how i am.

can the file naming script decide what directory files are saved in? i.e., i can set `Destination directory` in the Picard File Naming Options dialog to /library/music and have the naming script change the location based on the month?

Picard always goes to these directories so it's really not that big of a deal that this is going to be hard to figure out later.

i'll try to find a place to remind myself that's what's happening.

You can set the starting directory in the option settings at https://picard-docs.musicbrainz.org/en/config/o... and the file naming script saves to the specified subdirectory https://picard-docs.musicbrainz.org/en/tutorial...

yep, this'll take care of what i wanted to do on that first line...i can see some issues with having it call `date` ...

$datetime(\%m)-new.music/$if(%_multiartist%,$if2(%albumartist%,%artist%) -- $if($ne(%albumartist%,),%album% $if(%originalyear%,\(%originalyear%\), $if(%date%,\($left(%date%,4)\)))/,)

thank you very much rdswift!

hi all, it looks like the general rate limit for the MB public api (like just GET http://musicbrainz.org/ws/2/release/123) is one request per second? is that right?

or, if i provide a user agent, i can request a bit faster? https://musicbrainz.org/doc/MusicBrainz_API/Rat...

(from 1 IP)

oop, just re-read it just seems like 1 request per second is the most you can do from 1 IP, regardless of anything else