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foo_discogs

Reply #200 –
yeaaah  very nice that the new version is out
but one small question, when I disable the fetching of the small album art and want to download the covers later on is this possible?

foo_discogs

Reply #201 –
Firstly... I love this component!!!

But I have a couple of suggestions, appologies if they have been suggested before.

1) Option to rename physical files based on discog info/mp3 tags as many ripped CDs come out as track1, track2 etc

2) Not sure how this'd work, but ill try and explain...  When searching for an album, using the recent new interface, many albums have lots of versions e.g. us, uk, australian etc. Sometimes slight variations on track lists. So you have to go to each discogs page and try and find the on that matches the number of tracks you have.
It would be cool if the component could count how many files you have selected to tag and then check the discogs pages for albums that have the same number of tracks, just to narrow it down a bit.

Hope that makes sense!!

Dve

foo_discogs

Reply #202 –
1) Masstagger. No need to duplicate functions.
Sharing delusions since 1991.

foo_discogs

Reply #204 –
Quote from: Dve on
Firstly... I love this component!!!

But I have a couple of suggestions, appologies if they have been suggested before.

1) Option to rename physical files based on discog info/mp3 tags as many ripped CDs come out as track1, track2 etc


You already the mass file renamer for this, in file operation/move rename files that does a great job at it.
After tagging I rename the files by Label/release id - album/track


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2) Not sure how this'd work, but ill try and explain...  When searching for an album, using the recent new interface, many albums have lots of versions e.g. us, uk, australian etc. Sometimes slight variations on track lists. So you have to go to each discogs page and try and find the on that matches the number of tracks you have.
It would be cool if the component could count how many files you have selected to tag and then check the discogs pages for albums that have the same number of tracks, just to narrow it down a bit.


This would'nt work if you want to tag an incomplete release (ie you don't have all the files), and you can already double click on a release to launch the www release page to do a quick check.

foo_discogs

Reply #205 –
Quote from: bubbleguuum on
Quote from: Dve on

Firstly... I love this component!!!

But I have a couple of suggestions, appologies if they have been suggested before.

1) Option to rename physical files based on discog info/mp3 tags as many ripped CDs come out as track1, track2 etc


You already the mass file renamer for this, in file operation/move rename files that does a great job at it.
After tagging I rename the files by Label/release id - album/track


Didnt know about this, cheers!

Quote from: bubbleguuum on
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2) Not sure how this'd work, but ill try and explain...  When searching for an album, using the recent new interface, many albums have lots of versions e.g. us, uk, australian etc. Sometimes slight variations on track lists. So you have to go to each discogs page and try and find the on that matches the number of tracks you have.
It would be cool if the component could count how many files you have selected to tag and then check the discogs pages for albums that have the same number of tracks, just to narrow it down a bit.


This would'nt work if you want to tag an incomplete release (ie you don't have all the files), and you can already double click on a release to launch the www release page to do a quick check.


I didnt mean limit the list, but add as a filter option, to make it quicker to track down the release that your probably looking for.

foo_discogs

Reply #206 –
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I didnt mean limit the list, but add as a filter option, to make it quicker to track down the release that your probably looking for.


The problem is that to retrieve the number of track of each release you have to parse all the pages which would be painfully slow.

foo_discogs

Reply #207 –
Quote from: bubbleguuum on
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I didnt mean limit the list, but add as a filter option, to make it quicker to track down the release that your probably looking for.


The problem is that to retrieve the number of track of each release you have to parse all the pages which would be painfully slow.


I see, oh well. Maybe one day discogs will distribute an API.

Nice work on the component though, I use it all the time!

foo_discogs

Reply #209 –
Hi, i love this plugin, it takes my music collection to a whole new level.
But i have a request regarding this topic: could you please put the changelogs into a codebox or just simply remove the old changelogs and keep only the most recent one? I'm using the Linear+ forum layout and the 1st post is taking too much space, so i always have to scroll a lot.
Thanks in advance, hope i'm not carping too much

foo_discogs

Reply #210 –
Whoow! Absoulutely the Best plugin for this app!
Love it ,use it ,works ,perfect*
Thanks.

foo_discogs

Reply #211 –
@dave_scream : I could not reproduce it, can you ?

@molnart & kri2 : thanks

There will be some great new features in the next version!

foo_discogs

Reply #212 –
ehm... i meant a codebox (which is smaller and has a vertical scrollbar) instead of code . So use <codebox></codebox> instead of <code></code> (replace the <> with []). I really don't want to bother, but this quite annoys me. Hope you don't get angry or offended in any way...

foo_discogs

Reply #213 –
Hello!
I've used winamp for ten years, but changed to foobar2000 because of this plugin.
I've tested it on a lots of albums; and it works very good..
It's missed some tracklisting on some albums, but thats ok.

I really liked your screenshot and have working a couple of days in doing the same thing, but what i'm missing is
the UI-codes for VinylTracks and discogsMembersHave.

It's been mentioned earlier inthe tread that one should use masstagger to change the filenames from the tags. That would be nice. I am thinking about renaming my files according to the %discogs_artist% etc.. but i cannot find masstagger anywhere. Another thing that would be nice is the possibility of overwriting the %artist% tag by the %discogs_artist% tag etc .. to to clean up the library..

How about some function that checks your discogs id on a folder and tells you what files that are lost..and an export to exel so that you can do statistics on your collection; or upload the collection to 'myDiscogs'..
lol im on a roll...this is the best plugin i've used..you made me happy..thanks

foo_discogs

Reply #214 –
Quote from: robotnik on
Hello!
I've used winamp for ten years, but changed to foobar2000 because of this plugin.
I've tested it on a lots of albums; and it works very good..
It's missed some tracklisting on some albums, but thats ok.


which ones ? the plugin failed or the album just was not on discogs ?


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I really liked your screenshot and have working a couple of days in doing the same thing, but what i'm missing is
the UI-codes for VinylTracks and discogsMembersHave.


just use [%vinyltrack%] or [%discogs_members_have%] or whatever the mappings you attributed to those values

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It's been mentioned earlier inthe tread that one should use masstagger to change the filenames from the tags. That would be nice. I am thinking about renaming my files according to the %discogs_artist% etc..


It's not the mass-tagger but the mass file rename which can be found in the context menu under "File operation/ Move rename deletes files". Experiment with it a bit with some files to find a good mask, here's waht I use which rename by "label/cat# - album artist - album/track or vinyltrack - artist - title" (simplified)

Code: [Select]
Labels/$replace($replace($meta(discogs_label,0),\,-,/,-,:,-,*,-,?,,",-,<,-,>,-,|,-),_,-)/
$replace($replace('['$meta(discogs_catalog,0)']' - %album artist% - %album%[ '('disc %discnumber%')'][ - %date%],\,-,/,-,:,-,*,-,?,,",-,<,-,>,-,|,-),_,-)/$if2(%vinyltrack%,%track%) - $replace($replace(%artist% - %title%,\,-,/,-,:,-,*,-,?,,",-,<,-,>,-,|,-),_,-)


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but i cannot find masstagger anywhere. Another thing that would be nice is the possibility of overwriting the %artist% tag by the %discogs_artist% tag etc .. to to clean up the library..


by default Artist is mapped to tag ARTIST if you didn't change it in the mapping. You can copy a tag into another using the masstagger but I never used it so I can't help you

foo_discogs

Reply #215 –
thanks for the quick and informative reply..
..It was just the cronology of the tracks, I'll tag more tonight,and will tip you on which albums it happens on..
with whe vinyl tag: had to turn on 'write' tag on those..but when i tried to update, foobar crashed..

Hey..i'll try that tagging code immediately..looks good..

foo_discogs

Reply #216 –
the crash happened when i tried to update this 12" (the tags were already written with foo_discogs):
http://www.discogs.com/release/5193
i then tried to write the info again, and noticed that the B-side was on top of the A-side in the window.

foo_discogs

Reply #217 –
Just thought I'd say this is a great plug-in.  Works great for tagging my vinyl recordings.  Nice work.

foo_discogs

Reply #218 –
Quote from: robotnik on
the crash happened when i tried to update this 12" (the tags were already written with foo_discogs):
http://www.discogs.com/release/5193
i then tried to write the info again, and noticed that the B-side was on top of the A-side in the window.


The plugin tries to match the tracks but sometimes the order is wrong: just use the move up/down button in that case too match tracks manually.
As for the crash, I don't know : I tried it followed by an update and it didn't crash.


I'm working on artist art download on artist pages and I have a question for those who are interested by the feature. All artist art will be stored in a single directory user-specifiable which make sense since this data is common to several releases. Now I wonder on the format of the files.
Each artist has a unique numeric id and it'd be easy to store the file as <artist_id>_1.jpg etc...
This id would be stored into a tag, so you'd only have to set <path_to_dir>/%discogs_artist_id%_?.jpg as a source for foo_uie_albumart.
The other solution is to use artist name in file, but it has several complications : they are not unique, not always compliant with the filesystem etc..The only real advantage is if you want to see the image outside fb2k.

foo_discogs

Reply #219 –
Is it possible to include an option which lets you disable the track automatch thingy? In the right list my tracks are always in order, and if foo_discogs could just let the order be as it is on the release page, it would be a lot easier to track long albums. (Not having to reorder foo_discog's suggested (wrong) order.) I don't really see the meaning of the automacht thingy, because most of the time, your tracks would be in the right order.

foo_discogs

Reply #220 –
great work!!! thanks again for updating your plugin.

I have a simple request: would it be possible to add a horizontal scroll bar (or a tip pop-up) to the album/release browser window so I can see the endings of long album names. Now there is no way to see the end of a long string for the same release name with different label/CD/LP etc.

Thanks in advance!

foo_discogs

Reply #221 –
Quote from: bubbleguuum on
I'm working on artist art download on artist pages and I have a question for those who are interested by the feature. All artist art will be stored in a single directory user-specifiable which make sense since this data is common to several releases. Now I wonder on the format of the files.
Each artist has a unique numeric id and it'd be easy to store the file as <artist_id>_1.jpg etc...
This id would be stored into a tag, so you'd only have to set <path_to_dir>/%discogs_artist_id%_?.jpg as a source for foo_uie_albumart.
The other solution is to use artist name in file, but it has several complications : they are not unique, not always compliant with the filesystem etc..The only real advantage is if you want to see the image outside fb2k.


great news! think i requested this 1. either way sounds good both would be usable.

for simplicity could it not just be %artist%0.jpg, %artist%1.jpg, %artist%2.jpg etc etc same as you have for album art covers. think it is beneficial to see the pictures outside of the foobar instead of seeing a load of numbers

thanks for the continual updates!!

foo_discogs

Reply #222 –
Quote from: bubbleguuum on
I'm working on artist art download on artist pages and I have a question for those who are interested by the feature. All artist art will be stored in a single directory user-specifiable which make sense since this data is
..


I'm still thinking that using the filenames as found on discogs is just fine. I have set foobar to use any image found in the same folder as the music file and it' parent folder. When the artist picture download is available i'll add the parent of that folder too. I have my music in the structure \artist\album\[\cd1...cdn].
Not renaming also makes updating of the image files easier, i assume.

Just my 2c.

cheers,
a3aan.

foo_discogs

Reply #223 –
Quote from: bubbleguuum on
I'm working on artist art download on artist pages and I have a question for those who are interested by the feature. All artist art will be stored in a single directory user-specifiable which make sense since this data is common to several releases. Now I wonder on the format of the files.
Each artist has a unique numeric id and it'd be easy to store the file as <artist_id>_1.jpg etc...
This id would be stored into a tag, so you'd only have to set <path_to_dir>/%discogs_artist_id%_?.jpg as a source for foo_uie_albumart.
The other solution is to use artist name in file, but it has several complications : they are not unique, not always compliant with the filesystem etc..The only real advantage is if you want to see the image outside fb2k.
Let us use a configurable Tagz string, for name and directory!
elevatorladylevitateme
 

foo_discogs

Reply #224 –
When chosing update album art with the "process only releases for which is no art" option checked. Does it download also covers for release where there is art but not all art. Say when somebody has put new covers online or also backcovers and that stuff?


Ooh and is it possible that your plugin only writes various artists as album artist. because I have tagged all of my music and noticed that in most cases a album artist track is not present and this while I had the option checked on. When it was various artist the tag is always there. is this normal?