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foo_discogs

Reply #425
There's no way to know these subtracks are not real tracks and it's a rare case. Just delete the offending subtracks and hit the renumber button but I'm sure you already figured that
I realize it's rare, be could a solution be a "combined subtracks" button so that the subtrack names are not lost?
elevatorladylevitateme

foo_discogs

Reply #426
+ fix: artist art directory is created if it does not exist
Could you explain how it works ?
putting F:\mp3\artists\ do not create a specific folder for the artist.

OK, I understood..

and putting an invalide filepath (F:/mp3/artists ) makes fb2K crash with a pop up saying "invalid filepath"

foo_discogs

Reply #427
@Chris Norman: you have this error because the artist art directory does not exist. Just create it and it should work. In next version the directory is created if it does not exists


No that is not quite correct - Folder exists. I found a way to circumvent: I just copied everything into a folder that does not have spaces and it worked.

BTW the mass update  mode now works like a charm. No crashes anymore

foo_discogs

Reply #428
it is about multivalued tags
bubbleguuum as i saw on screenshots, u use "playlist tree"... and i have a question:
for example "by artist" query in playlist_tree... what u doing in situation, when there are for example this names:

Umek
Umek vs. Chris Liebing
Ben Long & Umek

and when searching "Umek", "Ben Long & Umek" will be far away from Umek in list, cause "B" is far away from "U"
and i want to see all this releases in just "Umek" folder

so i've tryed to make %album artist% as multivalued tag... and  manually edit "Ben Long & Umek" with ";" between artists, for multivalued string...
and then in Query editor i use this:  <%album artist%>  but all this dont work as it must...

and then i have read the playlist tree info.. and in txt author says that <%tag%> is not working... but this job can be finished by some speial query language in playlist tree...

does anybody know how to make this work? and if yes, maybe foo_discogs can just write artist tag like this "Umek; Chris Liebing" instead of "Umek vs. Chris Liebing"...?

foo_discogs

Reply #429
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+ add: value written for %ALBUM_ARTIST% when release is a compilation is now configurable (default: "Various Artist")

yeah!  thanks
Thinking Outside The Box

foo_discogs

Reply #430
it is about multivalued tags
bubbleguuum as i saw on screenshots, u use "playlist tree"... and i have a question:
for example "by artist" query in playlist_tree... what u doing in situation, when there are for example this names:

Umek
Umek vs. Chris Liebing
Ben Long & Umek

and when searching "Umek", "Ben Long & Umek" will be far away from Umek in list, cause "B" is far away from "U"
and i want to see all this releases in just "Umek" folder

so i've tryed to make %album artist% as multivalued tag... and  manually edit "Ben Long & Umek" with ";" between artists, for multivalued string...
and then in Query editor i use this:  <%album artist%>  but all this dont work as it must...

and then i have read the playlist tree info.. and in txt author says that <%tag%> is not working... but this job can be finished by some speial query language in playlist tree...

does anybody know how to make this work? and if yes, maybe foo_discogs can just write artist tag like this "Umek; Chris Liebing" instead of "Umek vs. Chris Liebing"...?


I'm using <%STYLE%> to have a release with multiple styles appear in each playlist tree style node. Ex if a release has style Techno and Acid it would be listed in both Techno and Acid categories in the tree. It works because %STYLE% is a multivalue tag
As you said for this to work for artists, %ARTIST% need to be a multi-value tag. I'll add the option in the next release.


There's no way to know these subtracks are not real tracks and it's a rare case. Just delete the offending subtracks and hit the renumber button but I'm sure you already figured that
I realize it's rare, be could a solution be a "combined subtracks" button so that the subtrack names are not lost?


Would be difficult to do an UI for that for such a rare case. You're better off manually editing the names afterwards to add the subtracks.


@Chris Norman: you have this error because the artist art directory does not exist. Just create it and it should work. In next version the directory is created if it does not exists


No that is not quite correct - Folder exists. I found a way to circumvent: I just copied everything into a folder that does not have spaces and it worked.



Strange because I had no problem using a directory with white spaces...(as long as it existed with the previous version)

foo_discogs

Reply #431
I'm using <%STYLE%> to have a release with multiple styles appear in each playlist tree style node. Ex if a release has style Techno and Acid it would be listed in both Techno and Acid categories in the tree. It works because %STYLE% is a multivalue tag
As you said for this to work for artists, %ARTIST% need to be a multi-value tag. I'll add the option in the next release.


I understand where is the problem was! (ive talked about %album artist%, but not about %artist%)
and the solution is: %album artist% is not always has VALUE!!!
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and all releases in playlist tree is not showed when using %<album artist>% BECAUSE  if %artist% == %album artist% - %album artist% is empty!!!  but for example Columns UI if %album artist% empty, uses just %artist

but! when using <%album artist%> scheme, %artist% and %album artist% is no more linked!!!! so... if i use this theme in playlist tree  it will show only the releases, with %album artist%...

so another offer: fill the %album artist% tag even if %artist% == %album artist%
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I checked it right now, and for example here: http://www.discogs.com/release/211645
when i tag, %album artist%  is empty
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no, it is not working...some releases are out of list anyway. im waiting for answer here http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index....id=521309&#

foo_discogs

Reply #432

I'm using <%STYLE%> to have a release with multiple styles appear in each playlist tree style node. Ex if a release has style Techno and Acid it would be listed in both Techno and Acid categories in the tree. It works because %STYLE% is a multivalue tag
As you said for this to work for artists, %ARTIST% need to be a multi-value tag. I'll add the option in the next release.


I understand where is the problem was! (ive talked about %album artist%, but not about %artist%)
and the solution is: %album artist% is not always has VALUE!!!
---
and all releases in playlist tree is not showed when using %<album artist>% BECAUSE  if %artist% == %album artist% - %album artist% is empty!!!  but for example Columns UI if %album artist% empty, uses just %artist

but! when using <%album artist%> scheme, %artist% and %album artist% is no more linked!!!! so... if i use this theme in playlist tree  it will show only the releases, with %album artist%...

so another offer: fill the %album artist% tag even if %artist% == %album artist%
---
I checked it right now, and for example here: http://www.discogs.com/release/211645
when i tag, %album artist%  is empty
---
no, it is not working...some releases are out of list anyway. im waiting for answer here http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index....id=521309&#


Thinking about this issue even if  %ALBUM ARTIST% always contained a value (all artists, as a multi value tag) it still wouldn't work for compilation becuase in that's case %ALBUM ARTIST% value is "Various Artist".

I'm going to add another tag let's say %ARTIST_MULTI% that will be the same as %ARTIST% but without the join fields between artist. Example : if %ARTIST% is "Foo vs Bar", %ARTIST_MULTI% will contain "Foo; Bar" (as a multi value tag). Then you can just use <%ARTIST_MULTI%> and it should work. Does it cover all the cases ?

foo_discogs

Reply #433
Thinking about this issue even if  %ALBUM ARTIST% always contained a value (all artists, as a multi value tag) it still wouldn't work for compilation becuase in that's case %ALBUM ARTIST% value is "Various Artist".

I'm going to add another tag let's say %ARTIST_MULTI% that will be the same as %ARTIST% but without the join fields between artist. Example : if %ARTIST% is "Foo vs Bar", %ARTIST_MULTI% will contain "Foo; Bar" (as a multi value tag). Then you can just use <%ARTIST_MULTI%> and it should work. Does it cover all the cases ?


well.. this scheme will be good for getting all track list of 1 %artist% and it will show all the tracks of artist... unmixed-from releases of this artist, and mixed from mixes and compilations of other artists, and shure this feature will not be spare. so %artist_multi% +1

but it is good to have a feature for getting only full releases of artist (not just separate tracks from releases with tracklist which contains this artist) ... and for this job %album artist% must be used instead of just %artist%.

and another reason, for example here: http://www.discogs.com/release/924278
release name:
Justus Köhncke vs. Prins Thomas - Elan
tracklist:
A Justus Kohncke - Elan (Prins Thomas Versjon)
B1 Justus Kohncke - Advance (Prins Thomas Diskotek Miks)
B2 Justus Kohncke - Tilda

Prins Thomas here is only as %album artist% so here we need to use %album_artist_multivalued% instead of %artist_multivalued% because the last is not useable (it will contain only Justus Kohncke).

so it will be good to have not just %artist_multi% but and %album_artist_multi% too...

shure when %album_artist_multi% contains "Various Artist" it will be not useable in that case...  well it is not so dangerously if playlist_tree will have 1 additional node - "Various Artists"

is there some troubles in how to fill the %album_artist_multi%?
i look now for example here: http://www.discogs.com/release/924278?f=xm..._key=90c962fb19
and see this:
<artists><artist><name>Justus Köhncke</name><join>vs.</join></artist><artist><name>Prins Thomas</name></artist></artists>

so %album_artist_multi% can be constructed from all <artist> in <artists> tag in release.

foo_discogs

Reply #434

Thinking about this issue even if  %ALBUM ARTIST% always contained a value (all artists, as a multi value tag) it still wouldn't work for compilation becuase in that's case %ALBUM ARTIST% value is "Various Artist".

I'm going to add another tag let's say %ARTIST_MULTI% that will be the same as %ARTIST% but without the join fields between artist. Example : if %ARTIST% is "Foo vs Bar", %ARTIST_MULTI% will contain "Foo; Bar" (as a multi value tag). Then you can just use <%ARTIST_MULTI%> and it should work. Does it cover all the cases ?


well.. this scheme will be good for getting all track list of 1 %artist% and it will show all the tracks of artist... unmixed-from releases of this artist, and mixed from mixes and compilations of other artists, and shure this feature will not be spare. so %artist_multi% +1

but it is good to have a feature for getting only full releases of artist (not just separate tracks from releases with tracklist which contains this artist) ... and for this job %album artist% must be used instead of just %artist%.

and another reason, for example here: http://www.discogs.com/release/924278
release name:
Justus Köhncke vs. Prins Thomas - Elan
tracklist:
A Justus Kohncke - Elan (Prins Thomas Versjon)
B1 Justus Kohncke - Advance (Prins Thomas Diskotek Miks)
B2 Justus Kohncke - Tilda

Prins Thomas here is only as %album artist% so here we need to use %album_artist_multivalued% instead of %artist_multivalued% because the last is not useable (it will contain only Justus Kohncke).

so it will be good to have not just %artist_multi% but and %album_artist_multi% too...

shure when %album_artist_multi% contains "Various Artist" it will be not useable in that case...  well it is not so dangerously if playlist_tree will have 1 additional node - "Various Artists"

is there some troubles in how to fill the %album_artist_multi%?
i look now for example here: http://www.discogs.com/release/924278?f=xm..._key=90c962fb19
and see this:
<artists><artist><name>Justus Köhncke</name><join>vs.</join></artist><artist><name>Prins Thomas</name></artist></artists>

so %album_artist_multi% can be constructed from all <artist> in <artists> tag in release.


Good analysis so expect %album_artist_multi% and %artist_multi% in next release.

To respect the guidelines I'll leave %album artist% as it is (ie defined only if there's multiple artists):

"Notes: Field name is ALBUM ARTIST, with no underscore. Tag should exist if and only if an album is by multiple artists, and be contained in every track"

foo_discogs

Reply #435
Just some feedback. I get an XML Parse Error for release 850967.

The release is flagged as rejected. Probably this the reason why it doesn't work.

foo_discogs

Reply #436
I'd just like to say a big thank you to bubbleguuum for this plugin.  I'm a new user to foobar, and reading about this plugin made me want to try out foobar.  I originally planned on using foobar with foo_discogs to tag my collection, and then move back to Winamp once it was done.  Needless to say, this plugin has made foobar an essential application, I'm a total convert.  Winamp will be uninstalled very soon, methinks.

At long last, my MP3's are all (or nearly all, Discogs isn't complete, closer every day and all that) tagged, correctly, with album art, catalog numbers and labels.

Ta muchly!

 

foo_discogs

Reply #437
I'd just like to say a big thank you to bubbleguuum for this plugin.  I'm a new user to foobar, and reading about this plugin made me want to try out foobar.  I originally planned on using foobar with foo_discogs to tag my collection, and then move back to Winamp once it was done.  Needless to say, this plugin has made foobar an essential application, I'm a total convert.  Winamp will be uninstalled very soon, methinks.

At long last, my MP3's are all (or nearly all, Discogs isn't complete, closer every day and all that) tagged, correctly, with album art, catalog numbers and labels.

Ta muchly!


Thanks, glad you find the plugin useful and to see an ogger convert from winamp to foobar! And with the new foobar 0.9.5 it's an even greater time to make the switch !

foo_discogs

Reply #438
And with the new foobar 0.9.5 it's an even greater time to make the switch !

wohoho! thank you for this news!  i downloaded it right now! and i can se here new File Operations!

so now we have ability to  Rename all mp3's to new path and move all .jpg and .nfo from old location to new location simply by 2 clicks =)
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ahaha! by 1 click!

foo_discogs

Reply #439
I haven't moved over to the newer version yet, still on 0.9.4.4., seeing as I'm a brand new user, I'm a little wary of upgrading immediately, although maybe this is just over cautious on my part.  Am I missing much functionality staying where I am for the time being?  Is it safe to do this without messing up my configuration and preferences?

I've actually got another quick question, about artist art.  Currently it's downloaded to a single folder in my music folder, but I've noticed that I've got a few thousand image files, which is going to be a bit of a pain to sort through.  Ideally, I'd like each artist image to be downloaded into the album folder, as the album art currently is.  This way, I'd have not only the covers but the artist images viewable in foo_uie_albumart.  It might also be nice to have the label art, when available, downloaded in the same way. 

I'm not sure if this is possible with the current version already, or if not, if it's a possible future feature/option.  Maybe it's possible to point foo_uie_albumart to that folder and pick the right images to display?

Any pointers/help would be most appreciated.

[edited for spelling]

foo_discogs

Reply #440
I haven't moved over to the newer version yet, still on 0.9.4.4., seeing as I'm a brand new user, I'm a little wary of upgrading immediately, although maybe this is just over cautious on my part.  Am I missing much functionality staying where I am for the time being?  Is it safe to do this without messing up my configuration and preferences?


You can install 0.9.5 in a different directory if you want to play with it

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I've actually got another quick question, about artist art.  Currently it's downloaded to a single folder in my music folder, but I've noticed that I've got a few thousand image files, which is going to be a bit of a pain to sort through.  Ideally, I'd like each artist image to be downloaded into the album folder, as the album art currently is.  This way, I'd have not only the covers but the artist images viewable in foo_uie_albumart.  It might also be nice to have the label art, when available, downloaded in the same way. 

I'm not sure if this is possible with the current version already, or if not, if it's a possible future feature/option.  Maybe it's possible to point foo_uie_albumart to that folder and pick the right images to display?


The idea is that artist art is downloaded in a single directory to avoid duplication of images. You can't download it in the release directory but if more people want it I may add the option.
Using the single artist art single directory, if you didn't figured it out already, you can add a source in foo_uie_albumart like this:

Code: [Select]
i:\artist_art\[%discogs_artist_id%]_?.jpg


replace i:\artist_art\ with the good directory.
You can even have two album art panel one for album art and one for artist art.

Label art is not fetchable, I may add it.

foo_discogs

Reply #441
You can install 0.9.5 in a different directory if you want to play with it


Didn't think of that, I may well have a play around with that tomorrow.

The idea is that artist art is downloaded in a single directory to avoid duplication of images. You can't download it in the release directory but if more people want it I may add the option.
Using the single artist art single directory, if you didn't figured it out already, you can add a source in foo_uie_albumart like this:

Code: [Select]
i:\artist_art\[%discogs_artist_id%]_?.jpg


replace i:\artist_art\ with the good directory.
You can even have two album art panel one for album art and one for artist art.

Label art is not fetchable, I may add it.


It's a good idea, for those people who want to save HDD space.  Personally, a few MB here and there wouldn't bother me.  It'd be nice to have the option at least, but with your solution, it works in any case.

Having said that, I can't get it to work right now, I'm going to play around with it and get it working though.  Thanks for you help.

foo_discogs

Reply #442
Hmm, I think I've found out why there is a problem.  In the Edit tag mappings dialogue, the Original Track Number (internal) tag is mapped to DISCOGS_ARTIST_ID tag, but I can't change that because the Map To: box is greyed out.  Write tag is ticked, not greyed out.  Therefore, each track has a different artist ID, namely, the same as the track number.  Also, the Artist ID is mapped to DISCOGS_ARTIST_ID too, where write tag is greyed out too (I assume that's correct seeing as I have Fetch Artist Art enabled, and the Custom Info box is ticked.  Did I maybe change sommething I shouldn't have when I first started using this plugin?  Or maybe this is the expected behaviour?

(Sorry to bother you with this, I don't want to be a pain in the neck!)

Also, the path to my artist art is F:\Music\!artist art\???.jpg, it wouldn't be the ! causing a problem would it?

foo_discogs

Reply #443
Hmm, I think I've found out why there is a problem.  In the Edit tag mappings dialogue, the Original Track Number (internal) tag is mapped to DISCOGS_ARTIST_ID tag, but I can't change that because the Map To: box is greyed out.


Wow this is wrong and I wonder how it hapenned. Try clicking the "default mappings" button to see if "Original Track Number" is resetted to DISCOGS_ORIGINAL_TRACK_NUMBER

foo_discogs

Reply #444
I did that, and now the Original Track Number is routed to DISCOGS_ORIGINAL_TRACK_NUMBER, but now it's not fetching the artist ID, even though artist ID is checked (greyed out).  Weird.

foo_discogs

Reply #445
While using some previous version of foo_discogs (I know it wasn't 1.12), I noticed that some tags written by foo_discogs were disappearing. It seems completely random, and happened to maybe one track out of an album and never a whole album at a time.

This can cause problems with foo_dop. Please read/reply to this post if you have any info: http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index....showtopic=58454

foo_discogs

Reply #446
Hi,

where does foo_discogs store its configuration?
I'd like to copy it and use it on a different computer.

Thanks in advance.

foo_discogs

Reply #447
EDIT: seems like it was discogs itself that was causing the problem...

Oh and if it's possible please make the "label art fetching" possible, really sounds like a cool idea.

Thanks in advance

foo_discogs

Reply #448
since i switched to 0.9.5 i can't get the album arts downloaded by foo_discogs to display.
i use the dfault settings, anyone could hint me at a soultion for this please ?

and props to bubblegum too

foo_discogs

Reply #449
When I choose view release,label,artist,etc page I get an error from windows. My extentions are not connected to firefox anymore. Could you tell me what extention you use for this command so I can re-connect them?

I hope you understand what I mean, it's difficult to make my self clear because my windows is dutch. If I literally translate the error, it says that I have to go to folder options because there is no program connected to these sort of files.

EDIT: never mind I figured it out sorry