Would there be any way to use index tracks for tagging? For example, see ...
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This can be extremely helpful when tagging multi-disc releases (ie. the cd name, if any, is always given as an index track).

Your proposal makes sense and I may implement it, but I want to know first if other people are interested in this way of handling index tracks.

Quote from: bubbleguuum on 2010-07-30 22:33:51

Would there be any way to use index tracks for tagging? For example, see ...
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This can be extremely helpful when tagging multi-disc releases (ie. the cd name, if any, is always given as an index track).

Your proposal makes sense and I may implement it, but I want to know first if other people are interested in this way of handling index tracks.

I don't know if i got the idea but I found Index tags always difficult to handle while using foo_discogs.

My workaround is to manually delete the "surplus" tracks in the release preview screen and only to leave the first one. Afterwards I renamed this track accordingly.

Example:

(Confusing) example: Kyuss

I prefer to have the track titles like:

[01] I: Gardenia / Asteroid / Supa Scoopa and Mighty Scoop (17:46)
[02] II: 100° / Space Cadet / Demon Cleaner (14:51)
[03] III: Odyssey / Conan Troutman / N.O. / Whitewater (18:19)
[04] Lick Doo (0:58)

At discogs it looks like that:

   I (17:46)
1a         Gardenia       
1b         Asteroid       
1c         Supa Scoopa And Mighty Scoop       
     II (14:51)
2a         100 Degrees       
2b         Space Cadet       
2c         Demon Cleaner       
     III (18:19)
3a         Odyssey       
3b         Conan Troutman       
3c         N.O.       
3d         Whitewater       
     - (0:58)
4         Lick Doo

It would be a fine feature if discogs could "collapse" the index tracks acordingly, but I don't know how this could be achieved.

discogs.com is overloaded today and thus the plugin timeout sometimes at getting data.
So be patient until they get up to speed again.

I prefer to have the track titles like:

[01] I: Gardenia / Asteroid / Supa Scoopa and Mighty Scoop (17:46)
[02] II: 100° / Space Cadet / Demon Cleaner (14:51)
[03] III: Odyssey / Conan Troutman / N.O. / Whitewater (18:19)
[04] Lick Doo (0:58)

At discogs it looks like that:

   I (17:46)
1a         Gardenia       
1b         Asteroid       
1c         Supa Scoopa And Mighty Scoop

IMHO that doesn't depend on Discogs but on the way the tracks are implemented on the disc. If they have track markers, Discogs will show them as separate tracks and if it's a single track, only distinguished by subtitles on the sleeve, Discogs will have a single track in their db accordingly.

http://www.discogs.com/artist/Rosetta+%282%29 < When trying to find this artist it finds everything else, but not this.

Also when trying to find "Trap Them" it finds someone called Chris Maggio.

Why does this problem still exist ? (finding wrong artists even when the artist(s) I am trying to find are in the discogs' db.) It has been there for ages, the bug I mean.

Another bug: I was searching tags for Swedish Shining's V - Halmstad album. It found the artist and album, when I clicked the album V - Halmstad and started checking if everything was right the artist had been changed to "Toolbox".

Hi, I also have one question if I may please for answer:

Does exsist any list of letters (charachters / symbols / anything else that does't belong to english alphabet) from where I could see with which new letter (charachter,...) does the plugin changes old, so called ''not accepted by windows OS'', letter?

and is in the FAQ here. (See right at the bottom).

Quote from: joerenegade on 2010-07-29 23:07:55

Would there be any way to use index tracks for tagging? For example, see http:
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This can be extremely helpful when tagging multi-disc releases (ie. the cd name, if any, is always given as an index track).

Your proposal makes sense and I may implement it, but I want to know first if other people are interested in this way of handling index tracks.

Is there a way to combine the parsed info into a single tag? For example I like to have the copyright information stored like this: "Label Name - Catalogue #", which goes in the comment field of an id3 v1 tag and in the copyright field of an id3 v2 if the id3 v1 can't hold all the information. I think the best way would be to assign variable names to various parsed parts and then let the user combine those variables (+fixed text elements) as he pleases into various id3 fields. Something along the lines of:
parsed album artist = %1
parsed track artist = %a
parsed track title = %2
parsed album title = %3
parsed label = %4
parsed catalogue number = %5
parsed track number = %t
etc
Then you'd simply populate the various id3 fields with a default scheme and let the user edit it:
artist field: %1
track field: %2
...
comment: %4 - %5

I think this mapping system would be much more flexible and thus useful than the current one, where, as far as I can see, one simply decides whether to write a value or not and in what field to write it in. As an added bonus this same system could be used to rename files & folders, making it easy to construct even complex file/folder naming formats with all the variables and fixed text elements (ie [%5] %1 - %3\%t - %a - %2).

$if($or(%DISCOGS_RELEASE_NOTES%,%DISCOGS_RELEASE_CREDITS%),$if($and(%DISCOGS_RELEASE_NOTES%,%DISCOGS_RELEASE_CREDITS%),Release notes:$crlf()%DISCOGS_RELEASE_NOTES%$crlf()Release credits:$crlf()%DISCOGS_RELEASE_CREDITS%,$if(%DISCOGS_RELEASE_NOTES%,Release notes:$crlf()%DISCOGS_RELEASE_NOTES%,Release credits:$crlf()%DISCOGS_RELEASE_CREDITS%)),%comment%)

$if(%COMMENT%,$replace(%COMMENT%,;,$crlf()))

If you write tags and tries to repeat "Write tags ..." then the artist doesn't appear anymore in the search field.

This is the intended bahaviour: it fills the release id field instead and you just have to do "Next" to tag again.