Feature #513
Option to disable ${artist} and ${album} falling back on folder names
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Description
In Audaciuos v3.6 that I installed from deb-multimedia.org [1], if a music file has no meta info, the name of its parent / grandparent folder will be used as ${artist} / ${album}.
For example, given the custom display string "${?title:${title}}${?artist: - ${artist}}", the file "/music/AVeryLongFolderName/FileWithoutMetaInfo - ArtistName.m4a" would be displayed as "FileWithoutMetaInfo - ArtistName - AVeryLongFolderName" in playlist, where " - AVeryLongFolderName" is undesirable. By contrast, Audacious v3.5.2 only shows "FileWithoutMetaInfo - ArtistName".
For those who really need the fallback behavior, you can add something like ${artistOrParentFolder} or ${albumOrGrandparentFolder}.
[1] http://www.deb-multimedia.org/dists/unstable/main/binary-amd64/package/audacious
History
#1
Updated by Zane Tu about 9 years ago
Updated by I forgot to mention that the issue happens in "Winamp Classic Interface". In "GTK interface", this issue is less annoying because "Artist" and "Album" have dedicated columns.
#2
Updated by John Lindgren about 9 years ago
Updated by - Tracker changed from Bug to Feature
- Subject changed from [Audaciuos v3.6] ${artist} and ${album} should not fall back on folder names. to Option to disable ${artist} and ${album} falling back on folder names
- Category set to libaudcore
The fallback behavior is intentional, hence not a bug, but we can add an option to disable it in the next version.
#3
Updated by John Lindgren almost 9 years ago
- Status changed from New to Closed
- Target version set to 3.7
- % Done changed from 0 to 100
