qualitycontrol wrote:mine goes...(I'm quite anal with my collection) ':o'
for the root:
Z:\My Music\[ Albums ]
Z:\My Music\[ Tracks ]
then:
for full albums, i use:
[ Albums ]\AlbumArtist\AlbumTitle\AlbumArtist - AlbumTitle - TrackNumber - TrackArtist - TrackName.ext
this goes well with all types of albums (or at least the ones i have)
this way OST's and Compilations, album artist just becomes 'Original Motion Picture Soundtrack' or 'Various Artists'
for incomplete albums or singles..
[ Tracks ]\AlbumArtist - AlbumTitle - TrackNumber - TrackArtist - TrackName.ext
I keep all playlists, lyrics, album art and album reviews on individual folders, although the last three are already embedded on the mp3's, thery're just for backup in case some program messes up my tags. And I use the long filename format because some players cant read tags and just rely on filenames for sorting... also for easy fixing of corrupted tags.
...I also have a folder for [ Unprocessed ] mp3's where I haven't got to fixing their tags and filenames yet.
question,
there are scripts/etc that exist to display list of albums,
1 what ones do you know off?
2 it appears that most of those scripts work by checking MAX track# against number of tracks and finding non-sequential track#
3 what if you took the track#s that were missing looked up the Album to see if what the names of the missing track#s were and search MM database for matches,
populate a list/combo box for each track listing similar to the autotag shows the tracklistings containing the names of the matchs in database (locking the matched tracks IE
ie
TRACK1 <box>
TRACK2 (locked box or text)
..
track20 <box>
<box> contents are unknown as yet other than file name, maybe year???
incase of multiple matches (ie Best of Bowie (2002),
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Best_of_Bowie
you could offer each albums track name, or a separate dropbox selecting the album version (ala autotag from web)
now the question what to do with the correct list, there a numerous possibilities to be discussed later but to keep this thread on topic purhaps it should create new files (yes actually create duplicates) within a folder structure containing AlbumName and changing the tags??
anybody else have any ideas?
EDIT:
1) it appears Triximoto is now offline
2) your "Just List Albums 1.8" for instance included Total # of tracks/highest track#
3) it appears BEXs Tagging inconsistancies script idendifies what tracks are missing - we just need a way to select "replacement tracks"
4) i suggest for anything like this to work a new folder structure is created "Artificially Created ALBUMS"\<ALBUMARTIST>\<ALBUM>\<title> to avoid confusion with existing files being retagged duplicates could later be handled by existing scripts to users preferance