foo_discogs, Tags files with information from Discogs Options

[bubbleguuum]

Features:

- tag files using discogs data. Retrieve more info than most taggers. Goes to extra length to make sure retrieve data is correct and well formatted
- flexible tag mapping allows you to write only what you want where you want
- use of meta data in tags to display artist / label / release discogs www page
- able to later update specified tags (useful to update rating)


current version: 1.31
Download foo_discogs 1.31
Documentation (thanks Bachi-Bouzouk)

find release dialog screenshot (v0.90)
release dialog screenshot (v0.90)
screenshot illustrating use of discogs data

GdiPlus.dll is a dependency, however if you use some recent version of Windows you already have it.
If you're using fb2k under wine (Linux) you'll need to copy GdiPlus.dll in fb2k root directory.

This post has been edited by bubbleguuum: Jun 7 2013, 22:14

[orchid]

Any concrete example of situation you'd like to edit discogs data ?

Main reason would be this new ANV system (good example http://www.discogs.com/release/338567). A variety of names for same artist messes up searches, foo_browse etc. Also Discogs is full of typos but they don't bother me that much, might someone else.

Can you explain more, I did not understand

Sorry never mind. Didn't notice adding discogs menu commands to buttons is already possible

[bubbleguuum]

Main reason would be this new ANV system (good example http://www.discogs.com/release/338567). A variety of names for same artist messes up searches, foo_browse etc. Also Discogs is full of typos but they don't bother me that much, might someone else.

The parser alerady detects ANV to discard "*" appended to them, although I don't make use of this info for anything else. What I thought some time ago and would be could in the case of the artist being an ANV, let the user choose between the ANV or the Non-ANV name of the artist. Even a configuration settings to automaticcaly use the non-ANV artist name could be done. Anyway there's no harm to make the fields editable (except track names) and i'll think about it.

Now I have a question for you people. If foo_discogs could use foo_custominfo to store tags (customizable per tag) would you use that ? for which use scenario and which tags ?
I see more iconvenient to storing using foo_custominfo, especially because it's usable only with foobar and if you loose the database you loose the tags

Your parser chokes on this, but I don't blame it.

nice find! no wonder the parser goes berserk!

This post has been edited by bubbleguuum: Dec 11 2006, 19:55

[mquander]

This doesn't seem to get an "Album Artist" tag. Shouldn't it? (Nevermind that the artists are all fake aliases of Bogdan anyway.)

[bubbleguuum]

This doesn't seem to get an "Album Artist" tag. Shouldn't it? (Nevermind that the artists are all fake aliases of Bogdan anyway.)

Fixed in upcoming version. Actually you have Album Artist written if the main artist is made of several artists, or if Album="Various" or if in the tracklisting there's at least a track with two artists. This is not the case for this release so the last test is more like "has a least a track with *one* artist"

This post has been edited by bubbleguuum: Dec 11 2006, 21:52