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bubbleguuum

Nov 26 2006, 15:58

Features:

- tag files using discog 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: 1.15
Download Plugin
Download code source (Unpack into foobar2000 SDK directory, open foo_discogs.sln, compile)

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 depency, 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.

Tags won't be written if the option "ID3v2 Writer Compatibility Mode" is enable in your fb2k conf

CODE

1.15
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- fix: "move the at begginning" setting was not honored in all credit tags + other artists field (members, anvs, aliases, groups) and numeric suffix found in artist names where not removed for those tags.
- add: new tags DISCOGS_RELEASE_CREDITS_MULTI and DISCOGS_TRACK_CREDITS_MULTI store release and track credits as a multi-value tag
- chg: by default "Label" is mapped to tag PUBLISHER and "Remix track credit" is mapped to REMIXED BY, so foobar writes those tags in the dedicated ID3 frame (see http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?ti...D3_Tag_Mapping)
- source code release


1.14
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- recompiled against the latest SDK so it can run using foobar 0.9.6 or above under Windows Vista
- chg: removed foo_custominfo support as it is a deprecated component
- chg: artist art directory now allow tagz syntax allowing to store artist art in the release directory (instead of a single unique directory)

1.13
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+ add: release dialog: horizontal scrollbars in  discogs track list and local file list
+ add: update album/artist art dialog now has settings that overrides those of the configuration tab to force retrieval of art.
This is convenient when art retrieval is always disabled at tag time, and later updated.
+ add:  add tag DISCOGS_ARTIST_MULTI (same as Artist, but as a multi-value tag to separate artists, useful with <%DISCOGS_ARTIST_MULTI%>) and 
DISCOGS_ALBUM_ARTIST_MULTI (same as Album Artist, but as a multi-value tag to separate artists. Contrary to Album Artist it always has a value). See discussion
with Dave_Scream (http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=50523&st=425#)
+ chg: preferences: now artist art can be stored in the release directory (using tagz for the directory). filenames still use artist id.
+ chg: preferences: removed outdated HTML fetch method
+ chg: find release dialog: if a searched artist is an ANV, display all of it's ANVs and non-ANVs releases. Try it with trentemoeller!
+ chg: catch file io exceptions with a meaningful message in the console
+ chg: "overwrite existing files" is only possible for artist art, as it is problematic for artist art
+ fix: DISCOGS_TRACK_CREDITS: earch role is separated by ; instead of \n
+ fix: find release dialog: double-clicking on artist name or release to launch the related Discogs www page now always work
+ fix: all available artist art was always fetched even if "fetch all available art" was unchecked


1.12
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+ fix: editing a tag mapping could attribute it to the wrong discogs info
+ fix: incomplete url escaping was producing XML parse error (release 239279)
+ fix: %DISCOGS_ARTIST_ID% is now fetched and written with the XML API
+ chg: retrieve art using XML API urls instead of old HTML method (faster)
+ fix: small art preview is now displayed when using the XML API
+ fix: artist art directory is created if it does not exist
+ chg: subtracks are now part of the discogs track listing if they have some length (that mean they are real tracks, instead of separators)
 (ex: release 891540, subtracks are skipped)
+ fix: %DISCOGS_CREDIT_FEATURING%, %DISCOGS_CREDIT_VOCALS%, %DISCOGS_CREDIT_REMIX% now handle multiples credits (ex: release 1085782, track 11)
+ add: value written for %ALBUM_ARTIST% when release is a compilation is now configurable (default: "Various Artist")

1.11
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- fix crashes for some buggy releases with empty fields (notes etc, ex : 812575), should no more
crash with any empty field.
- better detection of VINYLTRACK, now based on format (ex : 812575)
- added %DISCOGS_TRACK_POSITION% : this is the unmodified position field in front of track names as they appear in the HTML pages.
- fix: no more crashes for some buggy release with tracks from several artist but no join fields (ex: 1011711)
- fix XML parse error for release with place holder artists (ex: 937961)

1.10
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- use discogs XML API with new tags supported. HTML parsing method still available in configuration/network
- custom genre/styles of any length can be entered in release dialog combo boxes


1.02
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- fixes html parse error with placeholder artists for good (ex: release 204297)
- fix missing year in release list
- add horizontal scrollbar in release list to see long release names.

1.01
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- fix html parse errors due to small discogs html changes
- fix parse errors with tracklisting containing placeholder artist such as "No Artist" or "Various" (such as releases 204297
or 336752)
- fix a crash with this release: 891416 (don't remember the cause)


1.0
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- add: back button on the release dialog, return to find release dialog
- fix: crash when parsing some releases such as 743691 with disc titles in the tracklisting. (thx Hivemind)
- fix: crash when parsing buggy artist pages with empty "Members:" section. Hey Bob Sinclar smile.gif. (thx stampgevaar)

mquander

Nov 26 2006, 16:01

May I be the first one to extend my great thanks for this plugin. I'll be sure to post any relevant feedback.

mquander

Nov 26 2006, 16:26

First impressions:

Easy problem: Perhaps add the album release format (shown as "format" on discogs page) as a writeable tag?

Medium problem: When I tag vinyl albums, I like to put their side/track vinyl tracknumbers in a "VINYLTRACK" field, as I know other people do, and I order the "TRACKNUMBER" field like anyone else would. For example, a five-song 12" might look like

Track 1: VINYLTRACK = A1, TRACKNUMBER = 1
Track 2: VINYLTRACK = A2, TRACKNUMBER = 2
Track 3: VINYLTRACK = B1, TRACKNUMBER = 3
Track 4: VINYLTRACK = B2, TRACKNUMBER = 4
Track 5: VINYLTRACK = B3, TRACKNUMBER = 5

Supporting this behavior natively somehow would be awesome.

(Edit: Also, setting TOTALTRACKS would be nice. I'm just hoping it can get to the point where I can enter the release ID and get my stuff tagged how I like it without having to go into properties afterward and muck around.)

bubbleguuum

Nov 26 2006, 16:34

QUOTE(mquander @ Nov 26 2006, 23:26)

First impressions:

Easy problem: Perhaps add the album release format (shown as "format" on discogs page) as a writeable tag?

Medium problem: When I tag vinyl albums, I like to put their side/track vinyl tracknumbers in a "VINYLTRACK" field, as I know other people do, and I order the "TRACKNUMBER" field like anyone else would. For example, a five-song 12" might look like

Track 1: VINYLTRACK = A1, TRACKNUMBER = 1
Track 2: VINYLTRACK = A2, TRACKNUMBER = 2
Track 3: VINYLTRACK = B1, TRACKNUMBER = 3
Track 4: VINYLTRACK = B2, TRACKNUMBER = 4
Track 5: VINYLTRACK = B3, TRACKNUMBER = 5

Supporting this behavior natively somehow would be awesome.

Both of them are easy to do so good candiate for the next version. In fact I already retrieve the "Format" info but just forgot to expose it ! Damn

.

pawls

Nov 26 2006, 17:05

Woho! Let´s try it out.
I´ll report my thoughts later

alphaex32

Nov 26 2006, 18:40

Thank you so much for this. Could you add support for the styles, notes, and composer info? It seems like style and genre info are being combined.

saberrider

Nov 26 2006, 18:42

Sounds great. But I guess I'll wait for custominfo support.

eejadx

Nov 26 2006, 19:05

Thanks, great component.
One small bug with files length higher than ten minutes. Looks like foo_discogs adds the length at the end of %title% field.

Release ID: 507593.

bubbleguuum

Nov 27 2006, 06:20

QUOTE(alphaex32 @ Nov 27 2006, 01:40)

Thank you so much for this. Could you add support for the styles, notes, and composer info? It seems like style and genre info are being combined.

Discogs genre is ignored because I thought it was too vague (Electronic, ...). Style is used instead because more precise. If people want it I can enable Discogs Genre again.
As for note composer info, we'll see later when the parser will be more robust but I wish discogs would propose a decent API for this - instead of parsing generated HTML.

QUOTE(eejadx @ Nov 27 2006, 02:05)

Thanks, great component.
One small bug with files length higher than ten minutes. Looks like foo_discogs adds the length at the end of %title% field.

Release ID: 507593.

Thanks for spotting this one!

alphaex32

Nov 27 2006, 07:50

Id like to have genre enabled, if its not too much trouble

eejadx

Nov 27 2006, 08:00

QUOTE(alphaex32 @ Nov 27 2006, 08:50)

Id like to have genre enabled, if its not too much trouble

Id like that too.

stampgevaar

Nov 27 2006, 08:04

this is a very nice idea but is it also possible if there are various artist names to have the right artist name for every song and not only a album artist or I'm I overlooking something.

and thanks btw great plugin saves me a lot of work

edit: I see this happens when the album artist is various artists, can you maybe make it possible to switch the album artist thing off for some albums because the info isn't always correct/incomplete so that the artists next to the song are taken (on discogs).

sorry for the bad english hope I'm a bit understandable

for example
http://www.discogs.com/release/605280

when I tag this vinyl the artist is partyraiser by all the songs while as you can see this is not really the case so a option to chose between an album artist or to have them seperately or both would be usefull.

but it's just a suggestion, thanks in advance

zachastrife

Nov 27 2006, 08:59

How does this do with releases with multiple discs?
I use the %discnumber% tag...

And when handling many directories (which is how i handle multiple discs) it should sort the files with the full path instead of the filename (making it easier to match files without needing to use the move function over and over again).

_eclectic_

Nov 27 2006, 10:23

Getting the following message upon startup:

Failed to load DLL: foo_discogs.dll
Reason: This component is missing a required dependency, or was made for different version of foobar2000.

I do have libcurl.dll in the foobar2000 root (didn't get it from your link, already had it), and am running foobar v0.9.4.1. Any idea what is wrong? libcurl.dll is version 7.15.1.

bubbleguuum

Nov 27 2006, 12:42

QUOTE(stampgevaar @ Nov 27 2006, 15:04)

this is a very nice idea but is it also possible if there are various artist names to have the right artist name for every song and not only a album artist or I'm I overlooking something.

and thanks btw great plugin saves me a lot of work

edit: I see this happens when the album artist is various artists, can you maybe make it possible to switch the album artist thing off for some albums because the info isn't always correct/incomplete so that the artists next to the song are taken (on discogs).

sorry for the bad english hope I'm a bit understandable

for example
http://www.discogs.com/release/605280

when I tag this vinyl the artist is partyraiser by all the songs while as you can see this is not really the case so a option to chose between an album artist or to have them seperately or both would be usefull.

but it's just a suggestion, thanks in advance

This is a known problem and will be corrected : releases such as this that have two artists are not parsed correctly yet

pawls

Nov 27 2006, 12:43

I think Tracknumber and Vinylnumber should be separated. As someone suggested earlier. Also %total tracks% should be filled I think. Works great with the few releases I have tried!

With foo_custominfo support it will be even better!

bubbleguuum

Nov 27 2006, 12:46

QUOTE(zachastrife @ Nov 27 2006, 15:59)

How does this do with releases with multiple discs?
I use the %discnumber% tag...

And when handling many directories (which is how i handle multiple discs) it should sort the files with the full path instead of the filename (making it easier to match files without needing to use the move function over and over again).

good ideas here, with some work the %discnumber% tag could be autodetected

QUOTE(_eclectic_ @ Nov 27 2006, 17:23)

Getting the following message upon startup:

Failed to load DLL: foo_discogs.dll
Reason: This component is missing a required dependency, or was made for different version of foobar2000.

I do have libcurl.dll in the foobar2000 root (didn't get it from your link, already had it), and am running foobar v0.9.4.1. Any idea what is wrong? libcurl.dll is version 7.15.1.

I din't tried it with 0.9.4.1 but it should be compatible...the problem is probably libcurl. Did you tried to replace your existing libcurl with the one linked in the first post to see if it works ?

metal_termite

Nov 27 2006, 12:58

Yay, you rule.

Add support for allmusic.com too!

pawls

Nov 27 2006, 13:01

One more thing: please add keyboard shortcuts in some future release.

stampgevaar

Nov 27 2006, 14:08

QUOTE(bubbleguuum @ Nov 27 2006, 19:42)

QUOTE(stampgevaar @ Nov 27 2006, 15:04)

this is a very nice idea but is it also possible if there are various artist names to have the right artist name for every song and not only a album artist or I'm I overlooking something.

and thanks btw great plugin saves me a lot of work

edit: I see this happens when the album artist is various artists, can you maybe make it possible to switch the album artist thing off for some albums because the info isn't always correct/incomplete so that the artists next to the song are taken (on discogs).

sorry for the bad english hope I'm a bit understandable

for example
http://www.discogs.com/release/605280

when I tag this vinyl the artist is partyraiser by all the songs while as you can see this is not really the case so a option to chose between an album artist or to have them seperately or both would be usefull.

but it's just a suggestion, thanks in advance

This is a known problem and will be corrected : releases such as this that have two artists are not parsed correctly yet

ok thanks mate

nilsHaus

Nov 27 2006, 14:22

QUOTE(eejadx @ Nov 27 2006, 09:00)

QUOTE(alphaex32 @ Nov 27 2006, 08:50)

Id like to have genre enabled, if its not too much trouble

Id like that too.

Why not have this as an option?

Also, what does libcurl.dll do?

Testing it right now, some things have popped up.

You should test this with all sorts of files, I'm trying to rename a .flac file (P.U.L.S.E. two discs) and its stuck halfway right now, I dunno if its gonna work out eventually...
But this is a .flac image, with embedded cuesheet I think.
edit:Yah, its hanging up hardcore, if you could look into that.

Also, are there any plans for it to find the number by itself, or within foobar bitte?

edit 2:What is the DISCOGS_PUBLISHER tag? Is it impossible to take that out?

TheTravis

Nov 27 2006, 15:25

Thanks for this great plugin! I just tagged some albums which were missing tracknumbers

_eclectic_

Nov 27 2006, 16:24

QUOTE

Failed to load DLL: foo_discogs.dll
Reason: This component is missing a required dependency, or was made for different version of foobar2000.

I do have libcurl.dll in the foobar2000 root (didn't get it from your link, already had it), and am running foobar v0.9.4.1. Any idea what is wrong? libcurl.dll is version 7.15.1.

QUOTE

I din't tried it with 0.9.4.1 but it should be compatible...the problem is probably libcurl. Did you tried to replace your existing libcurl with the one linked in the first post to see if it works ?

Yes it does work with the libcurl.dll you reference.
However, I compared your libcurl.dll to the one I am using. The one I have has a version and a date and references The cURL library, http://curl.haxx.se/.

The one you are recommended has no Properties associated with it, is half the size 94KB vs. 172KB, and is dated 1/2/2004 vs 2/26/2006 for the version I have.

Thus I think I am using a more recent version of the .dll. Perhaps it would be worthwhile for you to consider utilizing the more recent version of libcurl.dll in this module. I know you have plenty to do, and this appears to be a great plugin, but there must be significant differences in the two which might express itself with some other plugin (or whatever required the libcurl.dll in the first place).

Thanks!

bubbleguuum

Nov 27 2006, 16:48

QUOTE(nilsHaus @ Nov 27 2006, 21:22)

QUOTE(eejadx @ Nov 27 2006, 09:00)

QUOTE(alphaex32 @ Nov 27 2006, 08:50)

Id like to have genre enabled, if its not too much trouble

Id like that too.

QUOTE

Why not have this as an option?

this will be in next version

QUOTE

Also, what does libcurl.dll do?

it retrieve html pages

QUOTE

Testing it right now, some things have popped up.

You should test this with all sorts of files, I'mibe in other softwa trying to rename a .flac file (P.U.L.S.E. two discs) and its stuck halfway right now, I dunno if its gonna work out eventually...
But this is a .flac image, with embedded cuesheet I think.
edit:Yah, its hanging up hardcore, if you could look into that.

I've tried with some flacs of mine, no hang. What do you mean by flac image? a single flac containing all tracks ?

QUOTE

Also, are there any plans for it to find the number by itself, or within foobar bitte?

Not in the immediate future as I tried a few very well done interface to what you describe in other software and it's almost always faster and less error prone done manually. Add to that the fact discogs does not facilitate search.

QUOTE(_eclectic_ @ Nov 27 2006, 23:24)

Thus I think I am using a more recent version of the .dll. Perhaps it would be worthwhile for you to consider utilizing the more recent version of libcurl.dll in this module. I know you have plenty to do, and this appears to be a great plugin, but there must be significant differences in the two which might express itself with some other plugin (or whatever required the libcurl.dll in the first place).

Thanks!

yup, will use the latest version!

nilsHaus

Nov 28 2006, 14:09

QUOTE(bubbleguuum @ Nov 27 2006, 17:48)

I've tried with some flacs of mine, no hang. What do you mean by flac image? a single flac containing all tracks ?

Yup, exactly.

mquander

Nov 28 2006, 20:29

I'd just like to note this album, on which the catalog number appears to be "GSL 39 CD" but in the HTML there are actually two spaces - making it get read by the tagger as "GSL 39 CD." Anyone notice any more discogs errors like that?

EDIT: Yep, a lot of catalog numbers suffer from the extra-spaces disease. Can we possibly get a workaround for this?

There are also some releases with multiple labels; if those worked, it would be amazing. (e.g.)

mquander

Nov 29 2006, 03:24

The plugin errors out when looking up tags for http://www.discogs.com/release/236971.

bubbleguuum

Nov 29 2006, 06:59

QUOTE(mquander @ Nov 29 2006, 10:24)

The plugin errors out when looking up tags for http://www.discogs.com/release/236971.

Yes, it barf because there is two artists and it's not supported yet.
Hopefully I'll rewrite the parser this week end to make it much more robust and handle the 5% of problematic cases.

I'll try to release a new version early next week

QUOTE(mquander @ Nov 29 2006, 03:29)

I'd just like to note this album, on which the catalog number appears to be "GSL 39 CD" but in the HTML there are actually two spaces - making it get read by the tagger as "GSL 39 CD." Anyone notice any more discogs errors like that?

EDIT: Yep, a lot of catalog numbers suffer from the extra-spaces disease. Can we possibly get a workaround for this?

There are also some releases with multiple labels; if those worked, it would be amazing. (e.g.)

cat # with multiple spaces: this can be checked and fixed, however it's really discogs data that is faulty here.

multiple label: will be supported with the new parser

bubbleguuum

Dec 2 2006, 20:57

Version 0.2 is OUT. See first post for changelog & details. Feedback welcome as usual !
It's been some effort but well worth it!

In particular, stress the parser, trying all kind of releases, and if it crashes or don't produce correct data let me know!

alphaex32

Dec 2 2006, 23:08

Thank you so much for this

I'd still like to see genre and style separately mapped. Maybe there could be an option to combine or separate them?

Decuman

Dec 3 2006, 01:17

Isn't it for v.0.9.4.2?
I got this message:

Failed to load DLL: foo_discogs.dll
Reason: This component is missing a required dependency, or was made for different version of foobar2000.

QUOTE(bubbleguuum @ Dec 3 2006, 14:57)

Version 0.2 is OUT. See first post for changelog & details. Feedback welcome as usual !
It's been some effort but well worth it!

In particular, stress the parser, trying all kind of releases, and if it crashes or don't produce correct data let me know!

roentgen

Dec 3 2006, 01:59

2Decuman
Check again the first post of this thread. You'll need some additional dlls.

Decuman

Dec 3 2006, 04:15

Oh, yeah. My bad...
I just didn't notice it is ZIP archive and copied it to foobar's folder as is.
It works now! Thanks!!!

QUOTE(roentgen @ Dec 3 2006, 19:59)

2Decuman
Check again the first post of this thread. You'll need some additional dlls.

bubbleguuum

Dec 3 2006, 10:56

0.21 released ! this version add basic album art support. Art file is put in the release directory, always named album_art.jpg and you can store either the low res or hi res version of the art.

Ronny Pries

Dec 3 2006, 11:51

wicked!!! ! !! !!!!

stampgevaar

Dec 3 2006, 12:07

nice work mate really you just saved me a lot of work

hiscores

Dec 3 2006, 12:27

Bubbleguuum: you're my hero. This is AMAZING.

hiscores

Dec 3 2006, 12:39

One small suggestion: it'd be really nice to have an option to just get album art, without any of the tags. I've got a bunch of vinyl entries already tagged according to a certain system that I'd love to be able to go back and get artwork for...

hotzenpl0tz

Dec 3 2006, 12:47

You probably knew something like this would be requested, but here goes regardless *g* :

Let the user specify the name and location of the saved album art file, I would love to be able to do something like: d:\cover art\%artist% - %album%.png .
I always keep my album art in its own folder, because foobar won't let me move those files with it's file rename/move tool.

bubbleguuum

Dec 3 2006, 12:55

QUOTE(hiscores @ Dec 3 2006, 19:39)

One small suggestion: it'd be really nice to have an option to just get album art, without any of the tags. I've got a bunch of vinyl entries already tagged according to a certain system that I'd love to be able to go back and get artwork for...

Glad you like the plugin

. In a future version it'll be possible to batch process releases tagged with foo_discogs and retrieve missing art automaticcally
For your already tagged collection, if you didn't use foo_discogs you can still retrieve only album art by disabling write on all tags in mappings. Well almost becase ALBUM ARTIST and COMPILATION are always written for now

QUOTE(hotzenpl0tz @ Dec 3 2006, 19:47)

You probably knew something like this would be requested, but here goes regardless *g* :

Let the user specify the name and location of the saved album art file, I would love to be able to do something like: d:\cover art\%artist% - %album%.png .
I always keep my album art in its own folder, because foobar won't let me move those files with it's file rename/move tool.

yes saw that coming

. Album art will be of course more parametrable

hiscores

Dec 3 2006, 14:29

QUOTE

In a future version it'll be possible to batch process releases tagged with foo_discogs and retrieve missing art automaticcally

QUOTE

For your already tagged collection, if you didn't use foo_discogs you can still retrieve only album art by disabling write on all tags in mappings. Well almost becase ALBUM ARTIST and COMPILATION are always written for now

Thanks for the quick reply, BG. I anticipated that you'd suggest turning the tag mappings off; the problem with that is that I use foo_discogs simultaneously with albums that just need art and albums that need tags. It'd be nice to have a quick toggle option that says 'Just get artwork' to save the time of having to constantly go into the menu and deselect all the field mappings. But in the grand scheme of things, this is a pretty minor quibble -- foo_discogs is fantastic otherwise.

orchid

Dec 5 2006, 10:44

Hi and thanks for great plugin

QUOTE(alphaex32 @ Dec 3 2006, 07:08)

I'd still like to see genre and style separately mapped. Maybe there could be an option to combine or separate them?

I second this. Genres and styles are listed separately for a reason and having two tags makes sorting more efficient. Also it would be great to be able to combine a variety of tags into one (eg, 'Country' and 'Catalog #' into %comment% separated by comma)

AntiLynd

Dec 5 2006, 11:10

Thanks for this awesome plugin! I really love it. As a matter of fact, I've started thinking about using it on a major part of my collection in order to add label info and catalog numbers to the files (which I find really helpful in certain genres). But in order to do something like that, I guess it would be sweet if foo_discogs was able to automatically find the Discogs release number (shouldn't be a difficult if %artist% and %album% are present). I mean, it's not a problem to look up a release number or two on the web once in a while*, but imagine doing this for like dozens of albums...

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*) pretty comfy actually with a discogs search field in Firefox's toolbar

stampgevaar

Dec 5 2006, 11:44

that's a fact and also make the fields editable like the tracknumber cause some info on discogs isn't 100 procent correct.
http://www.discogs.com/release/801092 if you see this one there's still a mistake in the numbering. it keeps going like one cd while it are 2cd's and sometimes there type faults in the title or artist tags. (or I'm I doing something wrong?)
It would be nice to edit them directly in stead of have to open a seperate program to do this. + have the option to save the album art somewhere else cause it always saves in cd1 but i like to have it in the parent folder so when I open cd2 I can also see the album art. But this is just a idea nothing that important.

bubbleguuum

Dec 5 2006, 12:56

QUOTE(stampgevaar @ Dec 5 2006, 18:44)

that's a fact and also make the fields editable like the tracknumber cause some info on discogs isn't 100 procent correct.
http://www.discogs.com/release/801092 if you see this one there's still a mistake in the numbering. it keeps going like one cd while it are 2cd's
[url]

That's exactly what's the "Multi-disc release" panel is for. If you didn't, have a look at the first post, end of the 0.20 change log, I explain how to use it on such releases. The renumber button will renumber the tracks.

QUOTE

and sometimes there type faults in the title or artist tags. (or I'm I doing something wrong?)

tell me which URL produce faults so I can check it the typos are in discog data or if it's the parser.

QUOTE

It would be nice to edit them directly in stead of have to open a seperate program to do this. + have the option to save the album art somewhere else cause it always saves in cd1 but i like to have it in the parent folder so when I open cd2 I can also see the album art. But this is just a idea nothing that important.

Album art will be more configurable in future version, you'll be able to specify the directory and filename format. And my development version already fetch all art available (possibly several files) if you tell so

stampgevaar

Dec 5 2006, 13:00

It's not the parser for the typos I'm sure, if I notice it again I will post but this is not often that it happens but it was just a suggestion I don't know much about coding so I don't know if it's a lot of work but it was just a idea I was playing with.

And thanks for explaining the multi disc thing

bubbleguuum

Dec 5 2006, 13:04

QUOTE(orchid @ Dec 5 2006, 17:44)

Hi and thanks for great plugin

QUOTE(alphaex32 @ Dec 3 2006, 07:08)

I'd still like to see genre and style separately mapped. Maybe there could be an option to combine or separate them?

I second this. Genres and styles are listed separately for a reason and having two tags makes sorting more efficient. Also it would be great to be able to combine a variety of tags into one (eg, 'Country' and 'Catalog #' into %comment% separated by comma)

In next version genre and style will be separated, and "Format" will be available (forgot about it in fact in 0.20).

Now I need your input on how I should fill the genre combo box. For my own need, I would only fill it with "Style" as Genre is too general for me (I don't need to know 90% of my collection is Electronic).

Maybe a settings to map the combo box to "Style", "Genre" or "Style and Genre" ?

It would have benn more simple for me if Discogs never did the distinction between style and genre...

alphaex32

Dec 5 2006, 13:22

Personally, I would just fill the "style" tag with styles and the "genre" tag with genre.

stampgevaar

Dec 6 2006, 14:13

I was thinking, if you make the album covers download automatically in the future versions like you said can you also make it possible to update all the tags of all the albums tagged with your plugin with one touch of a button. Cause I don't really know if the updating now goes automatically if you play a song but it's quite timetaking to go and look every time when a thing has changed on a album or when a cover has come available on discogs so a button to update all in once should be nice. and maybe make it possible to just type the whole url in the field that also goes a bit quicker. I mean when I'm tagging 1500 albums selecting the code everytime gets a bit annoying. I was also thinking of tagging all my music with your plugin but I don't have that much time for checking for new covers etc.that's why...

bubbleguuum

Dec 6 2006, 16:35

QUOTE(stampgevaar @ Dec 6 2006, 21:13)

I was thinking, if you make the album covers download automatically in the future versions like you said can you also make it possible to update all the tags of all the albums tagged with your plugin with one touch of a button. Cause I don't really know if the updating now goes automatically if you play a song but it's quite timetaking to go and look every time when a thing has changed on a album or when a cover has come available on discogs so a button to update all in once should be nice. and maybe make it possible to just type the whole url in the field that also goes a bit quicker. I mean when I'm tagging 1500 albums selecting the code everytime gets a bit annoying. I was also thinking of tagging all my music with your plugin but I don't have that much time for checking for new covers etc.that's why...

You're going to be happy because I just added batch album art update (work on tagged releases with foo_discogs). You can update art on:

- releases that have no art yet because you didn't fetch art at tagging time or there was no art on discogs at that time
- all releases, whether they already have art or not.

Also you can select if you want to retrieve all available art (sometimes there's something like 3 or 4 scans availables) or only the first picture.

As for tag update you can already do it via discogs->update tags. It will update all tags that have update (and write) checked in "edit tag mappings".

Also when you select discogs->write tags, the release id will be fill for you if you previously tagged the release with foo_discogs provided you didn't disable write on "release id link" in tag mappings (not recommended)