Some people organize files in a completely different way.<br><br>I would suggest that this "feature" be optional, and only in effect if you have the metadata option "Guess album title based on filename" checkbox checked.<br>
<br>I really hate it when tags are written to my files by media players if all I am doing is importing and playing the songs. <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 1:40 AM, Mathias Dietrich <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dietrichmathias@gmail.com" target="_blank">dietrichmathias@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi,<br>
although it did not work in Amarok 2.7.1 and before, we now have the following<br>
behavior in Amarok-git, which is according to Matěj no bug and wanted:<br>
<br>
1. Collect multiple songs in one folder<br>
2. Ensure that the songs have no album-tag<br>
3. Start Amarok and import the collection<br>
<br>
Result:<br>
<br>
Although I specifically removed the album-tag from my files, Amarok uses the file<br>
path and guesses an album for all the files within this directory.<br>
<br>
E.g.: /home/user/Musik/FLAC/Pop/1970/<br>
<br>
-> creates the album "1970"<br>
<br>
Or /home/user/Musik/Acoustic/<br>
<br>
-> creates the album "Acoustic"<br>
<br>
For additional examples please have a look at: <a href="https://bugs.kde.org/322185" target="_blank">https://bugs.kde.org/322185</a><br>
<br>
As a power user, managing a large collection of songs, using Amarok. I propose<br>
to change this behavior before it gets released.<br>
<br>
<br>
To my mind this behavior makes no sense at all. I know other users that are<br>
the same opinion. My reasons are the following:<br>
<br>
1. If a user removes the album-tag using a tagging software, he wants to<br>
ensure that the track gets no album<br>
<br>
-> e.g.: I have a large collection of single songs from different albums, like<br>
always the best 3 songs of the album. Although I don't want hundreds of albums<br>
in my collection just because I have 1-3 songs of an album. So I remove the<br>
album-tag. If I would wanted the all the albums in my collection, I would<br>
simply keep the album-tag.<br>
<br>
-> Problem is, Amarok now starts guessing my albums according to my folder<br>
structure and I have to delete all guessed albums again within Amarok :(<br>
<br>
2. The "heuristic" to guess the album by file path is no good solution in two<br>
ways.<br>
<br>
Firstly, if I use a music player which is based and works with Tags, I just<br>
want to it to be based on tags. I just want to add my collection and don't<br>
necessary want to mess around with the file structure of my tracks.<br>
<br>
Secondly, the heuristic was broken in the past (<=2.7.1) and nobody wanted to<br>
have an album guessed by file path. Correct me if you find a feature request for<br>
this.<br>
<br>
At third, the heuristic in the moment is a bad solution: "take the folder<br>
containing all the files". If I throw a lot of files (>1000) within a folder,<br>
like "my music". All this files get the album "my music". It's no good solution<br>
at all.<br>
<br>
<br>
That is why I propose multiple solutions to improve situation:<br>
<br>
1. Remove this behavior at all, if it was no feature request. If someone<br>
removes the album-tag he does not want it. It's very unlikely that someone<br>
listens to music that, unintentionally, contains no tags.<br>
<br>
OR:<br>
<br>
2. Only guess something of no tags are available at all. This way it would be<br>
safe to assume that someone imported music without tags, because he does not<br>
know that tags exist, which is highly unlikely.<br>
<br>
<br>
So what is your opinion regarding this issue, from the developers point of<br>
view ?<br>
<br>
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