Propose: Change behaviour that 'Amarok guesses Album from Filepath if no album-tag is set"

[Alan Ezust]

Some people organize files in a completely different way.

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.

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.

On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 1:40 AM, Mathias Dietrich <dietrichmathias at gmail.com
> wrote:

> Hi,
> although it did not work in Amarok 2.7.1 and before, we now have the
> following
> behavior in Amarok-git, which is according to Matěj no bug and wanted:
>
> 1. Collect multiple songs in one folder
> 2. Ensure that the songs have no album-tag
> 3. Start Amarok and import the collection
>
> Result:
>
> Although I specifically removed the album-tag from my files, Amarok uses
> the file
> path and guesses an album for all the files within this directory.
>
> E.g.: /home/user/Musik/FLAC/Pop/1970/
>
> -> creates the album "1970"
>
> Or /home/user/Musik/Acoustic/
>
> -> creates the album "Acoustic"
>
> For additional examples please have a look at: https://bugs.kde.org/322185
>
> As a power user, managing a large collection of songs, using Amarok. I
> propose
> to change this behavior before it gets released.
>
>
> To my mind this behavior makes no sense at all. I know other users that are
> the same opinion. My reasons are the following:
>
> 1. If a user removes the album-tag using a tagging software, he wants to
> ensure that the track gets no album
>
> -> e.g.: I have a large collection of single songs from different albums,
> like
> always the best 3 songs of the album. Although I don't want hundreds of
> albums
> in my collection just because I have 1-3 songs of an album. So I remove the
> album-tag. If I would wanted the all the albums in my collection, I would
> simply keep the album-tag.
>
> -> Problem is, Amarok now starts guessing my albums according to my folder
> structure and I have to delete all guessed albums again within Amarok :(
>
> 2. The "heuristic" to guess the album by file path is no good solution in
> two
> ways.
>
> Firstly, if I use a music player which is based and works with Tags, I just
> want to it to be based on tags. I just want to add my collection and don't
> necessary want to mess around with the file structure of my tracks.
>
> Secondly, the heuristic was broken in the past (<=2.7.1) and nobody wanted
> to
> have an album guessed by file path. Correct me if you find a feature
> request for
> this.
>
> At third, the heuristic in the moment is a bad solution: "take the folder
> containing all the files". If I throw a lot of files (>1000) within a
> folder,
> like "my music". All this files get the album "my music". It's no good
> solution
> at all.
>
>
> That is why I propose multiple solutions to improve situation:
>
> 1. Remove this behavior at all, if it was no feature request. If someone
> removes the album-tag he does not want it. It's very unlikely that someone
> listens to music that, unintentionally, contains no tags.
>
> OR:
>
> 2. Only guess something of no tags are available at all. This way it would
> be
> safe to assume that someone imported music without tags, because he does
> not
> know that tags exist, which is highly unlikely.
>
>
> So what is your opinion regarding this issue, from the developers point of
> view ?
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
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