Discogs requests

[Robby Stephenson]

On Sat, Feb 1, 2025 at 5:13 PM Robby Stephenson <robby at periapsis.org> wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 1, 2025 at 12:22 PM Jared Breland <jbreland at legroom.net>
> wrote:
>
>> 1. You introduced a change to split discs into different tracklists, as
>> reported in bug 479503.  This is a neat feature, and something I struggled
>> with as I began cataloging, but at this point I have over 1300 albums
>> cataloged the "old" way, with all tracks in a single list (I use a comment
>> field to note which tracks belong to which discs).  Converting all of my
>> old albums to the new format is infeasible at this point, and I'd really
>> prefer not to change the format for newer albums, resulting in the extra
>> disc tracklists that are present but empty on all of my other albums
>> (including all of my old multi-disc albums).
>>
>> This is definitely a useful feature and one I would've used if I was just
>> starting, but would it be possible to add an option to choose whether you
>> *want* to split your albums into separate track lists or continue using
>> the old single-list format?  That way anyone getting started can leverage
>> the new capability, and users with large existing collections can continue
>> maintaining them without a significant change.
>>
>
> Thanks for that feedback. I hadn't thought about existing collections all
> that much. I don't think it would be too hard to add an option to do as you
> suggest. I'll see what I can do.
>

OK, I've added an option to revert to the previous behavior, but I'm not
going to expose it in the UI to avoid clutter. Instead, you'll need to edit
the config file directly and add a line to the Discogs group
     Split Tracks By Disc=false

This can be done via the command-line like so:
1. Note how many data sources you have
$ kreadconfig6 --file tellicorc --key "Sources Count" --group "Data Sources"
2. Then loop over all of them to find the Discogs group (replace X with the
number of sources)
$ for i in $(seq 0 X); do echo -n "$i: "; kreadconfig6 --file tellicorc
--key Name --group "Data Source $i"; done
3. Then find the number of the Discogs group (replace X with the number),
and update the setting
$ kwriteconfig6 --file tellicorc --group "Data Source X" --key "Split
Tracks By Disc" false

Replace kreadconfig6 with kreadconfig5, if you're still using Qt5. If
you're not comfortable with the command line, I apologize, but I just
didn't want to add another checkbox in the graphical settings. This setting
can be used for Discogs, Musicbrainz, or iTunes. Let me know if any of that
is unclear or you have questions.

This will be in version 4.1.1 that I hope to have released within a week or
so. Tracked via Bus 499401
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=499401

Robby
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