[mb-users] playlists

[Philip Jägenstedt]

Writing a plugin to automatically generate playlists when writing tags
probably wouldn't be very difficult, but you would have to know Python
of course...

Philip

On 1/11/08, Chad Wilson <chad.wilson at gmx.net> wrote:
> What you're asking for is quite possible if you use a media player that
> is, well, probably not WinAMP; i.e. one that allows you to search and
> index by structured tag data, not filenames, which (my opinion) are
> generally a poor mechanism to build playlists on.
>
> Even if you change the file to be named "artist - track", by default the
> track numbers and album name are saved to the music file tags inside the
> file header, so with a player that respects these in its library, you
> could sort/group by album and play a whole album.
>
> Picard and MusicBrainz are album/release-centric, yes. Picard is
> oriented towards /tagging/ i.e. persisting all known data in a
> structured way to ID3(or equivalent) music file tag headers. Playlists
> are a user-concern, i.e. nothing to do with the shared server data that
> MB seeks to capture.
>
> I guess one could consider "by album" to be one form of playlist for an
> entire artist's tracks; but really, playlists are a separate concern in
> my mind. MB and Picard are about getting correct data into files, not
> about making choices for you about how you should play your music. This
> should be a concern for the music player of choice, and the efficiency
> with which it allows you to sort, find and query for music /based/ on
> those tags.
>
> Anyway, Picard is equally suited towards customising the way in which
> files are name as to tags saved to files. It's somewhat power-user like,
> but if you want to change which tags, and the way tags are saved from
> MB's data, you may want to check out TaggerScript at
> http://musicbrainz.org/doc/PicardQt/Scripting, part of Picard 0.9.0.
>
> Chad / voiceinsideyou
>
> Will Holcomb wrote:
> > What if, once I've named my files using the "%artist% - %album%"
> > format I would like to listen to an album as the artist originally
> > prepared it? What I was looking for is a way to conveniently and
> > consistently name a largely song-based music collection while still
> > having access to album orderings.
> >
> > I was also trying to see if there was some sort of philosophical issue
> > with playlists. Picard seems structured toward capturing album order
> > in the filename and I was wondering if there was a reason for that
> > decision.
> >
> > Will
> >
> > On Jan 10, 2008 1:45 PM, Oliver Charles
> > <oliver.g.charles at googlemail.com
> > <mailto:oliver.g.charles at googlemail.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     Hi Will,
> >
> >     I don't quite understand what the issue you need fixing is; if you
> >     want
> >     filenames to be artist - track, you can set this up in the options. Go
> >     to File Naming, and then just change the two top fields to
> >     "%artist% - %album%"
> >
> >     Is this what you're needing?
> >     - Ollie
> >
> >     On Thu, 2008-01-10 at 13:24 -0500, Will Holcomb wrote:
> >     > I was looking at the new QT tagger and was wanting to generate a
> >     > playlist for an album. I have quite a few individual songs from
> >     iTunes
> >     > and Magnatune, and my music collection is more song based than album
> >     > based. I'd like to be able to have the filenames uniformly be
> >     "artist
> >     > - track" based with playlists to denote particular albums rather
> >     than
> >     > naming using track numbers.
> >     >
> >     > Is there playlist support I am just missing it? If it is not
> >     present,
> >     > is there a specific reason?
> >     >
> >     > Will
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