[madman-discuss] New AutoTag Algorithms and Proposed AutoRename feature

[Chris E. <ce...@gm...>]

I tried to go back into the archives gmane but didn't see the best way
to offer up new code for madman.  I've attached an updated version of
ui/auto_tag.cpp that implements 3 new AutoTag algorithms that I found
helpful.

Artist/Album/Tracknumber - Title
Artist - Album/Tracknumber - Title
Tracknumber only

The last one is the simplest; it merely looks for a series of digits
in a filename (no path).  The others are based of the "Artist - Title"
algorithm but use the full path of the file.  I considered trying to
hack the "Intelligent" algorithm to consider these cases but it was
easy enough to implement the basic regex for each.  The only drawback
I see is that I assume a Unix style directory delimiter in case anyone
has successfully gotten madman working on Windows.

I can continue offering up "single use" algorithms but would it be
more productive to try to get the "Intelligent" algorithm to take
these cases into account?  I was worried I would break other cases it
does handle for the sake of making these ones work.

My other question is whether anyone has considered an
automated/configurable way to rename the physical files madman manages
based on their tag contents.  I know, for example, that iTunes does
something along these lines and it would be helpful for people who are
equally anal-retentive as myself.  The basic idea would be to
re-arrange a selection of files to match a configurable pattern so
that, from the root of the media directory they were found, all files
would have identical organization.  Also available as a possible
configuration option would be special characters to be parsed out of
the filenames (or ignored) to make them more "transportable".  I say
across a selection as it might be dangerous to make this purely
automated in the background or during the scan process.

At first I considered just writing a quick plug-in to handle this.
The main drawback I see to this is that you would need to re-scan your
library so that these files are "re-found".  I also assume that madman
would consider these files brand new and any history/stats you had on
the files before they were renamed would be lost (true?).  In the
short term, I can write and offer up just such a plug-in as more or
less a "proof of concept".  Any ideas?

-- 
Chris Elston
ce...@gm...