I have quite a lot of songs with correct id3 tags, but with a missing album name. Things like live songs, radio edits, remixes, etc. I'd really like to have some way to index them with the mkwebplay_id3 script, but it just ignores them.
Is there anyway to use the MASK functionality to fill in some generic album name (like "Unknown")?
Scott
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first off, there is no way (currently) to set a default value for a field.
the easiest way to do what you're asking would be to put all such affected mp3s into a directory called Unknown and force that with a rule {album=Unknown}. (an ugly kludge).
any other way to do it would involve setting defaults for Album in the maskfile, which while not necessarily bad and certainly doable, may not be what you want.
you may not want EVERY mp3 to be set Unknown on no album tag, in which case you'd put the ones you do into a directory, and well, umm, then you may as well use {album=Unknown}.
however, a default tag with running precedence would be legible
default ALBUM=Unknown
{ARTIST=foo}/{ALBUM=abc}/abc - {song}
{ARTIST=foo}/{song}
default off
{ARTIST}/{ALBUM}/{song}
..etc
sorry, i'm thinking out loud. let me think about it for a bit. but does that seem workable?
dave
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Hi,
I have quite a lot of songs with correct id3 tags, but with a missing album name. Things like live songs, radio edits, remixes, etc. I'd really like to have some way to index them with the mkwebplay_id3 script, but it just ignores them.
Is there anyway to use the MASK functionality to fill in some generic album name (like "Unknown")?
Scott
first off, there is no way (currently) to set a default value for a field.
the easiest way to do what you're asking would be to put all such affected mp3s into a directory called Unknown and force that with a rule {album=Unknown}. (an ugly kludge).
any other way to do it would involve setting defaults for Album in the maskfile, which while not necessarily bad and certainly doable, may not be what you want.
you may not want EVERY mp3 to be set Unknown on no album tag, in which case you'd put the ones you do into a directory, and well, umm, then you may as well use {album=Unknown}.
however, a default tag with running precedence would be legible
default ALBUM=Unknown
{ARTIST=foo}/{ALBUM=abc}/abc - {song}
{ARTIST=foo}/{song}
default off
{ARTIST}/{ALBUM}/{song}
..etc
sorry, i'm thinking out loud. let me think about it for a bit. but does that seem workable?
dave
fyi, this is in the latest release (0.98a) -- there's a blurb in README.MASKS.
sorry for the excessive delay in responding (the fix was checked in months ago) here, but i had some problems with my account & was unable to login.