#9 Use guessed artist, album or title if longer than tag

[Anders Sandvig]

Add option: "Use guessed artist, album or title if longer
than tag".

I want this because I have a lot of mp3s with id3 tags
that contain cropped artist names, album names and
titles because they are too long to fit inside ID3v1.1,
howver, the filenames are correct.

[Anders Sandvig]

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Note:
If we decide to implement the Winamp5-style title formatting
this could be solved through the $longest() function.

[Anders Sandvig]

No longer relevant with ID3v2? Would require rewrite of file database as we now only store one item for artist, title, etc.

[Jřrgen H. Seland]

I suggest we use some standard embedded database and supporting multiple sets of metadata. But not SqLite - its sloooow.

[Anders Sandvig]

The media library has already been rewritten to use a SQLite back-end. I haven't done much speed testing yet, but so far it seems to be working quite well. As suggested, this could be implemented by adding extra columns to the 'mediafile' table in the database.

[Anders Sandvig]

Moved to backlog for further consideration.