slick
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posted on 11-2-2005 at 03:23 PM
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Pain in the ass album splitting issue
It has long been a problem that ej looks for album covers, finds the song on another album and changes the name of the album for that track only,
thereby splitting albums. It leaves a trail of broken albums in it's wake. (I do not have fuzzy logic enabled)
Anywho, as if this isn't bad enough, it has started doing something else. It even splits albums with covers.
e.g.
today I was listening to Iron Maiden's first album, also called Iron Maiden (another point: you can't select just that album to play, it selects the
whole Iron Maiden catalogue instead. arrg). As I was listening through the tracks, I noticed that ej created a new album called "The Essential Iron
Maiden" and moved some of the tracks there. I am used to this shabby behaviour, so I only play albums once I have saved the cover in the tags. What
is totally disgusting is that the album already had a cover, so it shouldn't have been looking elsewhere for a new one in the first place!!!
This brings me to another, related point: Reload the jukebox and a lot of previously found covers disappear. I also think ej only writes the cover to
the first tag anyway when it finds them. Play another track off the album and it has to look up that cover too.
Come on man, sort this out!
I am very pIssed off. I am trying to work and I'm sorting out mp3 tags all f**king day long!
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Pirk
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posted on 11-2-2005 at 05:34 PM
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Slick,
First, I would advise you to check the option: "Disable Automatic Album Cover Lookups" (in Options/Playlist -> Other), in order to stop the
massacre of your albums! 
If you have a lot of complete albums, then maybe you need to fix some of your ID3 tags. In fact I recommend you to verify ALL your tags with a
dedicated program like Tag&Rename:
It is very important that you fill in at least the "Artist" and the "Album" tags for each album... But note that, if you have complete albums,
T&R can automatically gets album titles from freedb or Amazon site. 
Personally I put one album per folder with its album cover art named "cover.jpg". So like this no need to add embedded covers, but it's as you
prefer!
Once you have done all this necessary preliminary work, then you can import your mp3s in eJukebox, rebuilding your database.
The result is guarantee!! And that will avoid you a lot of pain in future. 
Of course theoretically eJukebox can try to do the job for you, but you know the sequence...
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slick
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posted on 11-8-2005 at 10:45 AM
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Thanks for the low down, Pirk. I use Tagscanner as a general rule. There was something annoying about tag&rename, but I can't remember what it
was! Tagscanner allows you to 'lock' the album name etc so it can't change whilst renaming.
I might try that cover.jpg trick. Although, I find I am now dragging and dropping a whole new set of covers into ej, because the 100x100 pixel regular
ones (or whatever) look horrid when ej is expanded. The covers now need to be at least 300x300, but I'm happy I can see the covers in more detail
now.
Any idea when we'll get albums in year order? When you look at say Metallica, you NEED "Kill 'em all" first, followed by "Ride the lightening"
etc. Anything else just isn't RIGHT
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Pirk
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posted on 11-8-2005 at 08:15 PM
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I don't know Tagscanner, but it doesn't matter, providing you can fix your tags.
Yep you are right! Drag and drop covers is indeed a very good feature to update too small images.
Albums in year order? ALL RIGHT !! I totally agree with you...
My personal trick for this: I name all my albums "Year - AlbumName", so I already get albums in year order in the album list!
I like to see years displayed in front of album names, but I also think that albums should be sorted in year order by default (or at least
optionally), even without years in front.
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Pirk
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posted on 11-9-2005 at 12:35 PM
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Slick,
It seems there is a problem with the last eJukebox version(s) !? 
-> http://www.audiosoft.net/forums/viewthread.php?tid=1323&page=1#pid7161
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