Get data from filesystem structure

[masiar]

Would be nice to be able to specify the file mask used to 
get artist/album/title informations. A good example is the 
MP3 Tag Studio ( http://www.magnusbrading.com/mp3ts/ 
):
for:
Metallica\2003 - St. Anger\02 - St. Anger.mp3

the mask would be:
<artist><\><year> - <album><\><track> - <title>.mp3

this should be saved for each perspective, since Various 
Artist Albums like Soundtracks might have a different file 
structure.

[bflorat]

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OK, this could be used for :
- The history bar
- The search box
- The information panel
Each with its own pattern -> three options in a new option
group : "patterns"  of the parameters view for ex.
any idea ?

[masiar]

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My idea was to use patterns as alternative to id3 tags to 
gather the meta-data. Saved for each device.

Maybe it could be used the other way round for the logical 
tree too. This could be used to easily switch between different 
view. One that shows a tree like now, another one like this:
Year
+- Artist
   +- Album 
Chosing the patterns from a drop-down menu.

Unfortunatly I can't follow your post. Can you give an example, 
how you would use the patterns?

[fsck222]

(trac cleaning, please close the ticket, if it has been fixed)

[mheja1@…]

the masking also could be used to build the logical artist, album, track from structured data repositories, when the music format it is not tagged.

Example 1:

A file on the windows path c:\music\Beatles\Help\Help.wav

could bring the info at the time of scanning the folder c:\music as:

Device: music
Artist: Beatles
Album: Help
Track: Help

by selecting C:\music as device and then mask (pattern) for scanning: %artist/%album/%Title

Example 2:

A file on the windows path c:\music\Beatles\1962-Help\03-Help.wav

could bring the info at the time of scanning the folder c:\music as:

device: music
artist: Beatles
year: 1962
album: Help
track: 03
title: Help

by selecting the mask (pattern) %artist/%year-%album/%n-%title

I think this would be very helpful, complementing the building of an logical structure from the tags info already in Jajuk, with its counterpart by creating taking info from structured data for the bulding of database info. Thank you.

[bflorat]

OK, this is this idea.

Note that jajuk already implements partially this when using the 'Use parent directory as album name' option : it uses the directory as album name but I agree we could go further.