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Best practices to display multiple copies of same album
ferday:
Every little thing I can give to this forum goes to pay off my debt from taking so much from it :)
And learning one of the power users makes me feel good ha ha ha
Vocalpoint:
--- Quote from: blgentry on August 27, 2015, 07:27:52 pm ---So I just decided to play with one of the few albums I have two copies of: Fleetwood Mac, Rumours. I have a CD version and a DVD-A version. The DVD-A version, until about 10 minutes ago, had the string "(DVD-A)" at the end of the album title. I just changed the Album tag to simply "Rumours". Then a funny thing happened. The CD copy of Rumours just up and left the building. Gone from Album view all together. I won't bore you with everything I tried (just a few things) before I realized that (DUH) MC now thinks that both Albums are ONE album because they have the same Artist, Album, Album Artist (auto).
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To this item - with two version of the same album out on your drive somewhere - how are you naming the folders for each "Rumours"?
Does it look like :
DriveLetter->Fleetwood Mac->Rumours * This would be the CD version
DriveLetter->Fleetwood Mac->Rumours (DVD-A) The DVD-A version?
And this....
--- Quote from: ferday on August 27, 2015, 07:42:53 pm ---i just took the stock "Albums" view, and changed the Categories>Album to
--- Code: ---if(isempty([album info]),[Album],[Album]-[Album info])
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and indeed all of my copies of nevermind are separated as if they were "different" albums
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Was the awesome expression piece I have been looking for!
Just need to nail down how you gents are naming your folders for multiple versions of each album and I think I will be ready to roll.
VP
blgentry:
--- Quote from: Vocalpoint on August 28, 2015, 09:54:24 am ---To this item - with two version of the same album out on your drive somewhere - how are you naming the folders for each "Rumours"?
Does it look like :
DriveLetter->Fleetwood Mac->Rumours * This would be the CD version
DriveLetter->Fleetwood Mac->Rumours (DVD-A) The DVD-A version?
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I probably *should* have them named something like that. Instead my DVD-A version is named:
Rumours (24-96-2)
My reasoning was to tell myself the exact format of the audio (24 bit, 96kHz, 2 channel) as opposed to "this came from a DVD-A". Looking back on it, DVD-A as a suffix makes more sense in a way. I can see you doing either one. For me, since I NEVER navigate MC through the directory structure, it really doesn't matter. The Views are the important part. I only want the files and directories organized on disk because it makes sense to be organized for maintenance reasons. The names of the directories don't need to match anything in MC directly, one to one. <shrug>
Brian.
ferday:
well you can name it however you want right...
i sometimes have a lot of info in the [album info] field so i don't want that to be in the folder name
for the most part, if i don't have a different date (release), i don't have album info (there are exceptions but it's not like i import 100 remasters a day) so i use that as the trigger in RMC (with an !isequal([date],[date (release)]) and deal with outliers manually
my Rumours DVD-A is: Rumours-RM 2001-1977-Flac-Multi
but of course you can make it add whatever you want right, just choose your trigger with RMC
i should add, i was an early adopter of digital storing many years ago, so folder structure was pretty important...the obsession remains today so i change mine all the time to "improve" it not only on disc but also tagging in MC
Vocalpoint:
--- Quote from: blgentry on August 28, 2015, 10:33:05 am ---My reasoning was to tell myself the exact format of the audio (24 bit, 96kHz, 2 channel) as opposed to "this came from a DVD-A". Looking back on it, DVD-A as a suffix makes more sense in a way. Brian.
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Brian
I will probably go with something different - like concatenating Label and Catalog number to each folder. Something like this:
\\SERVER\Music\Pink Floyd\The Wall\Mobile Fidelity UDCD 537
\\SERVER\Music\Pink Floyd\The Wall\Harvest CDS 7 46036 8
Each and every one of my 6500+ albums has the label and catalog number embedded. Using this combo will allow for clean concise storage on the music server plus give me instant clarity for backup purposes as well. Naming them this way makes searching the backup archives via my indexing software a breeze.
Off to test now!
Cheers!
VP
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