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Vocalpoint:

--- 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])
--- End code ---

and indeed all of my copies of nevermind are separated as if they were "different" albums
--- End quote ---

Ferday

Couple questions

Where exactly are you entering the "expression" text (see attachment).

And when you say "changed" - you mean completely "replaced" Categories-Album with Categories-Expression -Not "added to" - correct?

VP

ferday:
In the expression to group by (top) and yes replace album completely.  I saved it as a new view, recommend for you too, don't overwrite the original view

blgentry:
VocalPoint brings up something I've been mulling over for quite a while now:  The Catalog Numbers of music and their UPC codes.

Because the recording industry has gone crazy with the cursed "loudness war", I'm constantly consulting the loudnesswar.info database when buying new CDs, trying to find the one with the best compromise of Dynamic Range and quality.  This leads me to looking for specific catalog numbers or specific UPC codes.  Useful for figuring out which CD to buy.  But is it worth recording?  It's an "official" marker, but does it help anyone figure anything out?

VP, you said something about your archiving.  Do you mean that you can tie your digital copies of songs to the physical CD (or DVD, etc) by the catalog number?  So if you needed to re-rip a CD there's no question of which one it came from?  Or maybe there's more to it?

Every now and then I record a catalog number; usually when the automatic metadata populates the album field with it.  I wonder if I should do it more often?  Can anyone think of a good reason for or against?

VP, I'm very thankful you started this thread.  I've had questions about a lot of these topics for a while.  :)

Brian.

ferday:
I'm trying to catalog # all of mine.  It's partially obsessive completeness and partly to give each album a unique and unambiguous identifier. 

The most practical use I've gotten from the catalog is using it to search discogs for correct version and label info

I agree with Brian-I like these kind of posts because they play in to my collector personality and make me think about things differently.  Thanks to,you guys I've started using the album view a little bit and think I may have a use for it...

jaxtherogue:
It's rare for me to keep multiple releases of albums in digital- I keep what I consider the best version and purge the rest (I cannot say the same for my vinyl collection however).  For multiples I do keep I prefer to use the Discogs release number. Catalog numbers mean trusting every label to use them as unique identifiers (and I don't believe they always do) and  I find UPCs unreliable for search, but the discog release number is always there. Until discogs goes defunct anyway; the reliance on Discogs is the lynch-pin for this.

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