Complete Albums
Media Center can automatically display complete and incomplete albums. An album is considered complete if all the files with the same [Album] value in the same directory:
are sequentially numbered tracks starting at 1
have at least 2 files or 10 minutes of audio
are Audio and have a non-empty [Album] value.
Can you not create a user defined field named Single, and set that field for your singles, and key your expressions from its existence?
Thanks. I had missed that thread, and now, after having skimmed it, I just can't understand the logic being used here or why it would be changed to the way it is now.
While I can see a need to have single track albums recognized as complete albums, it would seem to me that it be the exception, not the rule. There are as many Track 1s as there are albums out there. There aren't nearly that many single track albums.
With this logic in place, it's impossible to build a renaming expression that keys off of [Complete Album] to determine if a track belongs in the Albums folder or the Singles folder. As soon as I just happen to have a single file with a Track # of 1, then it winds up in the wrong place. The only alternative is to abandon the use of an Album folder with singles, which then greatly complicates how cover art is stored.
Currently I use a system like this:
Music\Albums\[Album Artist (auto)]\[Album] for albums
Music\Singles\[Album Artist (auto)]\[Album] for singles
It keeps them seperate, and allows me to store cover art in the folder with the tracks.
I then use an Expression to rename my audio files and to make sure that Albums and Singles wind up in the correct places. But it's broken because of this behavior.
-- Folder \ Track 1
-- Folder \ Track 1 \ Track 2
-- Folder \ Track 1 \ Track 2 \ Track 3
-- etc...
-- Folder \ Track (without a track number)
-- Folder \ Track 2
-- Folder \ Track 1 \ Track 1 \ Track 1
-- Folder \ Track (without a track number) \ Track 1 \ Track 2 \ Track 3
-- Folder \ Track 1 \ Track 1 \ Track 2 \ Track 3
What happened to the "at least 10 minutes long" part? If that were still being enforced, things would work correctly, at least in my case. Although I still think the logic is severely flawed. Why break a system that works for 99% percent of the cases in favor of the 1%?
So that the 3 people with single track albums don't have to?
Not to sounds snippy, but it just doesn't make any sense to me why the vast majority of singles have to have a work-around so that the minority can take advantage of the automatic feature.So that the 3 people with single track albums don't have to?
So that the 3 people with single track albums don't have to?
Not to sounds snippy, but it just doesn't make any sense to me why the vast majority of singles have to have a work-around so that the minority can take advantage of the automatic feature.
I don't follow what Alex said about removing the track number, as that makes the Complete Album field undefined or become 0.