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More => Old Versions => JRiver Media Center 19 for Windows => Topic started by: jmone on January 18, 2014, 11:26:59 pm

Title: How to Convert a Playlist into a New Album?
Post by: jmone on January 18, 2014, 11:26:59 pm

I'm creating a "2013 Top 100" Album (Multiple Artists) but need some help on a "easier way".  What I'm doing so far is:
- Create a Playlist (2013 Top 100)
- Find the tracks in order and add them to the playlist (I have most of these tracks in other Albums).
- Use "Rename, Move, & Copy Files", selecting "Copy", a Temporary Directory, and for the Filename Rule - "Counter() - [Artist] - [Name]".  Now the use of "Counter()" renames the files in the correct order but the counter does not always start at 1 (it started at 121 for me).
- I then find these new items and update the Tags like Album (to 2013 Top 100), Album Artist (to (Multiple Artists))
- I then sort by the filename and use "Fill Track numbers from List Order"
- Change any the the coverart from the Old Album (eg "So Fresh - The Hits of Winder 2013") to the one related to the track if needed

Once I'm happy all the Meta Data is correct, I can then:
- Update Tags from Library
- Use my standard "Rename, Move, & Copy Files" templates of [Media Type]\[Album Artist (Auto)]\[Album] and [Track #] - [Artist] - [Name] to correctly name the new Album and it's content.

Any suggestions for either an easier way or a butter function than "Counter()" as it updates every time you do something in the diag box?

Thanks
Nathan

Title: Re: How to Convert a Playlist into a New Album?
Post by: MrC on January 18, 2014, 11:30:13 pm

Quick initial feedback - use CustomData(#) (http://wiki.jriver.com/index.php/Expression_Language#CustomData) instead of Counter() in the Rename dialog.

Title: Re: How to Convert a Playlist into a New Album?
Post by: jmone on January 18, 2014, 11:33:06 pm

Thanks!  Looks good Admin  ;D

Title: Re: How to Convert a Playlist into a New Album?
Post by: MrC on January 18, 2014, 11:35:58 pm

Additional possibilities.

Create a new field, maybe something like Virtual Album, and add a tag value, such as "2013 Top 100; #" to each track, where the first part indicates the name of the Top album, and the second part indicates the position (and hence track number).  This way, you maintain that data on a per-track basis, and can easily recreate the playlist by grabbing the first item and second item (using listitem()).

If you're going to have many of these albums, such as Billboard Top 100 2013, or Rolling Stone Top 10 2013, etc., create new fields using those lists as field names, and do the fill the fields with the position / track number.

Title: Re: How to Convert a Playlist into a New Album?
Post by: jmone on January 18, 2014, 11:59:47 pm

Thanks - I'm just going to have one.  The Customdata(#) function works well, I was more wondering if there was some feature where you could replace selected tags during the copy process, but that bit is not to hard anyone once I had the new tracks in the correct named order.