Genre -> Artist - Year - Album -> Song

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Hi Madsonic,

I have my music organized as :
Genre/ Artist - Year - Album / Song*.mp3

This goes back a decade or so from using Apache::MP3. My ID3 tags are not trustworthy too.

When I choose :
Sort Albums by Foldername -> Check
Show album year -> uncheck
Sort Files by Foldername -> Check

I get pretty close... things are sorted ok, but I have a few problems :

1. On the Browse Genre (artist) section the artist and Year portion of the title are not shown, only the album name.
2. If I click on an album the Genre name is considered to be the Artist. So I see "Genre Name >> Album Name" Instead of "Artist >> Album Name"

So I guess my feature requests are
A. Be able to list the folder names as they are in the "Artist" (genre for me) view. Don't truncate anything, and use the file name, not ID3 tag.
B. Be able to Have two levels of hierarchy so it's genre/arist - album/song . I saw other feature requests for three levels (genre/artist/album/song), so maybe this can be generalized?

Best,
-m

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i will check this after my vacation. A setting for Enable/Disable parsing is planned.

best regards

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i will check this after my vacation. A setting for Enable/Disable parsing is planned.

That would be awesome, thanks!

-m

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I've tracked down two examples of albums that do what I want and don't do what I want on the latest (5.0.3780) build :

Good Listing the album shows up as the folder name:

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Air - 2007 - Pocket Symphony

Bad Listing the album shows up as just the album name, no artist :

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Moon Safari

Here are the idv2 dumps of those two :
Good:

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Air - 2007 - Pocket Symphony/AIR - 01 - Space Maker.mp3: No ID3v1 tag
APIC (Attached picture): ()[, 3]: image/jpeg, 33268 bytes
id3v2 tag info for Air - 2007 - Pocket Symphony/AIR - 01 - Space Maker.mp3:
TALB (Album/Movie/Show title): Pocket Symphony
TCON (Content type): Electronic (52)
TIT2 (Title/songname/content description): Space Maker
TPE1 (Lead performer(s)/Soloist(s)): AIR
TPE2 (Band/orchestra/accompaniment): AIR
TPOS (Part of a set): 1/1
TRCK (Track number/Position in set): 1/12
TSSE (Software/Hardware and settings used for encoding): -b="320" -abr -encoding="SLOW" -original_bit="0"
TXXX (User defined text information): (Encoder): Lame 3.98
TYER (Year): 2007

Bad

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Air - 1998 - Moon Safari/01 La Femme d'Argent.mp3: No ID3v1 tag
COMM (Comments): (iTunes_CDDB_IDs)[eng]: 10+90504EBD20CB86093F4E0500FF42AB8A+796283
COMM (Comments): (iTunNORM)[eng]:  00000AFE 000006D4 00008943 00003560 0002CC1F 0005E3F5 00008787 000086C1 0002EEB6 0002EEB6
id3v2 tag info for Air - 1998 - Moon Safari/01 La Femme d'Argent.mp3:
TALB (Album/Movie/Show title): Moon Safari
TCOM (Composer): jean-benont dunckel/nicolas godin
TCON (Content type): Electronica/Dance (255)
TENC (Encoded by): iTunes v4.9
TIT2 (Title/songname/content description): La Femme d'Argent
TPE1 (Lead performer(s)/Soloist(s)): Air
TPOS (Part of a set): 1/1
TRCK (Track number/Position in set): 1/10
TYER (Year): 1998
WXXX (User defined URL link): (): 

madsonic, can you tell me what tags the front-end is using in order to display it one way or another?

Thanks,
-m