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New user of DWjuke and I love it! But I also have some questions
Chris:
Simple solution: Put all the genre folders under a master folder called "Music" or "Genres" or something, and leave your SongPath alone. Thus, all the genre folders will be two levels deep and will become the de facto "album" for songs without album tags. So instead of a huge "Singles/Various Artists" album you'll have an "album" called Rap, one called Rock, one called Punk, one called Polka, etc.
EDIT: You won't see the change in the albums unless you delete the files in the DATA folder.
quarterback:
--- Quote from: Chris on January 03, 2008, 03:14:00 pm ---Simple solution: Put all the genre folders under a master folder called "Music" or "Genres" or something, and leave your SongPath alone. Thus, all the genre folders will be two levels deep and will become the de facto "album" for songs without album tags.
--- End quote ---
Well, that's how they are right now because the genre folders area all within a primary mp3 folder.
Not that I think it makes a difference, but the primary mp3 folder is actually "iTunes Music" and I have many genre folders within that "iTunes Music" folder
iTunes Music > Heavy Metal
iTunes Music > Jazz
iTunes Music > 80's Hits
etc
Is the problem due to the fact that I also have full-album-directories within each genre directory?
--- Quote from: Chris on January 03, 2008, 03:14:00 pm ---So instead of a huge "Singles/Various Artists" album you'll have an "album" called Rap, one called Rock, one called Punk, one called Polka, etc.
--- End quote ---
The big Various Artists compilations aren't a problem for me. The only problem I have are the single songs that aren't put into a Various Artists album. What I don't understand is why some of those single songs are placed into "albums" that only have 1, 2, 3, or 4 songs. I just don't understand why some are considered part of an "album" when others aren't and are, therefore, put into "Various Artists".
I thought it might be ID3 tag related (and maybe it is somehow) but all those single individual tracks have "album" tags. The ones that are put into a "various artists" group have album tags as well as the ones that are put into 2-song "albums", but they're being treated differently.
Chris:
--- Quote from: quarterback on January 03, 2008, 03:41:08 pm ---
--- Quote from: Chris on January 03, 2008, 03:14:00 pm ---Simple solution: Put all the genre folders under a master folder called "Music" or "Genres" or something, and leave your SongPath alone. Thus, all the genre folders will be two levels deep and will become the de facto "album" for songs without album tags.
--- End quote ---
Well, that's how they are right now because the genre folders area all within a primary mp3 folder.
--- End quote ---
The point is to put them one level farther down in relation to the folder that your SongPath points to. So if SongPath points to the "primary mp3" folder, you could either add another "mp3" folder between the primary MP3 folder and the genre folders, or point SongPath to the folder above the primary MP3 folder (but that will probably pick up a bunch of folders you don't want).
--- Quote ---Well, that's how they are right now because the genre folders area all within a primary mp3 folder.
Not that I think it makes a difference, but the primary mp3 folder is actually "iTunes Music" and I have many genre folders within that "iTunes Music" folder
iTunes Music > Heavy Metal
iTunes Music > Jazz
iTunes Music > 80's Hits
--- End quote ---
I'm assuming that your jukebox.ini has:
SongPath=C:\iTunes Music
If your iTunes Music folder had a folder called Genres, and all the Genre folders were in that folder, they woud be two levels deep, which would make the jukebox assume they were album folders, as it assumes a structure of Music\Artist\Album where Music is the SongPath.
--- Quote ---I thought it might be ID3 tag related (and maybe it is somehow) but all those single individual tracks have "album" tags. The ones that are put into a "various artists" group have album tags as well as the ones that are put into 2-song "albums", but they're being treated differently.
--- End quote ---
"Various Artists" is a bit of a red herring here. Any album grouping that does not have at least 50% of its songs by a single artist will show up as "Various Artists". If the album name is completey unknown, it will go into an album called "Singles".
Have you changed the StrictAlbum setting in jukebox.ini? You definately do NOT want to be using StrictAlbum=* with your folder arrangement.
--Chris
quarterback:
--- Quote from: Chris on January 03, 2008, 03:57:09 pm ---
--- Quote from: quarterback on January 03, 2008, 03:41:08 pm ---
--- Quote from: Chris on January 03, 2008, 03:14:00 pm ---Simple solution: Put all the genre folders under a master folder called "Music" or "Genres" or something, and leave your SongPath alone. Thus, all the genre folders will be two levels deep and will become the de facto "album" for songs without album tags.
--- End quote ---
Well, that's how they are right now because the genre folders area all within a primary mp3 folder.
--- End quote ---
The point is to put them one level farther down in relation to the folder that your SongPath points to. So if SongPath points to the "primary mp3" folder, you could either add another "mp3" folder between the primary MP3 folder and the genre folders, or point SongPath to the folder above the primary MP3 folder (but that will probably pick up a bunch of folders you don't want).
If your iTunes Music folder had a folder called Genres, and all the Genre folders were in that folder, they woud be two levels deep, which would make the jukebox assume they were album folders, as it assumes a structure of Music\Artist\Album where Music is the SongPath.
--- End quote ---
Gotcha. I misunderstood the two levels deep. Part of the "problem" is that these directories are also used by iTunes when accessed by two other computers and are utilized by MusicMatch when accessed from another computer. While it wouldn't be impossible for me to re-arrange the folder structure, I'm trying to avoid it.
I have another related question. Is there a way to exclude specific subdirectories? You know, like putting something like "-c:/iTunes/crapIdontWantTohear" in the ini and having it skip those but still catalog "c:/iTunes/StuffILike"?
--- Quote ---"Various Artists" is a bit of a red herring here. Any album grouping that does not have at least 50% of its songs by a single artist will show up as "Various Artists". If the album name is completey unknown, it will go into an album called "Singles".
Have you changed the StrictAlbum setting in jukebox.ini? You definately do NOT want to be using StrictAlbum=* with your folder arrangement.
--- End quote ---
I should check that. If it's on by default, then I'm probably using it.
Thanks Chris
Chris:
--- Quote from: quarterback on January 03, 2008, 04:16:51 pm ---Gotcha. I misunderstood the two levels deep. Part of the "problem" is that these directories are also used by iTunes when accessed by two other computers and are utilized by MusicMatch when accessed from another computer. While it wouldn't be impossible for me to re-arrange the folder structure, I'm trying to avoid it.
--- End quote ---
OK... looks like I'll have to solve it on my end then by allowing you to specify a custom folder structure for non-tagged items.
--- Quote ---I have another related question. Is there a way to exclude specific subdirectories? You know, like putting something like "-c:/iTunes/crapIdontWantTohear" in the ini and having it skip those but still catalog "c:/iTunes/StuffILike"?
--- End quote ---
No, but there probably should be.
--- Quote ---Have you changed the StrictAlbum setting in jukebox.ini? You definately do NOT want to be using StrictAlbum=* with your folder arrangement.
--- End quote ---
I should check that. If it's on by default, then I'm probably using it.
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It should not be in the default jukebox.ini, but sometimes when I'm testing I forget to revert a setting back before I package the build, so anything is possible.
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