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Yeah, I've been very curious to see how that turns out.

Plus... might turn out to be a gooc source for fanart.tv.

greengeek wrote:

Ahh, nice source. Thanks for the link. Been playing around with setting up a htpc. Still undecided between wmc 7 and xmbc both have some really nice features.

I played with WMC on a PC for a while and just wasn't impressed. It's not terrible, just kind of uninspiring and lacking. I prolly didn't give it a fair shake though, being MS and all. I also used Tiny7 so I wasn't sure if WMC was going to play nice with a stripped-out 7. XBMC offers so much content and so many choices, plus it's extremely customizable and has a pretty large support forum. It still has it's quirks and, sorta like Jaikoz, when you open up a million options and features, everyone wants things their way.

I built a small Intel i3 box that sits under the TV and I wish I did it years ago.

greengeek wrote:

Hmm, just noticed the music section #1 submitter for the month is dkoh, is that you?

Yeah, but just for logos. All of that content shows up in the "now playing" screen (same for the TV and Movie pages), with the printed disc spinning halfway out of the jewel case and all. I still have a smallish pile of CDs

but scanning gets tedious.

fanart.tv

It's still in its relative infancy, but all the artwork is HQ 1000px and must be approved before it's submitted. It was started as another repository for XBMC artwork and is growing pretty quickly. Music stuff uses musicbrainz IDs, but unfortunately it uses the Release Group instead of the actual Release, but it still offers a decent collection.

The API key can be found at the very bottom.

Of course, you can manually add this artwork. And if any of you have something to contribute, throw it up there.

*I am not affiliated with fanart.tv, just been using it heavily with my HTPC and I figured it may be of use to Jaikoz.

Added H

Added Gs.

Glad you got it figured out.

To be more precise on what your problem was, in the AC list is "Correct Metadata from Filename". You can remove this entry entirely or you can edit its behavior under Prefs>File and Folder Correct>Correct Metadata from Filename tab in case you do want to use it. You can also check the "Only populate fields if empty" box which helps the AC when you bring in files that are all blank, but won't molest files that already have tags.

It would help if you stated what you want to be skipped.

The entries in the autocorrector have more detailed options in other tabs. What you are probably looking for is under:
1. Prefs>MusicBrainz>Format
2. Prefs>MusicBrainz>Format 2
or
3. Prefs>Remote Correct>Discogs

Change the value you want to be skipped to "Never Alter".

If it's punctuation/caps/spelling you don't want changed look at the Local Correct and Manipulator tabs.

No, you don't need to pay for the Pro version, the regular version is still the bread 'n butter and is still being constantly updated.

Pro only has a couple extra "power user" features, and really is "Pro".See here.

Fs are up.

After thinking about this a bit, what about:

[click Col1] Sort Col1 Ascending
[shift+click Col2] Col1 Ascending and Col2 Ascending
[shift+click Col2] Col1 Ascending and Col2 Descending
[shift+click Col3] Col1 Ascending, Col2 Descending, & Col3 Ascending

Clicking any other header by itself clears the other sorts and sorts only that column. Essentially, the behavior would stay like how it is now, just with the previous sorts.

I'm no programmer, just throwing ideas out there, so I have no idea how much is involved here. I like this idea though.

BTW, Clicking the Record Number (Row) header already resets to original row order as it is.

Here's pretty much my suggestion for everything:

Shift+click

<edit> Actually, that's not quite a complete idea. Would it always sort ascending when you append sorts? Would things break if the first column is descending and you shift+clicked another column? What if the first column didn't matter, but all subsequent sorts were ascending? And whats the limit on sorts? 3, 4... 10?

(or does it even matter?)

FWIW, allmusic.com has a decent set of moods and occasions (I'm sure Paul's tired of hearing this ;). It is subjective but they use a defined list so it's very consistent, which makes it predictable when searching by those fields.

Unfortunately you have to tag them manually, but I've been putting lists together of my tags that should make copying/pasting easier for others.
http://www.jthink.net/jaikozforum/posts/list/4558.page

Hope it helps some.

There's a few ways to do this.

There's no need to delete the one that's there. Changing artwork always replaces the previous one.

You can copy one and select>paste to multiple others (ctrl c > ctrl v) directly in those fields.

You can select the files you want to change and drag-n-drop an image directly from Win Explorer or your web browser. The file must be dropped onto the bottom area, underneath the Summary, Info, Misicbrainz, Sorting, etc tabs. You also don't have to select the Artwork field, it can be any field and Jaikoz will understand it's artwork for that track.

You can also double click the little number next to the artwork field to open up a dialog. This is where you can add more artwork files (alt covers, back, liner notes, etc). Since you can only edit one at a time this way, you'll have to copy>paste the rest of the album.

BTW, ctrl-v pastes all values in multi-value fields, ctrl-shift-v pastes only the first values. This applies to all fields that have a little number next to them.

Just added the Es. I'm submitting as many genres to MB as I can but I'm having a real problem with timeouts. Sometimes I can do 600, others I can not do 20, so I do what I can.

General>Base Folder is where your entire collection is. This isn't really necessary and really should only be used if you have a smallish library and want to auto load when you start Jaikoz.

Save>General>Move Folder is where you want to move your files. This is where you would point to your "sortedmusic" folder. You can also define a deleted folder here, kinda like an additional recycle bin.

Set up your filters in:
File and Folder Correct>Rename File From Metadata and
File and Folder Correct>Rename Folder From Metadata
You would define everything after \\sortedmusic\, like "albumartist + folderseparator + album". See http://www.jthink.net/jaikozforum/posts/list/4418.page

Now you have a few options as far as saving and moving. You can manually
Action>File and Folder Correct>Correct Sub Folders from Metadata
and
Action>File and Folder Correct>Correct Filenames from Metadata
and then
File>Save and Move

You can also manually see/edit what's going on if you enable the "filename" and "sub folder" columns. Whatever it says in there is what it will be on save.

Or, of course, you can add all of these to the AutoCorrector. In the AutoCorrector list you have the added option of "Save and Move if Matched", but you must make sure that you have your tags correct before you run the AC. If the AC matches to an incorrect release, or even worse a Various Artist, it can get real messy.

I would recommend copying a small group of files and testing it out manually before you commit to the AutoCorrector.

As far as deleting NFOs and HTMs and everything, I just search for *.* on the entire library, sort by type, and delete everything that isn't a sound file. I'm not sure, but Jaikoz will probably leave these files behind in unsortedmusic where you will probably delete them later.