SongKong and Jaikoz Music Tagger Community Forum

TimBlup · 14 January 2020 12:47

Hello,

I have recently bought SongKong and it looks like a very powerfull application to sort out my music collection. My compliments!
I have a question though.
I am trying to get my collection organized into the following format:
AlbumArtist =/AlbumArtist - [Year] Album (Audio Encoder)/Tracknumber - Title
with:
ifnotempty(albumartist,’ =/’)

ifnotempty(albumartist,’ - [’)
(year.length>4 ? year.substring(0,4):year) + '] ’
ifnotempty(album,’ (’)
ifnotempty(audioencoder,’)/’)
ifnotempty(pad(trackno,2),’ - ')
title

The example shows: “U2 =/U2 - [1980] Boy (mp3)/02 - Twilight”
There all seems to be okay, but sorting out my music in flac format the result shows: “U2 =/U2 - [1980] Boy (Flac) (FLAC 16 bits)/02 - Twilight”
Where I would have expected “U2 =/U2 - [1980] Boy (Flac)/02 - Twilight”!
Is this a flaw or a feature?
When it is a feature, how can I correct it into the expected (flac) format?

With regards. :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup:

paultaylor · 14 January 2020 15:14

Hi, that is possibly a bug that is the value returned by the audio header, but not consistent over different audio formats.

But you could get round it by deriving encoder from filename suffix instead

i.e.

ifnotempty(albumartist,' =/')
+ ifnotempty(albumartist,' - [')
+ (year.length>4 ? year.substring(0,4):year) + '] '
+ ifnotempty(album,' (')
+ ifnotempty(filename.substring(filename.indexOf('.') + 1, filename.length),')/')
+ ifnotempty(pad(trackno,2),' - ')
+ title

TimBlup · 14 January 2020 15:14

Hi Paul,

In SongKong your solution looks good, it shows the example “U2 =/U2 - [1980] Boy (mp3)/02 - Twilight”, but using it on:
Cosmic Smokers - [2004] On Another Planet\01 - Part 01.flac
I got:
Cosmic Smokers =\Cosmic Smokers - [2004] On Another Planet (Flac) (01 - Part 01)\01 - Part 01.flac
(not what I am looking for)
Then I changed “filename.indexOf” into “filename.lastIndexOf” the example didn’t change, still “U2 =/U2 - [1980] Boy (mp3)/02 - Twilight”
but using it again on:
Cosmic Smokers - [2004] On Another Planet\01 - Part 01.flac
Again I got:
Cosmic Smokers =\Cosmic Smokers - [2004] On Another Planet (Flac) (01 - Part 01)\01 - Part 01.flac

The workaround didn’t help that much…
Have you any idea to solve this?

paultaylor · 14 January 2020 15:14

Are you sure you are using the amended mask, i cant see what the issue is but it would help if you could run Help:Create Support Files

TimBlup · 14 January 2020 15:14

Hi Paul,

I specially downloaded your example album in both flac and mp3 for the check on amended mask.
The result on the origin:
Song changes - E:\SongKong\Corrected_SK\U2 =\U2 - [1980] Boy (2) (01 - I Will Follow)

result:
E:\SongKong\Corrected_SK\U2 =\U2 - [1980] Boy (2) (01 - I Will Follow)\01 - I Will Follow.flac (MusicBrainz & Discogs)

I also ran Help:Create Support Files

with kind regards

paultaylor · 14 January 2020 15:14

Sorry for the delay Tim

I have just realized the problem. Although the filename field contains the ‘.flac’ part in the example mask, when actually used the actual filename field doesn’t contain the suffix part so that is why you cannot get it.

So the only solution I can think of for now is to filter the value returned by audioencoder field

ifnotempty(albumartist,' =/')
+ ifnotempty(albumartist,' - [')
+ (year.length>4 ? year.substring(0,4):year) + '] '
+ ifnotempty(album,' (')
+ ifnotempty(audioencoder.replace('16 bits',''),')/')
+ ifnotempty(pad(trackno,2),' - ')
+ title

You could chain multiple replace functions together to deal with each case.

And I will do a fix for a later release.

paultaylor · 14 January 2020 15:14

So I am looking at this in more detail, now SongKong provides audioencoder and audioformat fields, but apart from Mp3s the values are the same for both !

I am going to modify audioformat to store the generic encoder, the value that you want. In most cases would be synonymous with file suffix (i.e .mp3 - Mp3, .flac - Flac), however since is only a container format .mp4 could store Apple Lossless or AAC, so not always going to be a one-one correspondance, perhaps I need to add audiocontainerformat as well, or something a bit snappier ?

paultaylor · 14 January 2020 15:14

Tim, this is now all done in SongKong 4.13 - http://blog.jthink.net/2017/11/songkong-413-high-definition-release.html

TimBlup · 14 January 2020 15:14

Hi Paul,
Before you came up with the new version 4.13 of SongKong, I may have overdone the experiments of tagging masks.
Starting ip SongKong and trying to edit the masks, I don’t see the examples anymore. Adding a new mask gives me the constantly the message “Mask is invalid, it must be a valid javascript expression”.
My question: How can I uninstall SongKong best to get a new fresh SongKong installed again?
with kind regards.

paultaylor · 14 January 2020 15:14

Hi Tim

You just need to delete the songkong.properties file in your user folder (not install folder) then on next start SongKong will copy over a fresh copy. Details of where it is for different operating systems can be found in this blog post - http://blog.jthink.net/2017/07/songkong-another-way-to-install-license.html

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