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Compilations : new beta feature of different rename mask

I am curious about the uses of this feature. For those who have requested it, can you provide an example of your rename mask for “normal” tracks and then yours for a track that is part of a compilation and why?

(Please use a real track from a real compilation in your example)

I am just trying to see if I am not considering something that might possibly help with my organization in the future. I think I am not seeing something clearly about the use of the “Is Compilation?” tag and how to work with it.

I think the basic premise is that for Various Artist albums users would like to use Album Artist rather than Artist so that the album tracks don’t get separated. Because Jaikoz lets you do things at track level rather than folder level I use the compilation flag to achieve this, because Various Artist albums should always be marked as compilations.

Why not use Album Artist all the time because often is is not populated.

Also I think some people like to keep their Compilation’s albums separate from their ‘Original Albums’,

[quote=paultaylor]I think the basic premise is that for Various Artist albums users would like to use Album Artist rather than Artist so that the album tracks don’t get separated. Because Jaikoz lets you do things at track level rather than folder level I use the compilation flag to achieve this, because Various Artist albums should always be marked as compilations.

Why not use Album Artist all the time because often is is not populated.

Also I think some people like to keep their Compilation’s albums separate from their ‘Original Albums’,
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Hrmm…right now I autocorrect, then make sure if it is an album like “Songs from the 80s”, that each track has an artist (used in the mask for filename), then album artist is “Various Artists”, so the mask for folders uses %bestartist% to stick those tracks into a folder named for the album in my various artists folder. I guess it works for me since I try to make sure the album artist field is populated. I guess having a compilation mask works even if the album artist isn’t populated.

and @bestartist@ doesnt help if you want your compilation albums to go into
Music/Various Albums

and your original albums to go into

Music/Original

Right now the way i name compilations are for example Various Artists and in this case Nightmare Revisited and for the tracks its track number - artist - track name

Folder Name
Various Artists - Nightmare Revisited

Tracks
02 - Danny Elfman - Opening

How would i go about with naming to continue this method for compilations, soundtracks.