Feature Request: Various Artists/Compilations help

[jcdberkeley]

I love this program; it's impossibly stylish and functional :)

That said, I've got a request...

I have a lot of soundtracks and compilations, and currently if I want to add art to them using CD Art Display, I need a new .jpg for every single track in order to conform to the 'Artist - Album Title' convention used.

I wanted to know if it would be possible to include two things...
1) A new option to search the Covers folder for *just* 'Album Title.jpg', added to the list of current search methods.
2) An option to click, when searching, to designate the album found as 'Compilation' or maybe 'Various Artists'; this option would save it as merely 'Album Title.jpg' (instead of the normal 'Artist - Album Title.jpg') so that it can be found with the option I suggest above.


Much as I love CD Art Display, I really can't be bothered to copy/paste the same album art 36 times to get art for all the tracks on the Forrest Gump Soundtrack! ;) Not to mention dance compilations, etc.

Thanks for all your hard work and, by far, the coolest album art display I've ever seen :D

[Carlos]

Before I can help you:

1) Do you have all your "Compilations" in one single folder? No subfolder for each CD? Just a folder with all mp3? Please, tell me how you organize your songs.

2) Are you using CAD RC5?

[jcdberkeley]

Ah, no, my compilations (and everything else) are arranged in one massively huge folder, with Artist - Song Title.mp3 as the only thing in the filenames. If I have a song twice, like on a single and an album, I tack on '(Single)' or something at the end of the name.

I started organizing that way like 7 years ago and dont want to reorganize it; I'd lose all my metadata in Winamp if every file got renamed and moved :s None of my CDs have their own folders.

I am using RC5 Build 3.

...I suppose I could set up CD Art Display to always save just the Album title, and to always search for just the Album title in %coverfolder%, but then albums with the same name by different artists would get hosed... hrm! If nothing else, I'll add a search for '%coverfolder%%album%.jpg' and manually edit the filenames when they're saved as %coverfolder%%artist% - %album%.jpg

[Carlos]

I think yours is the best way to handle it:

Download:
%coverfolder%%album%.jpg

Read cover:
%coverfolder%%artist% - %album%.jpg
%coverfolder%%album%.jpg

Note that "%coverfolder%%artist% - %album%.jpg" should be the first list item!!

:)

[Alec Tronic]

Hi,
I am facing the same issue...and Carlos: When I handle it this way, the problem is like jcdberkeley described:
For example there are two albums named "Remixed" from tow different artists, there is a conflict between these two covers... :-[

[Carlos]

CAD has a very flexible way to work with a music collection but it won't cover everything for sure. Sometimes we have to tweak the way we organize our collection too.

[OtisBee]

CAD has a very flexible way to work with a music collection but it won't cover everything for sure. Sometimes we have to tweak the way we organize our collection too.


wisely spoken! ;D