Re: One more on sort order...

On Sat, 6 Mar 2004 17:35:22 -0800, Sean Hafeez <bawb@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>hum. no thanks. since itunes and my ipod and winamp can get it right
>one would think that the audioton should be able to.
>
>thanks tho.
>

Yeah, I know what you mean--this would seem like an idiotically simple
thing for the AT to do.  I have used a TOC generator that can fold the tag
names (change "The Doors" to "Doors, The"), but I lost it when I switched
computers and it's no longer available online.  I have taken to editing
the TOC file (generated with Audiostation) and running a few Emacs
commands over it.  One day, I'll write a Perl script or something and post
it somewhere.

It's not the Artist name tags that both me so much, but with even my
modest collection of 4000 tracks (there are AT users with 6 times as many
or more), track-name searches become tedious if all of the tracks
beginning with "A ", "An " and "The " sort together.  Of course, the names
show up on the display in the "folded" form, but to me it's far better
than the alternative.

For Emacs/Xemacs users (likely to be very few 8^)), the commands I use are
(in this order):
  (replace-regexp "TIT2=\([0-1][0-1] - \)" "TIT2=" nil)
  (replace-regexp "^\(TALB\|TPE1\|TIT2\)=\(A\|a\|An\|an\|The\|the\)
\(.*$\)" "\1=\3, \2" nil)
  (replace-string "The, The" "The The" nil)

The first command gets rid of the track-number prefixes of the few tracks
that I have labelled with them (i.e., "01 - blahblahblah" becomes
just "blahblahblah").  The second command does the name folding trick on
track, album and artist tags.  The last command is because I have a couple
of albums by the band "The The" and relabelling their name as "The, The"
doesn't help anything ;-).

Since I only regenerate my TOC when I rip new albums (once or twice a
month), this isn't a big deal.  I never let the AT generate its own TOC--
almost all of my collection is ripped to WMA files, and it handles
indexing them very slowly and makes many mistakes.

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