Re: One more on sort order...

Thanks for the EMACS command. I am going to have to go thru it and see
if I can use your logic to do the same thing in VI as EMACS is EVIL ;)

I am using iTOC on a Mac running OS X to make my file. It grabs the
info from the iTunes index.

One would think that doing this 'THE RIGHT WAY' would be simple enough
for the Turtle engineers to do (HINT HINT HINT for any Turtle people
reading this..)

Right now I am trying to figure out why it does not respect the song
order in the MP3 ID Tags. I have them set right now for v2.3.

My atrontc.vtc has something like this....

SONG
FILE=Forgive Me.mp3
DIR =Godsmack\Awake\
TIT2=Forgive Me
TPE1=Godsmack
TALB=Awake
TRCK=8
TLEN=259
END

But when viewing the Album in the web interface it will A-to-Z the song
names. They do not play in the right order. I had a windows boxen I
might try to look at the TOC file from the software that came with the
AudioTron.  BTW, I lost the CD. Anyone know where I can download it?

I am running 3.1.1 but I am working on the 2.2.25 update right now -
Takes awhile to reboot and load 12K songs with out the TOC file!

Thanks,

Sean

On Mar 7, 2004, at 2:04 PM, Mike Scott wrote:

> 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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