Advanced Title Display v1.19409384

[Sahborn]

Okay, I know that you guys must get asked this question basically every hour but I just can't work this out on my own.

I want to display my tracks as:

%artist% - %album% - %tracknumber% - %title%

But Because of certain Soundtracks and singles it just doesn't work properly for every song. As such I need to work out how to make the code such that it doesn't display that particular field unless it contains an entry. So far all of my attempts have failed and so I have turned to you.

I have tried out using the [] command ie:

[%artist% - ][%album% - ][%tracknumber% - ][%title%]

but that is obviously wrong. I think I am on the right path so someone more learned then me will hopefully be able to point out where I am going wrong pretty easily, but any help will be mucho appreciatedo.

[mikm]

Are you sure it doesn't work? I tried what you typed, and it works for me.

I think your problem is when there are NO tags. Then, it guess based on directory.

[DJ Egg]

I use the same ATF display
Artist - Album - Track# - Title

Here is the ATF string I use:

[%artist% - ][ %album% - ][ $num(%tracknumber%,2) - ] $if2(%title%,$filepart(%filename%))

If that doesn't work for you, then first,
make sure you update the playlist after making the change...

Playlist > Sel > Select All
Playlist > Misc > Misc > Read extended info on selection

If it still displays wrongly for all entries,
then m²k is most certainly thinking along the right lines.

First of all, tell us what filetypes are in your playlist.
eg. are they all mp3's?
Or are they a mix of formats?
eg. mp3, wma, ogg, wav, midi, mod, etc
Or are they filetypes which are handled by a 3rd-party input plugin?

Basically, we'll need to know if the filetypes you're using
a) support tagging
b) support metadata parsing
c) are actually tagged or not (eg. id3 tags for mp3)

There are various fixes / workarounds / tips available,
but try everything suggested so far, and if the problem persists, answer the questions, and then we'll take things from there...

Also, it will probably help if you supply a few examples, eg.
file path/name = x:\path\to\filename.ext
artist/album/title/track# tags = ?
displays in the playlist as = ?

[Sahborn]

thank you all for your replies so far

I tried what you guys suggested but I don't think I didnt communicate adequately what I meant, since your suggestions didn't seem to fix the problem. That string does work very well for most of my songs (All are MP3's btw), but I guess the best way to explain better is by example.

On Albums where there are multiple artists ie Soundtracks, if I use the set up I use for everything else it won't display it properly.

IE: The Animatrix Soundtrack would appear as
Peace Orchestra - Animatrix Soundtrack - 01 - Who am I (Animatrix Edit)
Free*Land - Animatrix Soundtrack - 02 - Big Wednesday
Layo & Bushwacka - Animatrix Soundtrack - 03 - Blind Tiger

etc

But if they are like that then I can't sort them properly and they just don't go with the rest of my collection (I am obsessive over things being properly organised :P)

The way which I would like the to be displayed would be like:

Animatrix Soundtrack - 01 - Peace Orchestra - Who am I (Animatrix Edit)
Animatrix Soundtrack - 02 - Free Land - Big Wednesday
Animatrix Soundtrack - 03 - Layo & Bushwacka - Blind Tiger


and the only way I can work out to do that if my title display is set up according to the current organisational method of

%artist% - %album% - %tracknumber% - %title%

would be to have

%Artist% - Animatrix Soundtrack
%album% - Blank
%tracknumber% - 01
and then put the artist in with the %Title% so it is like Peace Orchestra - Who am I (Animatrix Edit).

However if I leave the album section blank then Winamp 5 will auto fill it in, carrying on the example given, making that

Animatrix Soundtrack - Animatrix Soundtrack - 01 - Peace Orchestra - Who am I (Animatrix Edit)

The Filenames for all those songs are the same as I listed for what I would like to display in Winamp as a final note too.

(Hopefully this is a coherent post which hasn't left anythign out, since it is the middle of the night right now and I wan't to go to bed but would rather not leave this unfinished)

[DJ Egg]

Yeah, I see...


As you say, the workaround would be to change the tags (as in your example)

For compilations, I normally use "Various" for the Artist
and then put the actual album name in the Album field
and the 'artist - title' in the Title field.
I think that's basically how cddb does it (automatically).

Note: I rarely use the Sort options.
When adding new albums/trax to the playlist, I just drag the folder into the appropriate place in the PL via the Add File dialog (PL > Add > File).
I also store a separate A-Z playlist in the library, but the playlist I use most is more manually arranged (by genre/style).

Or, you could keep your original method, but you'll need to make one or two adjustments in the Prefs.

I'm not sure if you're using the Media Library or not, but you can try the following:

Prefs > Media Library:
Library Options tab:
Uncheck: Use library data for Winamp title-formatting
Media Importing tab:
Metadata Options > checkmark: No guessing

This will prevent Winamp from displaying the Containing Dir as the album name, when the Album field in the id3 tag is empty.

If you've already added these files to the library, then you can either remove then reload them, or just select all tracks for that album, and right click > Edit Selected Items, and remove the Album field (so it's blank).

Something like that anyway...