Easy/fast nested nodes & FilesToEdit hiding (09Nov08)

[spacefish]

Perfect. Thank you. I'll take a look at your updated version. Though I'm not totally brain dead (I have experience coding HTML and CSS), I admit I do feel a little overwhelmed with the scripting. I'll try not to ask too many stupid questions.

[nynaevelan]

Perfect. Thank you. I'll take a look at your updated version. Though I'm not totally brain dead (I have experience coding HTML and CSS), I admit I do feel a little overwhelmed with the scripting. I'll try not to ask too many stupid questions.

Fear not, Sbondi is very knowledgeable and willing to help you as best he can. I hope you enjoy using this script as much as I do.

Nyn

[spacefish]

Thanks, everyone. This script is fun! And it's definitely easier with the easyCriteria.

Request for 'Type' support. I'd like to make a To Convert node where the tracks are not mp3. I convert all my flac files to mp3 to save space and to stuff my portable. I'm not a fan of on-the-fly conversion. If that could be added, I'd be extremely jazzed.

Thanks!

[sbondi]

Thanks, everyone. This script is fun! And it's definitely easier with the easyCriteria.

Request for 'Type' support. I'd like to make a To Convert node where the tracks are not mp3. I convert all my flac files to mp3 to save space and to stuff my portable. I'm not a fan of on-the-fly conversion. If that could be added, I'd be extremely jazzed.

Thanks!

Most things are supported for single-level nodes ... only a multi-level node requiring that field as a level needs additional support. Do you need to have something like "Date Added \ Type"? Or do you just need a single node filtering on "Type". The "trackCriteria" for this would be:

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trackCriteria="(SongPath NOT GLOB '*.mp3')"

Let me know if that worked for you.

I will add an "easyCriteria" for this ("NotMP3") in the update later today. And I will also add a level for FileType just in case.

[spacefish]

Oh, that is awesome! What a great script!

No, as I envision what I want to add, I just need a single-level node that tells me when I've got flac, ogg, shn files in my library so I can convert them to mp3. So in other words, NOT mp3. The date they went in is not really important since the goal is to convert everything.

Thanks so much for the extra time you're taking to help me out. I really appreciate it.

[sbondi]

Oh, that is awesome! What a great script!

No, as I envision what I want to add, I just need a single-level node that tells me when I've got flac, ogg, shn files in my library so I can convert them to mp3. So in other words, NOT mp3. The date they went in is not really important since the goal is to convert everything.

Thanks so much for the extra time you're taking to help me out. I really appreciate it.

You are welcome

Since you only need a single node, did you create a node with the trackCriteria in my last post? Did it work for you? It should be good to go.

FYI, I already added it to the script that I will upload later today, so you could create a level with the different file types under separate nodes

[spacefish]

Haha! Yes, it worked great AND I found out I had a lot of tracks where the extension, .mp3, was in CAPS. So it ignored .mp3 and displayed .MP3. I don't know if I care or not. I'll probably change them all to lowercase but I think I'll have to do it by hand.

Thanks!

[sbondi]

Haha! Yes, it worked great AND I found out I had a lot of tracks where the extension, .mp3, was in CAPS. So it ignored .mp3 and displayed .MP3. I don't know if I care or not. I'll probably change them all to lowercase but I think I'll have to do it by hand.

Thanks!

I forgot that GLOB is case-sensitive. You can use LIKE for a non-case sensitive search:

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"(SongPath NOT LIKE '%.mp3')"

Also, you can rename them in a Windows command window:

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ren *.MP3 *.mp3

[spacefish]

Thanks so much, you're super!

[sbondi]

Check out the updated version (in the original post link) with support for more levels:

FileType,
Composer, BPM, InvolvedPeople, Custom1/2/3/4/5 (thanks, Nyn!)

[dreadlyone]

nynaevelan, can you post up your "ini" file? I like what you did and want to see how you did it. I understand a little on how to build and customize the ini file, but I think that if I saw yours, I would get a better handle on it.

Thanks in advance.

Sure here is a copy of my .ini file:

Also, here is what my custom Files To Edit Node looks like, I have hidden all the features which I do not use. I use Bex's Tagging Inconsistensies Script for most of my editing needs.


Nyn

Thanks, appreciate it a lot.

[sbondi]

Based on nyn's great input, I generalized my "levels" support a bit, so that I can easily add support for new levels with little effort. A bunch more levels are now supported with this release

[spacefish]

Hi Steve,

I just installed the latest .vbs and I get the following upon starting MM:



Everything else seems to be working though.

[spacefish]

Is there a way I can make a node that will show me tracks from only one directory and its subdirectories? I tried a couple expressions using SongPath but I couldn't make it work properly.

For example, I move all new downloaded files to be edited into E:\Unsorted. Stuff in here is kept in subdirectories by album and the files aren't usually tagged. Your script catches those untagged files perfectly with Set 'Artist', 'Title' etc. Once/if it is tagged though, I don't want to organize them before I review them. If they could all fall under one node, that would be ideal.

[nynaevelan]

Hi Steve,

I just installed the latest .vbs and I get the following upon starting MM:



Everything else seems to be working though.

The name of the easycriteria field was changed in the latest version change your ini file to WithGuestArtist.

Nyn