2024-02-21, 15:19
After spending oodles of time on the Sisyphean effort to Finally Tag All My Music Properly Once And For All <TM> it appears that I have shot myself in the foot big time. I have managed to use tags like
MusicBrainz Album Type = album/compilation/dj-mix
rather than
MusicBrainz Album Type = album / compilation / dj-mix
In other words, I haven't used " / " as a separator (i.e. a space-slash-space sequence as per the wiki) but "/", i.e. a slash without whitespace on either side. My bad. As a result the incorrectly tagged albums do not appear in the right categories.
The item separator can be overridden in advancedsettings.xml:
So presumably I can replace the itemseparator with a slash instead of whitespace-slash-whitespace. However, I'm sure there are properly tagged entries as well (i.e. using the whitespace-slash-whitespace sequence) so that may affect those tracks. I seem to remember having noticed that a leading or trailing whitespace character in a genre, album type etc. is interpreted by Kodi as a separate genre (i.e. "disco " is not the same as "disco"). So simply messing around with the itemseparator entry in advancedsettings.xml is likely to break things even more.
Is there a way for my to unshoot my foot and get Kodi to use both "/" and " / " as a separator, or am I going to have to go through 14,000+ files all over again to correct my stuff-ups?
(Update: a Musicbrainz Picard lookup produces multiple tags in yet a different format: album; compilation; dj-mix which is inconsistent with what the wiki says Kodi uses. And indeed it doesn't on my side. What's with that?)
// FvW
MusicBrainz Album Type = album/compilation/dj-mix
rather than
MusicBrainz Album Type = album / compilation / dj-mix
In other words, I haven't used " / " as a separator (i.e. a space-slash-space sequence as per the wiki) but "/", i.e. a slash without whitespace on either side. My bad. As a result the incorrectly tagged albums do not appear in the right categories.
The item separator can be overridden in advancedsettings.xml:
Code:
<musiclibrary>
<itemseparator> / </itemseparator>
<musiclibrary>
So presumably I can replace the itemseparator with a slash instead of whitespace-slash-whitespace. However, I'm sure there are properly tagged entries as well (i.e. using the whitespace-slash-whitespace sequence) so that may affect those tracks. I seem to remember having noticed that a leading or trailing whitespace character in a genre, album type etc. is interpreted by Kodi as a separate genre (i.e. "disco " is not the same as "disco"). So simply messing around with the itemseparator entry in advancedsettings.xml is likely to break things even more.
Is there a way for my to unshoot my foot and get Kodi to use both "/" and " / " as a separator, or am I going to have to go through 14,000+ files all over again to correct my stuff-ups?
(Update: a Musicbrainz Picard lookup produces multiple tags in yet a different format: album; compilation; dj-mix which is inconsistent with what the wiki says Kodi uses. And indeed it doesn't on my side. What's with that?)
// FvW