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BenediktAlkin / SongTaggerForSpotify

Song tagging for Spotify
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A couple of suggestions for better organization purposes #5

Closed TechnicBRICKs closed 2 years ago

TechnicBRICKs commented 2 years ago

I've tried you tool and I'm happy you took the effort to address a feature requested by so many Spotify users! It is already amazing by I found a couple of improvement opportunities that I' like to leave here as suggestions.

1) As a user I'd like to be able to alphabetically sort my created tags.

2) If possible I'd like to see my library which is organized in folders, also appearing organized in the same folders, under "All". My use case: I've an huge library, which I organize into year folders (the original song year release, usually not the same year of the album in Spotify). Then it would be much easier to handle tagging in smaller chunks then all together. Also as I get new entries added, they go into one specific folder (SoundHound) as this is one way I feed my library with new songs. Again it would be much easier to look at this folder only for new tagging, than picking untagged songs probably among thousands of other songs.

BenediktAlkin commented 2 years ago
  1. The tag organization still needs some work. I plan to implement "tag groups" (e.g. language, genre) to help organize tags at some point. With that there will most likely be the functionality to reorder tags by drag & drop.
  2. Playlist folders are not supported by the Spotify API (see limitations) so there sadly is no way to do that.

A ugly workaround for having only new music in the Untagged Songs metaplaylist is to assign some tag to your whole library. This can be easily done with a playlist generator: Meta Playlist Input with All --> AssignTag e.g. with "not-new". Then once you add new music, the Untagged Songs playlist contains only songs that are really new.

TechnicBRICKs commented 2 years ago

Thanks you for your explanations!

  1. It looks promising!
  2. I had not understood what was really the limitation from the API with folders, i.e. did not understand you do not receive the folder information for each music at all (this is a pity). Although your ugly suggestion will work, this would be useful to "reuse" my my previous separation work already done, and to make things more visual. But it is what it is! Hope your work gets plenty of visibility and may incentive Spotify to improve their API and/or implement such feature on their own.

Kudos!!

BenediktAlkin commented 2 years ago

v1.1.0 just released with the feature to create Tag Groups (the app updates automatically if you haven't disabled that option)