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🎧 Listen to audio books 📚 on Linux
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Way to have Cozy get Author name and Book title from Folders, not metadata? #694

Closed ReaderGuy42 closed 2 years ago

ReaderGuy42 commented 2 years ago

Feature description

I really like Cozy, and it already helped me as it told me that some files were corrupted, which is cool. However, after finally getting it installed (thanks for that, guys!!) I'm now having issues with the metadata. Some of the books that came from Audible work fine, but others that I found on Youtube don't have metadata and I can't get Cozy to work with the tags/metadata I've tried adding with EasyTags or Piccard.

Is there a way to have Cozy recognize the author's name and book title from the folders that the files are in?

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geigi commented 2 years ago

Hey :) This feature has already been requested some time ago. But after thinking about it I decided that this won't be implemented. You can read the reasoning here: #612 and #649

Im using Easytag myself and it works quite well for me. The following tags will get recognized by Cozy: 
Album Name 
Artist (the Reader of the Book) 
Composer (the Author of the book) 
Track Name (Chapter Name) 
An album cover if you like

Composer and artist usage can be swapped in settings though.

ReaderGuy42 commented 2 years ago

Ah cool, I didn't know the thing about Composer, thanks, I'll try that :)

ReaderGuy42 commented 2 years ago

Just another quick question: When I edit the Composer, Cozy sees that, but it seems that it recognizes the first and last name of the author as two separate authors instead of being part of the same. So it's seeing "Smith, Joe" as "Smith" and "Joe" instead of one. I also tried not using the comma but it had the same result. How do I have Smith, Joe as a single author? Thanks :)

geigi commented 2 years ago

Separating names with "," will indeed be detected as separate authors or readers. If you remove the "," in easytag and save the files, a refresh in cozy should detect this and it will be detected as a single name, e.g. "Joe Smith"

geigi commented 2 years ago

Maybe disabling this Automation deserves a setting tough

ReaderGuy42 commented 2 years ago

Ok, that would be cool, just because that's how I (and maybe others) have it organized anyways. Thanks :) Should I close this issue or leave it open for the Comma thing?

geigi commented 2 years ago

Let's open a separate issue for this feature :)