IcedQuinn
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10 months ago I have listened to podcasts by rewriting the tags. However, Cozy doesn't like that for a different reason.
Adding a new episode appears as a chapter in a book. Removing an old episode shows up as a chapter whos file has just gone missing. So old episodes accumulate as dead chapters and you have to delete the book entirely to reset it all.
besides audio books i listen to a lot of audio drama, short stories, and podcasts, and unfortunately they don't usually follow the title/author/reader struture of audio books. in fact it's a mess.
i do not like to make changes to files since that makes them different from the originally downloaded file, but even if i would want to to that, i have way to many files to fix them all manually.
as a workaround i am patching cozy to show filenames in appropriate places.
[x] a simple change to show the name and filename of a chapter in the tooltip. useful when the chapter data is missing important information such as the episode number https://gitlab.com/eMBee/cozy/-/commit/3282baedb5887ac4d091676e96ebe7ec24a7febe
[x] search also in chapter names and file paths. amateur audio drama and podcasts are often inconsistent with how they fill title and name fields. even within the same series titles change and it can be very confusing. short of cleaning up the data for thousands of files the only way fix this is to sort them in a clean directory structure. by adding the chapter name and file paths to be searched i can now find any file in my archive https://gitlab.com/eMBee/cozy/-/commit/9809de3c4a09c978123215bdc97aecd9daaa26ce
i am not making pull requests from those because i don't think this workaround is wanted by everyone, but i want to share it here in case someone finds it useful.