snejus
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3 years ago That's literally what I'm about to release in a couple of days. By default a singleton has 0 use with its limited metadata. I saw that beets 1.5.0 removes that limitation, so we can go ahead with it. For example, that's data I'm currently getting for a track that only exists on its own bandcamp.com/track/track-name without an associated album:
(new) album: Matriark - Arangel
(new) albumstatus: Official
(new) albumtype: single
artist: Matriark
(new) catalognum: ''
comments: "mt004\r\n\r\nmastering by alexander salomonsen\r\n\r\n\r\nI'm very happy\
\ to announce Andrea's debut track. <3\r\n\r\nhttps://soundcloud.com/matriarkcph\r"
(new) country: SE
data_source: bandcamp
(new) day: 9
(adding soon)genre: ''
id: 1777
(new) label: Megatech
media: Digital Media
(new) month: 11
title: Arangel
(new) year: 2020Basically, there used to be only track_id, title, artist and roughly track_alt available - you should see this when you try to import a singleton from musicbrainz - the output is ridiculously limited.
I just set the albumtype to single and ensure that both artist and the title are found in the album name, and the rest is generic metadata. I organise my folders by label at the top level, for example:
- Sinensis: two partial albums with a single track each
- Ute.Rec: three full albums. You can tell First Light is a compilation because tracks have artists names in them (and there's no artist name in the album folder name)
- UNNAMED (UNMD) artist has only released standalone tracks - so they live just below the top level. This is the case I refered to above. Since it's now possible to attach additional metadata, it's possible to organise them like this. It isn't though supported (unless I'm unaware) by the default musicbrainz autotagger :(
Sinensis ├── Alpha Tracks - SINE03 │ └── 02. Odondo.flac └── Omformer - SINE04 └── 02. Orbital.flac Ute.Rec ├── First Light │ ├── 01. Pyramid of Knowledge - Initiations.flac │ ├── 02. Giorgo Celeste and The Cobra - The Other Side.flac │ ├── 03. Ezy - Candy Flip.flac │ ├── 04. CenterSonic - BumBum25 (Jaro Remake).flac │ ├── 05. OT2 - O2matic.flac │ ├── 06. Clementz - Fundament.flac │ ├── 07. Rapid - Moonray (Tur Retur Frankfurt Mix).flac │ ├── 08. Omformer - Feel.flac │ ├── 09. Kineta - Cosmic Flux.flac │ ├── 10. Mikkel Rev - Amneo.flac │ ├── 11. Alpha Tracks - World Fair.flac │ ├── 12. Mr. Free - Time 2 B Free.flac │ ├── 13. HLLW - Elg I Soloppgang.flac │ └── 14. Wilberforce - Unio Mystica.flac ├── Mikkel Rev - UTE004 │ ├── 01. The Human Experience (Empathy Mix).flac │ ├── 02. Parallell.flac │ ├── 03. Formulae.flac │ └── 04. Biotope.flac └── The Dosadi Experiments - UTE005 ├── 01. The Hidden World.flac ├── 02. Arrival.flac ├── 03. Gowatchin Rituals.flac └── 04. Winds Of Tandaloor.flac UNNAMED (UNMD) ├── UNNAMED (UNMD) - Jean-Kevin and La ThugLife.flac ├── UNNAMED (UNMD) - Le Monde Merveilleux des Gens Heureux.flac └── UNNAMED (UNMD) - On l'appelait _Kevin and le grand Magicien_.flac
Would it be possible to add an option for when an artists relaeases a track as a single to be treated as an album?