Artist removed from folder name? (Alphabetical sort revisit)

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themossie
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Artist removed from folder name? (Alphabetical sort revisit)

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Artist names are now removed from the folder name for some folders, and this is screwing up my folder structure all to heck :-(

Played around with MediaType, Sort MediaFiler Folder Selector, Sort files by filenames, etc without any luck.

In the changelog for Build 3218: NEW: Update: add Tip & Alphabetically View to Listtype (personalSettings.view) - can't find this option, but would this help me? Is this different from "Sort files by filenames" or "Sort albums by foldernames"?

This is so far my only problem with MadSonic, which is in most regards pure awesomeness. Any suggestions?

Example illustrated below:
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Directory structure is MediaFolder --> GENRE ---> (Artist - Year - Album Name) and should display as the following:

Media
Music (untagged)
Music (tagged) --> !Electronic (Techno, Trance, Hardcore, Dubstep, D&B, etc) -->
  • Infected Mushroom - 2000 - Classical Mushroom
  • Infected Mushroom - 2003 - Converting Vegetarians
  • Infected Mushroom - 2007 - Vicious Delicious
  • Ratatat - 2004 - Ratatat
It used to display as above (alphabetical foldername order) in Subsonic 4.7? (newest version as of beginning of 2013). After upgrading to MadSonic 4.7.x (now 4.8.3340 Beta3) it now appears as:

Music (tagged) --> !Electronic (Techno, Trance, Hardcore, Dubstep, D&B, etc) -->
  • 2007 - Vicious Delicious
  • 2004 - Ratatat
  • 2000 - Classical Mushroom
  • Infected Mushroom - 2003 - Converting Vegetarians
The artist name disappeared for some folders, except for Converting Vegetarians, which is a 2-CD album).

Enabling "Sort albums by foldernames" doesn't fix anything, sorting by year (Artist Name - Year - Album becomes Year - Album) with results below:

Music (tagged) --> !Electronic (Techno, Trance, Hardcore, Dubstep, D&B, etc) -->
  • 2000 - Classical Mushroom
  • 2004 - Ratatat
  • 2007 - Vicious Delicious
  • Infected Mushroom - 2003 - Converting Vegetarians
Now Ratatat shows up in the middle of Infected Mushroom albums, and Converting Vegetarians is out of order.

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Any help is appreciated, preferably not involving a complete folder restructure.

Thank you in advance!
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Re: Artist removed from folder name? (Alphabetical sort revi

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+1 got the exact same bug in madsonic when using xbmc plugin. its just pain in the ass to brows 40k tracks whitout knowing the artist name. I can only see trackname
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Re: Artist removed from folder name? (Alphabetical sort revi

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still the same problem!
MADSONIC 5.1.5200.20141017.1252

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Re: Artist removed from folder name? (Alphabetical sort revi

Unread post by Dylansama »

I have a feeling this isn't a bug but a feature. I've got the same "problem" on certain folder entries, but haven't found the root cause.

I think it might be related to this setting "Enable Foldername Parsing". Even though the help says its only for removing Year tag from directory name...I have a feeling maybe other features were tacked on? Just a guess though, there are lots of additional parse foldername features now...I haven't had the time to uncheck them and constantly rescan (big library).
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