The Music Library Management blog

Dan Gravell

I'm Dan, the founder and programmer of bliss. I write bliss to solve my own problems with my digital music collection.

Release 20120501 - enforce singular embedded artwork

Enforce singular embedded artwork setting

This release contains a number of bug fixes and small improvements, and also the added functionality of a new 'enforce singular embedded artwork' rule.

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Music data pipelines

Kuwait, Persian Gulf Region, and Bechtel Construction; about 1950

The metadata in your music files contains important identifying and classifier information. These tags make your music collection more searchable, navigable and all round easier-to-use. Fortunately, several online music databases offer a wealth of information that you can use to improve your digital music library.

If it's so easy to source extra data for your music collection then it's tempting to add more and more data, but this adds a maintenance burden because you must ensure your own customisations of that data are repeated. Thinking about retrieving data and tagging this information in your music files as a pipeline that can be documented and repeated helps solve inconsistencies that can emerge.

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Release 20120417

spelling test

This new release contains a number of bug fixes and small improvements to functionality... including one long standing change I have meant to make for a while: renaming uncompliant to non-compliant!

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Track number was unset

Track number was unset screenshot

This week: a video tutorial of how to use bliss's new web based tag editor to fix 'track number was unset' messages in the file organisation rule.

"Track number was unset" is a message given by the file organisation rule when the rule attempts to construct a target, ideal file path for one of your music files but does not have the data required to do so. If you include the <tracknumber> token in your file structure pattern bliss will look for the track number tagged inside your music files. If there is no such track number, you get this error message.

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Release 20120403 - web based tag editor

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At last: web based tag editing!

This new release adds the ability to edit tags in the tag editor. This has been a long requested feature, and I think it will be a useful adjunct to bliss's other 'higher level' features.

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