[Abcde-users] bug list: up to date?

[Steve McIntyre]

On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 12:03:02PM -0600, Alan W. Kerr wrote:
>well, I've been hand-correcting and hand-adding to abcde since the late 2.6
>versions and it's about time to see if these can be officially added...
>
>fixes:
>genre... there are multiple places that genreid (numerical code), cdgenre
>(text genres), and genre/GENRE/Genre (various uses as a temp variable) are
>incorrectly used.  Most seem to have been fixed but there are still some...
>also I was going to correct the spelling and make it match what eyed3 uses
>(bug 106) and also add the "third tier" of genres, 148-191, see "eyeD3 -P
>genres".

OK, cool. Genres are something I basically don't use myself, so I've
not seen any problems. :-)

>new things:
>Album Artist:
>ability to set the Artist as the Album Artist for Various albums.  for
>example, in file naming, rather than Various/Winter Solstice/<trackname>, you
>could name it Windham Hill/Winter Solstice/<trackname> so that *every*
>various album is not under Various.

OK.

>disc number:
>I've added Disc Number and Total Discs (was never happy with the simplistic
>-W switch).   This fills the TPOS tag and can be used in filenames.  I've
>been ripping flac whole-disc backups and naming them
>
>${ARTISTFILE}_--_${ALBUMFILE}_--_disc_${DISCNUMBER}_of_${DISCTOTAL}

Nice!

>cue file naming:
>I've got one transparent change to cue file naming

ACK.

>I've got a few other "ideas"... but they need various bugs to be fixed first.

Cool. :-)

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