Newbie with a couple of suggestions and questions

[Edwin]

Hi,

After searching I found Sliverjuke. It got my attention because I loved the looks of it. Downloaded the trail and thinking this could be the one.

For me the most inportant thing are,
Coverart
Plays all audio formats
Looks
Fast

It does all that. So all most perfect for me.

Downside,
Tagging. I miss Vorbis Comments, ID3v2, APEv2 tag.
I use MP3Tag

If I choose track combine album folder, it shows me Artist name, Album name and variable years. I think If one folder is combining same artist, different albums it should not mention one album name but more like Miscellaneous or something like that.
The same thing with the songs that showing in that particular folder. Now it shows track level. I think it's better in order year, album name, track or even better let the user deside what he prefer.

I know now I'm gonna buy Silverjuke. I really liked it. Hope someone can help me out with the suggestions.

[Service-Team]

Hello Edwin,

first: Welcome aboard! To your questions:

> Downside, Tagging. I miss Vorbis Comments,
> ID3v2, APEv2 tag.

Well - all these tags are supported (or we have not understood your problem). Silverjuke reads the following tags formats ...

ID3v1, ID3v2, APE, Vorbis Comment, WMA-tags, MP4-tags

... which are used in the following file types:

mp1, mp2, mp3, ogg, flac, wma, mp+, mpc, ape, wv, m4a, mp4, aac, alac and more

Writing support is enabled for ID3v1, ID3v2, APE and Vorbis Comment.

> I use MP3Tag

Great - the tags written with external applications can be read by Silverjuke then.

> [...] I think it's better in order year, album name,
> track or even better let the user deside what he
> prefer.

For the "album view" and for the "cover view", you can set the ordering at "Settings / My music library / Combine tracks to albums":

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For the "list view", just click the column headers to change the ordering - the current sort order is marked by a little triangle:

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Edwin, we hope, we could give you some tips -
best regards,
Your Silverjuke Team

[Edwin]

Hi,

Thank you for the fast answer.
I don't think it's clear enough.

As you can see on the picture. The two albums are in one folder. The tags are allright. But on the first album you see the cover and album name "From Elvis Presley Boulevard, Memphis, Tennessee".
I think because there are more albums in the same folder the album name shouldn't be "From Elvis Presley Boulevard, Memphis, Tennessee". It should be blank or Miscellaneous or something like that. There's only two song from that particular album in that folder. In reality there are songs from 23 albums. And now it looks like all the song are from that same album.
The second cover is from the same folder. And now no artist name and no album name only "Unsorted Tracks". And the tagging is as it should.
You can see the settings are different from what you get.

[Service-Team]

Well, it's hard to make an analysis without having access to all the files. Also, it is not clear how the directory structure is like and which album you do expect ... maybe you can add some paths here?

However, here are our assumptions and hints:

- if you expect only one album - maybe the three tracks on the right album have a slightly different spelling - an additional space, a missing comma, different case or sth. like that

- you have selected the option "with corresponding [directory]" - for this option, make sure, all files belonging to *one* album are really placed in the *same* directory - and not in subdirectories.

- if you really want to use "with corresponding [directory]", you should also try "An Album must have at least [1] track" - the "Unsorted" album on the right albums should be named "Elvis" then (it is "Unsorted" because just three tracks are no album by *your* definition)

- have you tried the default option "with corresponding [artst/album]"?

[Edwin]

After over a week playing with Silverjuke it convince me and purchase a license. And that's rare for me.

Still I do have a issue sorting it.
1 folder Artists spread all over.
Settings are 1 track album corresponding Artist/Album/Genre.
I have a couple of folders, tags Artist/Title/Year/Genre.
I like to have 1 folder showing all the tracks that's inside like a various album.

My suggestion, all the track same artist name. The real artist name in Original Artist.
But I can't search for Orginal Artist.
Having the pointer on artist. Don't want to change that.

If it's not possible what I want. Maybe a suggestion, give the user the search options in Settings.