[WS] Discogs (pone mod), all discogs information in tags & lyrics, based on dano's scri Options

[pone]

Latest version with working search is here.


Newest version: 4.unifinished 4 (uploaded 31.05.2012) (Search is not working in this version):
 Discogs_Pone_Mod_4.unfinished_4.zip ( 54.69K ) Number of downloads: 1794



Script Installation & Usage:
- use Mp3tag 2.50 (or newer) -
1. Download the zip file & extract it.
2. Move the extracted folders into the Mp3Tag profile folder: %appdata%\Mp3tag\
(just copy&paste this into windows explorer adress bar).
3.a if you install my script for the first time:
Move the Discogs Pone 4 Web Script Settings.mp3 file into the Mp3Tag profile folder.
3.b if you update my script:
Delete the new Discogs Pone 4 Web Script Settings.mp3 file and keep your old one.
4. Load Discogs Pone Web Script Settings.mp3 into Mp3tag.
5. ▼ Run this action group: Discogs Pone>Update Settings Mp3 File.
6. Open the Extended Tags Window and edit the tag-field values of Discogs Pone 4 Web Script Settings.mp3 to customize the script.
7. ▼ Run this action group: Discogs Pone>Create Scripts .
8. ▼ Now you can use the web scripts.

The Discogs Pone 4 Web Script Settings.mp3 file stores your settings for the script. Do not overwrite it with the new settings mp3 file when you update the script.

Delete the new Discogs Pone 4 Web Script Settings.mp3 file when you update the scirpt and you have the file already from an earlier 4.x version of the script.

The old Discogs Pone Web Script Settings.mp3 file from the discogs pone mod 3.x is not compatible with the new 4.x script. Maybe I will make an update action which gets your old settings to the new file. So keep your old setting file for the time being. But I'm not sure about that.

You don't have to run the export files manually, the are started by the action groups.
To change the options of the script at any time, reapeat steps 6 & 7.


What the script does:
- it can write all information from discogs in whatever tag-fields you like
- you have many different options how to format/combine/split/choose the discogs information
- you have 16 different ways to search for a release at discogs
- you have a extra script for releases which have more than one song in one track (tracklist for multi song tracks)
- you have a extra script for mp3s where you have the whole album in one file (tracklist for DJ Sets in one file). If the discogs page gives the tracklengths for that release, you can have a action which generates a .cue file based on the tracklength and names from discogs.


Version 4, what has changed?

NEW:
Basically it's all new, but the biggest changes are:

- It is now based on Discogs API, not on Discogs HTML pages any more. This will it make more stable in the future.

- The setting file is now completely different. It has now 9 sections instead of the over 100 different fields.
Each section is one tag field. In these sections you have now the different options in different lines. Do NEVER change the text before this ">" character there.

- The artitst names can be written in many different ways now. More explanation on that in a few days.
It's the most complicated part of the script.

UNFINISHED:
- I haven't made any automatic update action yet. You will have to addapt the Discogs Pone 4 Web Script Settings.mp3 file yourself from the start.

- Help texts / documentation is not fully done yet. The newly aranged setting file will have a help text at the end of each section in the file. I have only started to write these help text and they are very uncomplete

INSTALLATION:
Same as before. But skip the Discogs Pone>Update Settings Mp3 File action (Installation Step 5)! Don't use it!
Use the new settings file from the download and use only the Discogs Pone>Create Scripts action. This action does take much longer than before. Over a minute on my laptop. This is due to the many regular expressions involved in the export scripts. So don't cancel the action when you think it has hang up. It hasn't, only takes some time.


Anleitung und weitere Erklärungen auf Deutsch hier (nicht mehr ganz aktuell, betrifft noch die alte 3.x Version)

This post has been edited by dano: Jan 30 2013, 21:16

[KrissO]

What points are unclear?
I gave a step by step instruction in the starting post:
http://forums.mp3tag.de/index.php?showtopi...ost&p=41277

I am sorry, everything works like a charm now. I must say your script is almost PERFECT!

Is here a way to.
1. Auto run actions after I have clicked ok in the tag information window?
2. Auto save after actions is run (instead of ctrl+s)

Good work, keep it up!

[pone]

I am sorry, everything works like a charm now. I must say your script is almost PERFECT!

Is here a way to.
1. Auto run actions after I have clicked ok in the tag information window?
2. Auto save after actions is run (instead of ctrl+s)

Good work, keep it up!

1. no, it's not possible to combine actions and web sources in one automatic process.
but you can tell me about your actions, maybe i can integrate them as options in the script


2. after actions (and also after web sources) there is always a auto save.
the only "exception" is for multivalue tags. the seperator there \\ is read as literals when you write them with actions or web sources. the only way to transform \\ into mutlivalue field seperators is ctrl+s. there is also no way to change that at the moment. i have already made a feature request to Florian to change that in Mp3tag. Maybe it will come in the future.