Multi-artist and multi-genre support

[Zetvue]

It's annoying this isn't a feature in Eole, yet vanilla Foobar2000 is fine.




ALL of this is tagged with the semicolon as a separator.

[magagonal]

The weird thing about this is that it's just how the left menu is formatted; if you press the artist name (but only from, like, the artist name in the tracklist for some reason) it'll show a split album or whatever alongside all the other artist's releases. But this is still a big issue; it makes a lot of splits & multi-genre stuff hard to organize.

[shadeMe]

@JadeTank Any idea how much effort it would take to implement support for multiple genres in the library filters?

[JadeTank]

@shadeMe If you mean the ability for splitting entries based on a separator, probably not too much? This is something I looked into in the past when I was a lot less experienced and wasn't able to figure it out then, but its been a while since then and I think it shouldn't be too much work. The library is based on https://github.com/Wil-B/Library-Tree which doesn't support multi-value fields but I think as long as it can be modified to split on a delimiter it could work.

For now what you can do is use the library tree, which can be set to view by genre and will split on multi value fields

[JadeTank]

Been working on this and have 99% working, just a few kinks to work out like some issues with title format sorting & item thumbnails not using the first item, but the basic functionality works and should be completed then added in a few days :)

[JadeTank]

I've attached the updated file here WSHfilter.zip

Please try it out by swapping the existing js file under profile > themes > eole > js, then set the grouping / sorting to default, and your genres / artists will now be split :)
Can also split groups on any tag by using the title formatting i.e. $meta_sep(album artist,';')

I haven't found any issues using it thus far, please try it out and report if you can find any. If not, ill add it to the repo shortly.

[JadeTank]

Found an issue w/ the cover being incorrect due to a wrong cachekey being set for split items, corrected.

[shadeMe]

I haven't had a chance yet to test this out (will hopefully have some time over the weekend), but thanks very much for implementing this so quickly! I was prepared to take a crack it myself but seeing how it's been years since I looked at/worked with the code, you were definitely the best person for the job 😄

[JadeTank]

Anyone had a chance to try this out yet?

[shadeMe]

I've been meaning to but need to first update my tags to support multiple genres. I can do a quick test tonight with some manually edited albums.

[JadeTank]

Anyone been able to test it out yet? Ive been using it without any issues, will just push it if I don't hear any problems.

[shadeMe]

Sorry about the radio silence - I did a quick test on my end, and it seems to work for multiple genres. Haven't tested multi-artist support though.