sound-juicer should allow custom filenames patterns

[Mathieu Leplatre]

Binary package hint: sound-juicer

version: 2.24.0

The existing filenames patterns in sound-juicer are not enough.

For example, it does not allow to define the following pattern :
"artist - album [year]/artist - album - track - title"

I heard there is a way to define more pattern in gconf, but the filename_pattern value are overwritten if the preferences window is opened.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

same issue on 2.28.0 ?

[Mathieu Leplatre (mathieu.leplatre)]

Pedro,

I can manually gconf to specify my pattern. The preferences window will not alter it. It seems to be fixed. However I would like it to appear in the combobox as the current pattern. I have no way to visualize my pattern, and cannot reuse it if I touch the combobox.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for sound-juicer (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

[Mike Power (mpower)]

So if it expires, does that mean it is not going to be fixed?

[najevi (najevi)]

I agree
1. that this feature would be a welcome addition to Sound Juicer and
2. that it is frustrating that this bug simply expired ...

... however, it is probably not a high priority feature to incorporate because a command line workaround is rather simple:

$ ls
Disc 1 - 10 - Centerfold.mp3 Disc 2 - 20 - Up Rock.mp3
Disc 1 - 9 - Walking on Sunshine.mp3 Disc 3 - 1 - Never Ending Story.mp3
Disc 2 - 1 - Scatman.mp3
$ rename 's/^Disc (\d+) - (\d+) - /sprintf("%1d%02d-",$1,$2)/e' Disc*
$ ls
109-Walking on Sunshine.mp3 201-Scatman.mp3 301-Never Ending Story.mp3
110-Centerfold.mp3 220-Up Rock.mp3
$

For more options read:
$ man rename
$ perldoc perlop

This workaround added to launchpad so that others don't need to reinvent it.

enjoy!

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

Such bugs should be filed upstream, preferably with working code.