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General => MusicBee Wishlist => Topic started by: Bee-liever on November 24, 2022, 10:20:42 AM

Title: No new line with track sub-grouping
Post by: Bee-liever on November 24, 2022, 10:20:42 AM

Currently if a tag / virtual tag used as sub-grouping header has a null value, MB will create a blank line.
(http://i.imgur.com/WAtHANS.jpg) (https://imgur.com/WAtHANS)

Could it please be changed so a null tag value is ignored and no empty line is created.

Title: Re: No new line with track sub-grouping
Post by: Messiaen on November 26, 2022, 10:06:16 PM

Umm... I think somewhere between subversions 3.5.8359 and .8365 this request seems to have been implemented - which inadvertently screws up a lot of Work/Movement tags I had set up which conveniently not only preceded the "work" set with a blank line (as the option states in Layout 1 -> Files -> Track Sub-Grouping), but it also followed the work/movement set with a blank line (thus separating out any following tracks which are not labelled as movements of the work.

In other words, if tracks 3-7 constitute a "work/movement set", but track 8 is explicitly not a movement to that work, nor the start of a new work, track 8 now follows on directly from track 7 where (in version .8359, at least) track 8 would be logically separated from the preceding work.

I don't think this was the intended result of the original request, despite the fact that it certainly sounds like it might be.  ??? (I'm explicitly using the Classical-music tags of "Work" and "Movement".)

How could I get back the previous behaviour without resorting to making track 8 the start of a new disk (to force a line separator, which seems like hitting a small nail with a sledgehammer)?  I have many "works" in middle of albums which rely on this aesthetic.

(If this is not related to this request/post I apologise for posting here, but it seems directly related.)

Title: Re: No new line with track sub-grouping
Post by: Steven on November 26, 2022, 10:22:09 PM

it wasnt intentional - i was just trying it out to see whats involved and forgot to remove it
the change has been undone now

Title: Re: No new line with track sub-grouping
Post by: Messiaen on November 26, 2022, 10:59:04 PM

Thank you Steven  :)

Title: Re: No new line with track sub-grouping
Post by: Bee-liever on November 27, 2022, 02:25:14 AM

But I don't have the 'precede with a blank line' option turned on
(https://i.imgur.com/xgSEo4t.jpg)
 :(  :'(

Title: Re: No new line with track sub-grouping
Post by: The Incredible Boom Boom on March 21, 2023, 01:09:16 PM

@Bee-liever, basic question for an advanced user like yourself, but are you sure each track per disc has the same <Header [variable]> tag?