• Registered: 2011-06-29

Topic: Artist for German audio books

I would very much prefer to have (German) Hörbücher listed with the series name rather than the author or other things. Right now, it is not consistent. For example,

1) Audio books listed under the series name (the way I would love it to be)
Die drei ??? - http://musicbrainz.org/artist/e028fab5- … 344d88b171

2) Audio books listed under the author (would love that these can be changed)
Stefan Wolf (TKKG) - http://musicbrainz.org/artist/d3d9bc09- … 897f60f4c3
Enid Blyton (Hanni und Nanni) - http://musicbrainz.org/artist/8060e859- … 7aacc0d448
Enid Blyton (Fünf Freunde) - http://musicbrainz.org/artist/8060e859- … 7aacc0d448


Any thoughts? Any chance to see this changed?

  • Registered: 2011-06-06

Re: Artist for German audio books

Got to be honest, I don't see the benefit of changing everything to be listed as a series.
That information is in the title, and all the entries listed under 2) seem to be tidy enough, and not really throw up any issues. In this case it's 'Die Drei ???' that's the exception- because with various authors, it's easier to keep them together that way.

What problems do you see with that format?

  • Registered: 2010-02-20

Re: Artist for German audio books

I also want to have my tags like that, so I've written myself a plugin, which you can use and customize for your needs!

Using the title of the series as artist is probably not a very good idea, since it opens the door for other cases (soundtracks, VA-compilation series, etc.). It would be better if we had better support for "series" (like a new label-like entity to group such releases together).

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

PLUGIN_NAME = u'Custom Title'
PLUGIN_AUTHOR = u'hrglgrmpf'
PLUGIN_DESCRIPTION = u'Custom title for audiplays, etc.'
PLUGIN_VERSION = '1.0'
PLUGIN_API_VERSIONS = ["0.16"]

from picard.metadata import register_album_metadata_processor, register_track_metadata_processor
import re

def custom_album_title(album, metadata, release):
    # Die drei ???
    if metadata['musicbrainz_albumartistid'] == 'e028fab5-39ae-4ed9-b8c2-c4344d88b171':
        title = metadata['album']
        title = re.sub(ur'^Die drei \?\?\?\s*', ur'', title)
        title = re.sub(ur'^Volume ([0-9]+):\s*', ur'\1 / ', title)
        metadata['album'] = title
    # Die Dr3i
    elif metadata['musicbrainz_albumartistid'] == '5b8eb65b-04ca-4656-93ef-80378ad89804':
        title = metadata['album']
        title = re.sub(ur'^Die Dr3i ([0-9]+):\s*', ur'\1 / ', title)
        title = re.sub(ur'^Die Dr3i:\s*', ur'', title)
        metadata['album'] = title
    # Die drei !!!
    elif metadata['musicbrainz_albumartistid'] == '2167935f-196b-42ce-9708-52d5731f2650':
        title = metadata['album']
        title = re.sub(ur'^Die drei !!! Fall ([0-9]+):\s*', ur'\1 / ', title)
        metadata['album'] = title
    # TKKG
    elif metadata['musicbrainz_albumartistid'] == 'd3d9bc09-f1c1-49bc-94e0-e7897f60f4c3':
        for x in ['albumartist', 'albumartistsort']:
            metadata[x] = u'TKKG'
        title = metadata['album']
        title = re.sub(ur'^TKKG:\s*[0-9]+\s*', ur'', title)
        title = re.sub(ur'^TKKG:?\s*', ur'', title)
        title = re.sub(ur'^([0-9]+):\s*', ur'\1 / ', title)
        metadata['album'] = title
    # Pumuckl
    elif metadata['musicbrainz_albumartistid'] == '448585f0-c834-4780-8ab6-a4432dae45cf':
        for x in ['albumartist', 'albumartistsort']:
            metadata[x] = u'Meister Eder und sein Pumuckl'
        title = metadata['album']
        title = re.sub(ur'^Meister Eder und sein Pumuckl, Folge ([0-9]+) Weihnachten:\s*', ur'Weihnachten \1 / ', title)
        title = re.sub(ur'^Meister Eder und sein Pumuckl, Folge ([0-9]+):\s*', ur'\1 / ', title)
        metadata['album'] = title

def custom_track_title(album, metadata, release, track):
    # TKKG
    if metadata['musicbrainz_artistid'] == 'd3d9bc09-f1c1-49bc-94e0-e7897f60f4c3':
        for x in ['artist', 'artistsort']:
            metadata[x] = u'TKKG'
    # Pumuckl
    elif metadata['musicbrainz_artistid'] == '448585f0-c834-4780-8ab6-a4432dae45cf':
        for x in ['artist', 'artistsort']:
            metadata[x] = u'Meister Eder und sein Pumuckl'

register_album_metadata_processor(custom_album_title)
register_track_metadata_processor(custom_track_title)
  • Registered: 2012-04-29

Re: Artist for German audio books

Hello,

I agree with steve1977. There seems to be some mess with this.
There are also as Fictitious Artist:
Benjamin Blümchen http://musicbrainz.org/artist/6f4b441a- … 3ae4ba3b00
Bibi Blocksberg http://musicbrainz.org/artist/2c89e930- … 15bb8fb5ba
Point Whitmark http://musicbrainz.org/artist/4d0cec65- … 4499d3ec61

For Fünf Freunde Enid Blyton is also some kind of wrong. She only write the 21 Books, but there are 95 Audio series.

Also is there some mess with the numbering name:
Die drei ???: Volume n
Fünf Freunde: Episode n
Bibi Blocksberg: Folge n

Volume seems the be correct according to style guide.

Also is Die drei ??? categorized as Spokenword and Fünf Freunde as Audiobook. I think Spokenword does match better. Audiobook is in my understanding more for a Reading of a Book with only one narrator.

  • Registered: 2010-02-20

Re: Artist for German audio books

Hi!

Someone561 wrote:

For Fünf Freunde Enid Blyton is also some kind of wrong. She only write the 21 Books, but there are 95 Audio series.

Well, this doesn't matter if the audio series is still attributed/credited to Enid Blyton.

Someone561 wrote:

Also is there some mess with the numbering name:
Die drei ???: Volume n
Fünf Freunde: Episode n
Bibi Blocksberg: Folge n

Volume seems the be correct according to style guide.

I agree, this is quite a mess. The style guide doesn't at all say that "Folge" has to be translated to "Volume", so I think "Die drei ???" should probably be re-titled.

Someone561 wrote:

Also is Die drei ??? categorized as Spokenword and Fünf Freunde as Audiobook. I think Spokenword does match better. Audiobook is in my understanding more for a Reading of a Book with only one narrator.

You are right, but I think the next schema change will separate those attributes, so it might be worth waiting?
http://tickets.musicbrainz.org/browse/MBS-3646

  • Registered: 2012-04-29

Re: Artist for German audio books

hrglgrmpf wrote:

Hi!

Someone561 wrote:

For Fünf Freunde Enid Blyton is also some kind of wrong. She only write the 21 Books, but there are 95 Audio series.

Well, this doesn't matter if the audio series is still attributed/credited to Enid Blyton.

Okey, I see. I personally would my search them under "Fünf Freunde" not "Enid Blyton", but I can live with that.

hrglgrmpf wrote:
Someone561 wrote:

Also is there some mess with the numbering name:
Die drei ???: Volume n
Fünf Freunde: Episode n
Bibi Blocksberg: Folge n

Volume seems the be correct according to style guide.

I agree, this is quite a mess. The style guide doesn't at all say that "Folge" has to be translated to "Volume", so I think "Die drei ???" should probably be re-titled.

I do not prefer any of them. I like it only to be equal.

hrglgrmpf wrote:
Someone561 wrote:

Also is Die drei ??? categorized as Spokenword and Fünf Freunde as Audiobook. I think Spokenword does match better. Audiobook is in my understanding more for a Reading of a Book with only one narrator.

You are right, but I think the next schema change will separate those attributes, so it might be worth waiting?
http://tickets.musicbrainz.org/browse/MBS-3646

Waiting to the 05-15 seems to be good.