Japanese Artists

[chadbaum]

I've had this problem throughout the history of HP. Japanese artists with romanji (the version of their names written using the alphabet) names fail on post-processing because it tries to use the Japanese characters in the name instead of the romanji. Is there a way to have it use the "Sort Name" and "Alias" fields in Musicbrainz for these foreign artists?

Example is Nobuo Uematsu, perhaps the most prolific video-game soundtrack composer:

Could not create folder for Final Fantasy III: Original Soundtrack. Not moving: [Error 123] The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect: 'Z:\Media\Music\Organized\By Artist????'

[rembo10]

Shouldn't be too hard
On Jun 14, 2013 9:34 PM, "Valaire" [email protected] wrote:

I've had this problem throughout the history of HP. Japanese artists with
romanji (the version of their names written using the alphabet) names fail
on post-processing because it tries to use the Japanese characters in the
name instead of the romanji. Is there a way to have it use the "Sort Name"
and "Alias" fields in Musicbrainz for these foreign artists?

Example is Nobuo Uematsu, perhaps the most prolific video-game soundtrack
composer:

Could not create folder for Final Fantasy III: Original Soundtrack. Not
moving: [Error 123] The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is
incorrect: 'Z:\Media\Music\Organized\By Artist????'

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Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com//issues/1127
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[chadbaum]

Yeah, if you can have it use the alias version of the name, both within the managing pages of Headphones itself, and for purposes of post-processing, that would be fantastic. Thanks.

[chadbaum]

Hi, I just wanted to check if the above fix is still being considered? Thanks.

[piejanssens]

Possible duplicate #1222.

[vmdude]

Support for both kanji and romanji for the same track would be awesome, as today most of filename are using romanji but musicbrainz results are mainly kanji, HP doesn't match both...

[chadbaum]

It would seem that progress was made on this issue such that it can create a file using kanji and post-process more often. Or maybe it's because I switched to Linux. Either way, it is not usable yet unless we can make it not create folders in Kanji but in the Romanji equivalent instead -- either by pulling the appropriate field in MB or giving us an option in an artist to override the artist name for the purposes of how HP names its files and folders and for the purposes of HP tracking what I already have. In the above example with Nobuo Uematsu, he currently gets added as "植松伸夫" instead, and folders are created with that name. If I then make a script to copy over stuff in that folder to the Uematsu one, I guess I could set all downloaded albums to ignore, and keep at it, but was hoping there was a more direct way to resolve this as I have many artists with this issue. Anyone who likes video game music, to some degree, is going to be effected by this, so I don't think it's an obscure taste or anything. Thanks again! Headphones has been a lot better lately with processing overall.

[rembo10]

Merging this in with #293