Use dj in folder name instead of Various Artists

[karserasl]

Im using a watch directory in qbittorrent, so it will be beneficial to choose where the transcoded .torrent file gets saved (maybe after --upload ?)

Also, why now we have 2x .torrent files just with .{INDEXER}. between?

And lastly, the directory names shouldnt change from the source, no matter what is the correct one.
For ex.

/Jan Liefhebber - 2006 - Techno Special Reckless Mix {UDC - UDCFCD05} [CD FLAC]/

should stay the same, just the codec should change
instead it produced:

/Various Artists - Techno Special Reckless Mix [2006] [CD 320]/

[RogueOneEcho]

Im using a watch directory in qbittorrent, so it will be beneficial to choose where the transcoded .torrent file gets saved (maybe after --upload ?)

You can use the --copy-torrent-to option for the upload or batch commands to copy the .torrent files to an autoadd directory. See full docs: https://github.com/RogueOneEcho/caesura/blob/main/COMMANDS.md#caesura-upload

Also, why now we have 2x .torrent files just with .{INDEXER}. between?

This is necessary to support uploading to multiple indexers (RED and OPS)

• *.red.torrent has the source set to red.
• *.ops.torrent has the source set to ops.
• *.torrent without the indexer suffix is non-specific and is used by the transcode command to determine if a transcode already exists. In theory it could just search for .*.torrent but this would be a slow search process if you have a lot of files in the output directory.

And lastly, the directory names shouldnt change from the source, no matter what is the correct one. For ex.

/Jan Liefhebber - 2006 - Techno Special Reckless Mix {UDC - UDCFCD05} [CD FLAC]/

should stay the same, just the codec should change instead it produced:

/Various Artists - Techno Special Reckless Mix [2006] [CD 320]/

What is your reasoning for this? It would be incredibly difficult to reliably preserve the original folder name because there is no consistent naming convention.

If you're transcoding to MP3 for example you'd have to remove any reference to 24 Bit, 16 Bit, Flac, Lossless etc from the folder name.

In your example (RED 5155020) I agree that "Various Artists" isn't ideal. One possible solution would be to add some logic that if the torrent has multiple artists but only one dj then use that as the folder name. Is this a better solution?

/Jan Liefhebber - Techno Special Reckless Mix [2006] [CD 320]/

[RogueOneEcho]

If only two artists then include both: RED 4882068, RED 5071539 RED 5147539

[RogueOneEcho]

This should probably be considered a breaking change. If a source has already been transcoded to the Various Artists ... folder then it won't be found when searching for the new name. Not a big issue but potentially frustrating.

[RogueOneEcho]

Implemented in 63f0a6b

[karserasl]

Thanks alot for the response..

Solved the first 2 questions i had.

For the naming, true there isnt any convention for naming folders in music. Your suggestions for DJ mixes is nice..

Thanks again.