Multiple field search, OR is AND (Newbie quation)
 

In the archives I read that to get full albums, I need to put the words "album albw complete entire cd" in the search field for the title.

However, it seems that when I search on multiple fields LW treats this as an OR iso an AND search. Is that correct? and if so is there any way to change this?

Example:
I searched for Title: album and Artist: Jimi Hendrix

The result was a lot of Jimi Hendix singles and one album, by The Police :(

All I want is a list of albums by Jimi Hendrix. Am I asking to much?

Sorry, "OR is AND" shuld read "OR iso AND"

album vs singles
 

i think you'll find that a lot of people share only singles.
if i want an album i research the album first to find all the songs on it. then i search the artist, album, songs to get what i want. i don't really want a program to un-wrap the albumwrap so i DL the singles.
i have mainly albums, but still you have to get them one song at a time.
if you find one song, browse the host they may have the rest. you may not find the album today or tommorrow. check for your album at different times in the day. :)

I have found many albums that were only avaiable as albumwraps.afaik.. until I unwrapped them and put up both the wrap and the single tracks... Certainly it's easier to d'l a wrapped album and unwrap it PROVIDED that the wrapping has been done correctly. The unwrapping progs are small and simple.

too laaaazzzy!
 

i guess i'm too old & too lazy to bother with another program to do something else just to listen to music on this computer.lol :D

I always think it's damn lazy to just click once and get a complete album :):) besides I like playing with all the little extractor progs... I guess I'm funny that way:)

But .. it's true to say that it can take a good hour to unwrap it and relabel it and identify the tracks if it has not been correctly wrapped

too much like work!
 

if LW runs out of (singles) on an album, or if i somehow find the time to learn a new trick, i'll get the un-wrap program.

i DL an albumwrap once, if you want to listen to something someone else put together, those are fine. i like to compile my own selections. it's time-consuming enough to have to edit the songs i do.

i'm anal about enough stuff, like color coding all the new slim movie covers. green-action, yellow-comedy, red-horror, etc. (p.s. i can't read w/out glasses, so it's quicker to find the colors first.) large print on the new covers as well. i have a movie notebook color-coded with the same color tabs. sad, but true!! lol :D

me d ... does not colour coding your entire collection of everything not include just a teensy little bit of work.

I need to ask you when you are arranging your collection , do you use the date method or the alphabetical first name or the ......................... ?:D:D ;) LOL

Thanks Only a Hobo and me d for your responses

1 - The reason I don't like puting an album together by downloading its singles is that you never know which version of the single you get, it might be a different version than the one on the album

2 - Thanks to your advise and playing around a bit, I did find a way now to find albums with a reasonable hit rate. I now put the artist name in the Artist field and the full album title in the Title field. So far so good.

3 - However, extracting ALBW files is a diffrent matter. I downloaded the Album Wrap Extractor from infamus.com, but having tried literally dozens of ALBW I keep getting the msg that "this is not a proper Album wrap" file. Now I understand that not every ALBW is the real thing, but getting no results what so ever I find a bit suspicious.

Anyone know whether this thingy is for real?

TIA
Gert

I had exactly the same suspicions about albumwrap with an awful lot of them, until I hit a genuine one. I was over the moon to actually find one :)

For Mac there is an application called File juicer which extracts almost anything from a file and this includes files that albumwrap extractor will not. I am sure there must be a Windows equivalent of File Juicer, but I'm not sure what.

btw I am really OAH but the forums have been a bit strange recently:):)

work?
 

..Hobo: in the long run i can see w/out assistance. if i do movie covers en-mass it actually saves me time. (nero & record now) i don't have to wade thru all the crap movies. i like action-green. and i like the G movies-red.
p.s. i don't have to arrange the collection (colors), just the movie list. lol

gertblij: LimeWire is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're going to get.
you're right about songs from the proper album. with rhapsody, usually when you play the song it will tell you which album it came from (id tag) before editing info. even after editing, it still comes up with the original album. most are good enough to include the proper album info if it's there at all. if they don't i look elsewhere.:)

gertblij !

I use Alba Extractor 0.4-dev or albaextractor-0.1, in this order. With these i had no problems.

Another Hobo:
File Juicer sounds really exciting, but for the life of me I can't find a Windows version. Must be a Mac developer with principles :-). Any further suggestions?

Hopalong:
Thanks for that. As a non-techie Alba Extractor 0.4-dev for Windows is too scary to install, but albaextractor-0.3 is getting me lovely results for my ALBW files

I'm not actuall sure if you read this thread ... but lotr suggests various extractors and , not being the PC type I haven't explored them fully:)

http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...threadid=34057

Yep, I saw those links, even tried some of them, but as a non-techie there is some pretty scary stuff there :).

Anyway, it looks like I am on my bicycle for the unwrapping and finding albums, so I am going to enjoy LM until the next road block :).

I found what I could with the albumwrap extractors. But there's also the Splitters such as Mp3Split & Mp3directcut which "might" do the job. Did you try those?

It's been at least 6 mths or much longer since I investigated those so there might be new ones or ones I didn't find in my searches. I originally wrote that post 12 mths ago.

BTW which ones did you find scary & why so? lol :D

>But there's also the Splitters such as Mp3Split & Mp3directcut which "might" do the job. Did you try those?

I did try Mp3Split, but when I dropped an album file on it I didn't have a clue what the responses meant

> BTW which ones did you find scary & why so?
Can't remember the exact products, but I tried 2 or 3 and I got installation instructions refering to a "make" routine (I am a simple WinXP end user). Others asked me questions, either at installation or when I dropped an album file on it, that I couldn;t understand.

Basically the way I work these days (because most software arrives like that) is that I hit an "install" file or button, it installs itself and works for the simple end user. The moment it reacts in ways I don't understand I move on.

But again, I am not looking any further. Alba Extractor solved my original problem. I'll take the next step when I run into the next road block.

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Lord of the Rings
[B]I found what I could with the albumwrap extractors. But there's also the Splitters such as Mp3Split & Mp3directcut which "might" do the job. Did you try those?

Hi Lord of the Rings, me again, I making (very) slow progress :(, but progress none the less :)
One thing I have learned though is that the general concensus is that mp3split seems to be the best tool of them all (in the Windows environment that is).

I downloaded the GUI version and also SnackAmp, but for the life of me I can't find any place where it explains how to use this thingy, only the command line version.

Do you have any idea where I can find instructions how to use mp3splt GUI version with SanckAmp?

TIA

I have a suspicion the program has changed its name from mp3split to mp3splt as there's another program of the same name. For the 1st (which is open source), I found this http://mp3splt.sourceforge.net/mp3sp...ation/man.html which seems to be all there is. :rolleyes:

For mp3split, there's a pdf link from this page http://digilander.libero.it/mega27/mp3split/
I believe the one you have is the 1st one.

* There are some cd burner programs such as Nero & Roxio which have similar programs packaged with their burner program. ie: they're also splitters, they detect silence between tracks. You can adjust the sensitivity. But a program that majors in doing it is probably going to be better rather than an extra utility included in a package.

On the mac I think Roxio Toast's Audio Extractor also has this ability. It's been so long since I used it.

At worst you could also use an audio editor to separate them, but that'd mean reconverting to mp3 in the end. http://audacity.sourceforge.net/windows.php can open mp3 & ogg & wav files & save into those formats, edit, apply effects, etc. And it's free open source program.