Music Folder and how they are displayed in Dolphin
Hi. I'll try to make this as as clear as possible. I was a longtime Windows user, I made the leap to full Linux, specifically Kubuntu 19.04, in early March 2019. I love the look of the KDE Plasma environment & how customizable it is. There have been some hiccups along the way, but for the most part, it's been pretty smooth & since I'm already used to hunting down answers I've been able to overcome most of the issues that I've had, save for one/two glaring exceptions. I say one or two because they are related & likely affect each other.
A Quick Partial System Rundown:
Kubuntu 19.04 is installed on a WD Blue 3D NAND 500GB SSD.
(2) 3.5" 7500 RPM HDDs (1TB & 2TB) used for storage; they came from the Windows system, so are formatted in ntfs.
My old Windows 7 OS resides on a separate 256GB SSD. I can't boot into Windows 7, because I am running a Gigabyte Z390 Aorus Pro motherboard, hardware that doesn't support Windows 7.
I have little desire to install Windows 10, though if push comes to shove, I have a 2.5" HDD sitting unused in a USB 3.0 enclosure that I'm willing to sacrifice if I must.
8th Gen Intel Core i-5 8500 CPU.
16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 3200 RAM.
Sea Sonic Focus+ Platinum 550 W PSU.
Please note that I have looked & searched through the forums & help pages for Kubuntu, Ubuntu, the Ubuntu Wiki, the Ubuntu & GNU/Linux Reddit pages & even the Linux help forums on Tom's Guide, Linus Tech Tips & others for an answer/solution to no avail. Some of the answers I cam across looked promising because they were sort of along the same lines as or similar to my question, however I've so far been unable to solve my problem.
My problem pertains to how Dolphin displays the contents of the My Music folder and its sub-folders, specifically with regards to the information shown in the columns & in which order those columns appear. All of the audio files have metadata written to the files with the fields corresponding/matching up with the columns selected to be displayed, but the information in those columns are empty.
I have tried using several of the Open Source tagging tools: EasyTag, Entagged, Quod Libre & Ex Falso, Kid3, the Tag Editor built into Clementine & all have meet with failure. I did select the option NOT to write the ID3v1 tag to the files after reading that might be a reason for it not displaying but that didn't work either. I tried to do the same using Mp3tag in WINE with the same results.
There is the My Music folder/directory. Within that main folder are 4,920 individual folders which are sorted by Name (where Name=Album Artist for ease of sorting/view & navigation) wherein each Album release gets its own dedicated folder. It's all organized & laid out exactly how I like it in a way that makes sense to me & also makes navigating quick & simple. All the files have had metadata tags written using the program mp3tag in Windows 7, which was set to write ID3v1 tags as well as APEv2 tags when ID3v2 tags (ID3v2.3 UTF-16 encoding) were written to the files. I have created & set several custom fields such as the Location of the band, Involved People, Production Credits, Artwork/Design credits & more. If there is an artist featured on a track, it's noted in the Filename & Title (which are for obvious reasons, the same). Track numbers, however are not part of the titles. Here's an example: the Artist is Windows Of Lucidity, the song Title is Hate(Less) (Feat. Calvin Gines Of Inversions)off of the Album Clear Barriers [EP].
All folders are shown in the Detailed View with the Columns listed in the following order: Name, Track, Title, Album Artist, Album, Genre, Length/Duration, Bit rate. Title is not included in Dolphin (I assume because it's redundant being that "Name" is the same thing).
Folders are sorted by Name until you get into Album Artist's individual Album folders, where files are then sorted Ascending by Track (i.e. 1-10).
*Note: The My Music folder was/is whatever on a HDD partitioned in/for Windows, so it is in the ntfs filesystem, though Dolphin shows it as "fuseblk" which I understand is how ntfs filesystems are displayed in Linux/Ubuntu.
Rather verbose, I apologize. To sum up: I need to have the file manager show the contents of the My Music folder/sub-folders with the corresponding information/metadata under the Columns as outlined above. I tried to attach some screenshots for reference but they aren't uploaded to the web, so I don't think it worked.
A Quick Partial System Rundown:
Kubuntu 19.04 is installed on a WD Blue 3D NAND 500GB SSD.
(2) 3.5" 7500 RPM HDDs (1TB & 2TB) used for storage; they came from the Windows system, so are formatted in ntfs.
My old Windows 7 OS resides on a separate 256GB SSD. I can't boot into Windows 7, because I am running a Gigabyte Z390 Aorus Pro motherboard, hardware that doesn't support Windows 7.
I have little desire to install Windows 10, though if push comes to shove, I have a 2.5" HDD sitting unused in a USB 3.0 enclosure that I'm willing to sacrifice if I must.
8th Gen Intel Core i-5 8500 CPU.
16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 3200 RAM.
Sea Sonic Focus+ Platinum 550 W PSU.
Please note that I have looked & searched through the forums & help pages for Kubuntu, Ubuntu, the Ubuntu Wiki, the Ubuntu & GNU/Linux Reddit pages & even the Linux help forums on Tom's Guide, Linus Tech Tips & others for an answer/solution to no avail. Some of the answers I cam across looked promising because they were sort of along the same lines as or similar to my question, however I've so far been unable to solve my problem.
My problem pertains to how Dolphin displays the contents of the My Music folder and its sub-folders, specifically with regards to the information shown in the columns & in which order those columns appear. All of the audio files have metadata written to the files with the fields corresponding/matching up with the columns selected to be displayed, but the information in those columns are empty.
I have tried using several of the Open Source tagging tools: EasyTag, Entagged, Quod Libre & Ex Falso, Kid3, the Tag Editor built into Clementine & all have meet with failure. I did select the option NOT to write the ID3v1 tag to the files after reading that might be a reason for it not displaying but that didn't work either. I tried to do the same using Mp3tag in WINE with the same results.
There is the My Music folder/directory. Within that main folder are 4,920 individual folders which are sorted by Name (where Name=Album Artist for ease of sorting/view & navigation) wherein each Album release gets its own dedicated folder. It's all organized & laid out exactly how I like it in a way that makes sense to me & also makes navigating quick & simple. All the files have had metadata tags written using the program mp3tag in Windows 7, which was set to write ID3v1 tags as well as APEv2 tags when ID3v2 tags (ID3v2.3 UTF-16 encoding) were written to the files. I have created & set several custom fields such as the Location of the band, Involved People, Production Credits, Artwork/Design credits & more. If there is an artist featured on a track, it's noted in the Filename & Title (which are for obvious reasons, the same). Track numbers, however are not part of the titles. Here's an example: the Artist is Windows Of Lucidity, the song Title is Hate(Less) (Feat. Calvin Gines Of Inversions)off of the Album Clear Barriers [EP].
All folders are shown in the Detailed View with the Columns listed in the following order: Name, Track, Title, Album Artist, Album, Genre, Length/Duration, Bit rate. Title is not included in Dolphin (I assume because it's redundant being that "Name" is the same thing).
Folders are sorted by Name until you get into Album Artist's individual Album folders, where files are then sorted Ascending by Track (i.e. 1-10).
*Note: The My Music folder was/is whatever on a HDD partitioned in/for Windows, so it is in the ntfs filesystem, though Dolphin shows it as "fuseblk" which I understand is how ntfs filesystems are displayed in Linux/Ubuntu.
Rather verbose, I apologize. To sum up: I need to have the file manager show the contents of the My Music folder/sub-folders with the corresponding information/metadata under the Columns as outlined above. I tried to attach some screenshots for reference but they aren't uploaded to the web, so I don't think it worked.
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