intelligent noise filter, metadata trim and blacklist

[djryan]

Podcast Addict adds the date of download to the artist field to display on Android Auto

This means the artist always contains a date.

I can work around by always editing before submitting, but having some way to make sure the back half isn't caught would be great.

[a-r-db]

What version of SLS?
v1.4.7 ?

[djryan]

Latest 1.4.8 beta from here.

The old version from the play store didn’t pay attention to the extra data.

[a-r-db]

hmm... this is a tough one.
I can't really be sure what to do about this one.
I would need to apply really specific code.
Such as for podcast addicts only and for this particular use case.
Regex or removing everything after the dot would work.
I can't really apply such a thing unless it's a universal certainty.

[a-r-db]

This falls under the category of intelligent noise filters.
I can't yet decide how I will implement this.
I'll keep it on my todo list however.

[djryan]

Would an interim, but slightly more general solution, be to have rules allowing regex? I’d be happy to put something like (*.) ⚫️*. converts to /1

[a-r-db]

Sounds good.
I will try to implement something or see if it's already been done before, as soon as I can.

[a-r-db]

@djryan what do you think of just isolating parts?
For example you could remove the 'dot' and the date separately and just trim the white space off the ends?
I could add a simple check box page for special characters and another for their contents maybe.
Examples would be:
special characters and square brackets and optionally their contents,
various date formats,

I could add a developer option to enable regex expressions.
There's already a database export developer option.

[djryan]

Oh that’s cute! I’d have been happy taking all the pain on myself (bringing back fond memories of my Perl development past) but I suspect I’d be in the minority!

[casperdcl]

Just supporting regex (#560) would be good enough - it's probably too much to hardcode intelligent filtering

[sjgd]

Hi,

Has anyone figured out how to remove the date from the artist's name when scrobbling from Podcast Addict?

Thanks!

[djryan]

Apart from editing in SLS, no. I did request that the author of Podcast Addict made the feature configurable, but they were adamant it was never going to change.

[casperdcl]

@sjeangirard that would be easy if you wrote your own regex if #560 gets fixed.

[sjgd]

Yes agreed.
For those interested, in the meantime, I rolled back to version 1.5.7 where the date issue is not present.