What I’m trying to do
For my CD/MP3 collection, I want to list the title of each track for a given album (as well as a few other things). The YAML that I built for this has several levels of nesting. (e.g., An album can have one or more discs. Each disc can have one or more tracks. Each track has a title. )
I can get this list of titles, but it is very messy.
The YAML looks like this:
artist: Beatles
album: 99 Past Masters-Disc 2-2009 Stereo Remaster
year: 2009
genre: Rock
discs:
- disc:
- discId: 1
- tracks:
- track:
- track: 1
- title: Day Tripper
- comment: Track 1
- beginning: 0
- length: 1.69195e+11
- bitrate: 201
- samplerate: 44100
- bitdepth: -1
- url: file:///home/scott/Music/Beatles - 99 Past Masters-Disc 2-2009 Stereo Remaster/Beatles - 99 Past Masters-Disc 2-2009 Stereo Remaster - 01 - Day Tripper.mp3
- filesize: 4.272128e+06
- track:
- track: 2
- title: We Can Work It Out
- comment: Track 2
- beginning: 0
- length: 1.35497e+11
- bitrate: 198
- samplerate: 44100
- bitdepth: -1
- url: file:///home/scott/Music/Beatles - 99 Past Masters-Disc 2-2009 Stereo Remaster/Beatles - 99 Past Masters-Disc 2-2009 Stereo Remaster - 02 - We Can Work It Out.mp3
- filesize: 3.377152e+06
- track:
…and so on…
Note: This YAML may be overly complicated, but (1) it is recognized by Obsidian as valid, and (2) it is a learning exercise for me.
Things I have tried
This:
= this.discs.disc.tracks.track.title`
Produces this:
-, -, Day Tripper, -, -, -, -, -, -, -, -, -, We Can Work It Out, -, -, -, -, -, -, -, -, -, Paperback Writer, -, -, -, -, -, -, -, -, -, Rain, -, -, -, -, -, -, -, -, -, Lady Madonna, -, -, -, -, -, -, -, -, -, The Inner Light, -, -, -, -, -, -, -, -, -, Hey Jude, -, -, -, -, -, -, -, -, -, Revolution, -, -, -, -, -, -, -, -, -, Get Back (With Billy Preston), -, -, -, -, -, -, -, -, -, Dont Let Me Down (With Billy Preston), -, -, -, -, -, -, -, -, -, The Ballad Of John And Yoko, -, -, -, -, -, -, -, -, -, Old Brown Shoe, -, -, -, -, -, -, -, -, -, Across The Universe, -, -, -, -, -, -, -, -, -, Let It Be, -, -, -, -, -, -, -, -, -, You Know My Name (Look Up The Number), -, -, -, -, -, -, -, -
This:
table without id
t
flatten (discs.disc.tracks.track.title) as t
where file = this.file
produces this:
Day Tripper
We Can Work It Out
…and so on…
I have googled dataviews and nested lists. I read the documentation on dataviews on the Obsidian’s and the author’s websites. I searched the topics on this form, but I am missing something. Please point me in the right direction.
Thanks.