>So much for theory you might want to actually try it >Im still working at SCs Schema logic (trying to understand contributors and >roles). > All artists contribute to music in some way (various roles). Some are the primary performers on songs (artist role for normal albums), some are bands/orchestras, conductors, composers, etc. Some albums are collections of songs by various people, so the music can have an album artist role, and track artist roles.
As there can be more than one contributor on a song, all contributors are held in a link table. Additional contributors could be added, but the tags aren't supported by SC's scanner. eg. involved people (typically reports who the individual singer, drummer, etc are), original artist, mix artist, producer, etc. >And I cant really find any other difference in the tags, maybe >youd like to check the -metamp3- output in the text file. > I'll have a quick look later. >I guess it must have have something to do with TDATE, or how else can >we explain that the sole change of introducing a dummy TDATE frame >containg »1605« makes 40 »albums« vanish and the 2 real albums appear >(on the »30 Jaar Disco« example)? > I guess you are talking mp3 files, id3 tags then. Have you tried other file types? Maybe. I normally only use YEAR tags. I have compilation albums containing songs with different years, and never had a problem. I believe there was a problem with varying GENRE tag content for songs on an album (over 2 years ago), but that's history. Having said that, when I first started tagging, I entered specific release dates instead of just years, and I don't recall seeing strange behaviour. Things change over time though, as a few users wish for weird fringe cases like that. >And of course Im quite stubborn Ill keep insisting that all songs >by one artist should be stored under my artist folders Just because I >want it this way ;-) > Sure, it just doesn't work for most other people if it were that way. >Playlists should be enough to keep compilations together. (Besides, it works >beautifully with all other software I >use.) There should be no logic to make albums up from the content of playlists. Playlists are not albums (except cue sheets, which do define albums). Sure, you can make a playlist containing all the songs you want on a compilation, and then you can find the playlist via Browse Playlists and play it. But you can't tag song1 with ALBUM=X, song2 with ALBUM=Y, put them in a playlist called Z and expect both songs to be on an album called Z. Phil _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/beta
