i'm not surprised people perceive issues with how SC handles these things, not surprised at all.
there are basically two camps, one camp bases how they do any and everything based solely on how SC will deal with it. so, essentially SC decides for them how they will tag their stuff. the other camp basically wants to be able to do their own tagging their own way, and/or allow auto-taggers to do it, and have similar user experiences across multiple apps, including (obviously) SC. trying to find common ground between these two camps should not be a mutually exclusively proposition, however, current bugs, of which there are many, make it difficult to even address the issue. full rescans should NOT be required to pick up tag changes. using the string "Various Artists" in the album artist field should not cause your music to disappear. these and other bugs make finding common ground dfficult to say the least. SC imo needs to rethink from scratch how it is going to catalogue and store ones collection in a DB. the logics are faulty, presumptuous, non-intuitive and cause problems, and don't respect the de facto marketplace standards that are in place and bigger than SC, right or wrong. issue: album artist tags should not have any impact on if something is a comp or not. issue: comps should not be FORCED to be "auto" detected. issue: no string in a tag, especially one as common as "Various Artists" should cause the music to NOT be listed. issue: regardless of how you feel about the above, its ridiculous to stick any and everything that SC determines is a comp into ONE HUGE COMP category. issue: why do we need "track artists"? each track can have an album artist role, and an artist role, why do we also need a "track artist" role which is not a 1 to 1 match with an equivalent corresponding tag? i hope the new schema will bring new ways to approach how the DB / scanner / interface work, b/c i think there are ways to do everything that would make BOTH camps happy. -- MrSinatra www.lion-radio.org using: sb2 & sbc (my home) / sbr (parent's home) - w/sc 7.3.3b - win xp pro sp3 ie8 - 3.2ghz / 2gig ram - 1tb wd usb2 raid1 - d-link dir-655 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MrSinatra's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2336 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=57922 _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
