Mnyb;578375 Wrote: 
> What beats me as an dB n00b is the fact that the dB created is not "good
> enough" to be used by all optional ways to "see" the collection ?
> Why not create a complete dB that has all info needed ?

That's a good question that's been asked before.  First, you have to
figure out how to do it, if it can be done at all.

Looking at it more closely, I see three options that require a full
wipe and rescan when changed:

1. Group multi-disc sets

2. Articles To Ignore When Sorting

3. Treat TPE2 MP3 tag as Album Artist


As I said above, I think #1 could be accomplished without requiring
rescanning.

The other two settings concern how tagging data is interpreted.

There are probably some ways around #2.  You would have to keep the raw
genre data for each track.  It wouldn't take the elaborate two-phase
system above, just an added column to the tracks table.  Use the data
to 're-genre-ize' all of the tracks if the delimiter is changed.  It
would be faster than running a full rescan, but you have to wonder if
the effort is worth it, as people aren't likely to change this very
often.

Number 3 might also be possible.  Instead of interpreting the TPE2 tag
to mean the role 'AlbumArtist', you could always store it in the
database as the role 'Band' and then construct queries to either pull
just 'AlbumArtist' or else pull both roles, as dictated by the setting.
I think the current approach is just the easier path - if it's done at
scan time then the query code stays relatively simple.


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