>i see you and others tell people all the time to delete their AA tags >on comps. that advice is no good if they use WMP or winamp. > No, I don't say to delete AA tags on comps. That's fine (but what I do say is they are not compilations in that case, unless compilation tag is also added).
What I do say is that it's not important to add AA tags unnecessarily on everything (i.e. normal albums). iTunes, etc, works the same as SBS in this regard - the apps present an Album Artist which is the normal artist on the tracks. >if however they keep their AA tags, their music is NOT detected as >comps by SBS, even though they are comps! and if the string is >"Various Artists" the tracks are NOT displayed via home>artists as per >bug 9523 > Then add the compilation tag, which doesn't break any other app. >> If people put compilation tags in their collection, then that tag will >> be used and albums treated as such in the UI. > >and here you do exactly what i said you would, you'd suggest some >workaround that for WMP or winamp users requires a 3rd app. BAD >DESIGN. > No I don't - albums can still have an album artist tag, so WMP and WinAmp should be fine. And if other apps don't work well, that's a problem to be fixed in those apps. Making a well behaved app work poorly because other apps are poorly doesn't sound like progress. >the point is that a WMP/winamp/etc user should be able to ID a comp to >SBS without having to change their tags beyond what the app that >created them did. feel free to disagree as i'm sure you will, but imo >if SBS is going to go to such extraordinary lengths to accommodate >itunes crap, (supports TCMP, integration, etc) they could tack on a >string recognition for these guys. > I don't see that there is something to accommodate. WMP/Winamp don't support compilation indications in any way. They don't have hard-coded strings to detect compilations. There are no compilation albums to these apps, just albums that have an album artist name that can be whatever the user wants (same as SBS/iTunes, but no additional marker to support a list of all compilation albums). >(and user defined string recognition is not that different from the >current "guess tag formats" option, which serves wav users well) > That's totally different. Guess Tags works on generic pattern matching, not hard-coded strings. eg. artist=folder name, album=sub-folder name, track/title=file name. It's nothing like a hard-coded list of values to compare against tag values to set some other tag value. >to a degree, yes... but as i've told you before, SBS calls ANYTHING >with a mismatch (and lacking AA tags) a comp, and this is not always >desireable, meaning that you have to AA tag it since you can't just >turn off the VA auto detection, which i know YOU wouldn't like, but >others might. > Some very small number of people may think that might be a good idea instead of fixing tags, but that's because they haven't thought all the way through the implications of disabling the logic, or havn't had the experience of what SBS was like before the decision was made to add that logic into the scanner. If tags are entered correctly, all apps are happy. If tags are not entered correctly, apps are unhappy, but SBS is happier than most. _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
