>FreeDB seems to be the extent of your experience. > You don't know my experience, and guess wrong. I've used AMG & Gracenote before. I have also used discogs.com and other sources.
Like I said at the start of my thread, where composer data has been entered, it's very inconsistent. e.g for Beatles releases, composer could be John Lennon or Lennon, or The Beatles, or J. Lennon, etc. If all of those different tags were left untouched, and Composers were included in the artist list, it would make a right mess. So, even if I did use a different app, and it used a metadata source that provides composer info, and the app supports it, I would strip it out. >> In a similar way, metadata sources don't put the year that a song was >> originally released, only the date that the album was released. This >> can be quite significant on compilation albums. eg. a song originally >> released in 1960 that appears on a 2010 album will be seen as a song >> belonging in 2010. > >i agree but i don't know why you're stating this? > Don't you feel it is related? That some people use YEAR for song year, whilst others use YEAR for album year, sometimes it's used to represent original release year, other times not. Whilst metadata sources can provide some data for any tag they feel like offering, there's no consistency, so don't rely on them. >> >strictly speaking, composer is not a classical term, but more >> >importantly, its a de facto standard. >> I never said composer was a classical term, only that I only use it for >> classical music. > >ok, and so you would agree then that your method, while fine and valid, >is not common, yes? 1. I did not say it was common, nor correct, etc. I was merely offering an example of what I do, in case someone found it useful. 2. I do actually think it is common - I believe that MANY peope do not use composer tags for popular music. I don't really care, but if this is important for you to know what percentage of MANY users do, how about starting a vote? >its important for you to realize, imo, that MANY >people will be in the boat that InTheBath described. > Erm, no it's not important for me to realise your opinion. But thanks for your contribution anyway. _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
