>the current version of EAC allows you to set both AA tags and composer >tags PRE-rip. (as well as use them for folder/filename construction) > >EDIT: it also allows for use of multiple online DB sources, that do AA, >etc... > IIRC, by default it doesn't, but you can configure command line parameters to pass into an external encoder.
>> I only use composer tags for classical music - not pop music. It >> doesn't seem right to me to put a mix of "The Beatles", >> "Lennon/McCartney", "John Lennon", Paul McCartney" Lennon & McCartney", >> etc in composer fields. Metadata sources, as used by Amazon and iTunes, >> and all other apps is poor/inconsistent. > >well, thats fine for you, but others, like me, use composer tags, and >lots of apps fill them in by default, just like AA tags, such as wmp >and winamp. people can always edit their tags if they don't like what >DB sources fill in. > Yeah, that's what I mean - there's no consistency in the metadata, so they are of limited use for navigating a large library. "Composer" for pop music just doesn't fit right - you may have a member of a band that writes the lyrics, but as a band they produce the music. Who would you set as the composer for the latest Coldplay album - Coldplay, Chris Martin, or Brian Eno? Perhaps all of them? NB. if the artist tag content and the composer tag content don't match exactly, then it will continue to work as per 7.5.6 ;-) _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
