in this post, I just want to focus on the "track artist" issue, b/c I think it will be hard to get any other necessary changes without first having common agreement on this.
in the real world, there is no such thing. only server creates this category or idea. any given file will have an artist tag, or not. any given file will have an album artist tag, or not. *BUT NO given file will ever have a "track artist" tag.* certainly not separate and distinct and in addition to from the universally accepted "artist" tag. I could only conceive of it as a misnamed replacement for the "artist" field, but I have never seen one. does anyone disagree? has anyone ever seen one in the wild? in the DB for any music application, it should reference the input it is given, and not make up stuff. the reasons server did make up this stuff are probably long forgotten, but it seems to have something to do with the idea that there should only be one list for artists, and then deciding about what qualifies to be in this one list or not. that in and of itself is a terrible approach. I think we all agree that having one list for all "album artists" and a second list for all "artists" is the right way to go. do we all agree on that? that is what several people, myself included, are asking for in this thread. can we not simply just do this, get that working, and then afterwards see how we can eliminate "track artist" from the DB, while at the same time handle compilations in a different and more intelligent manner? Using: Win7 64 and LMS 7.8 & Duet with ipads and the logitech app, and ipeng on an ipod ------------------------------------------------------------------------ BJW's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=58242 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=101264 _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
