Somehow I don't see SlimServer as ever being intended as a "tag debugging" tool. Case insensitivity is hardly AI. We're not talking about spelling or grammar correction.
Totally. If making the server ignore case is really going to ruffle that many peoples' way of doing things then it should just be an option. I read all these emails and what I still don't understand is why someone would even WANT it the way it is now. Seriously, where does the case-sensitivity become an advantage?
Why would anyone want "PUNK" and "Punk" and "PUnk" to sort differently? Please tell me because I'm sincerely curious.
Because the Slimserver is not the only place I play this music. My iRiver and my wife's iPod will also display the tag content, and it's annoying to both of us when the content is wrong. Music I've had ripped for a long time is generally tagged correctly, but when I get new music and it's not tagged correctly, listening to it in Slimserver makes that obvious. Since I'm home instead of noticing it on my iRiver at 35,000 feet, I can fix it.
Maybe a shorter answer is that "some of us want the tag information to be right." I understand that some of us just want the information to look right, and don't care if it actually is right. However, Slimserver is currently implemented for the people in the first group.
Given that there are perfectly workable solutions already out there that will
accomplish the same thing,
This point fails to appreciate that the few hours invested to add the feature to the product (or, what I'd say... fixing a flaw in the design) will mean COUNTLESS hours saved by all of us meticulously "fixing" our tags. I went through my library of 8000 songs and it took an hour to fix all the tags. What a pain. And I didn't catch them all. Had to clear the cache/rescan. Multiply that by all the users and this issue seems so obvious to me. But... whatever, I didn't mean to start WWIII.
If you haven't at least tried to patch it yourself, you have no right, no capability, and no business trying to estimate how long it will take to fix. Writing software is a lot closer to brain surgery than it is to rebuilding a carburetor.
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