Pat Farrell wrote:
It is not about the name or title. And it is not associated with the
specific track/song
all info concerning CDDB ID acknowledged. fit w/ what i know about it.
i'm not sure the CDDB ID is the best SS-AlbumID candidate, but i do
think the approach has merit.
problems with using CDDB directly include all of it's warts: needs
external access, requires writing to a track's tag data, is only best
gathered at CD Rip time, may be missing in many files, and may not be in
a standard tag.
what i was thinking of would be more of an analogue of that approach,
implemented in SS. while scanning tags, SS would look at a minimally
sufficient amount of tag and pathname data to identify albums. some
rules might need to fire to use different seed data for certain variants
(ex: if composer not null use composer, if compilation ignore artist,
etc). some condenation or has of this reviewed data could be stored in
the SS DB. it wouldn't make a good candidate Albums PK, but could prove
useful in doing 'SELECT DISTINCT's.
it would still depend on having pretty tight tags, but that's unavoidable.
just thinking out loud.
--rt
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