>the problem is his way isn't compatible with winamp, and lot of other apps. > >so its a personal preference on your part.
That's right. It is personal preference, and there isn't a right way (but there are probably some wrong ways!) of organising music. For me, SC is central to my music collection. I use it for playing music throughout the house, and for organising my music (eg. searching/finding items). I want the best experience I can get out of it. A lot of my music in my library is FLAC, so I don't have problems with those. I do use other apps, but they are inferior in functionality and serve less purpose for me, so I don't worry as much about how music is presented in their libraries. I don't have all that many albums with guest performers, so don't need too many occurrances of Album Artist tags. I only use album artist tags when they are needed. eg. I use Foobar as a local player for the desktop PC (that also supports TXXX ALBUMARTIST), but I don't have a need to scan and organise music in a library within FooBar - it is purely my default player for files opened in Windows. I use iTunes, but only for syncing music to an iPod Nano for playing random songs in the car, so I am also generally unconcerned as to how the music library is presented in iTunes itself. iTunes music library is broken in other ways, anyway. BTW, MusicIP, which many people like to integrate with SC, does not support album artist at all. i.e. TPE2 is read only as Band/Orchestra, and appears as a column of data; it has no other meaning. Other people may like complete compatibility with other apps, or maybe do not wish to change tags, and thus a losing functionality to accomodate that way of working may be ideal for them. Phil _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
