>The whole discussion boils down to the fact that the various tagging >specifications are all somewhat inadequate by a number of measures, and >that many applications implement those specifications in quirky, >nonstandard ways. > >As a result, many people have collections that, while technically >mistagged, happen to work quite well in whatever music management >software they've been using. When they start using SqueezeCenter, >which in my opinion stays pretty close to the defined tagging specs, >their tagging quirks are revealed, sometimes unpleasantly. > This is quite true.
>The rest is just an argument over whose fault this is and who should >make the effort to fix it. > I believe that SC currently copes with many different ways people could have tagged their music collection. It supports all required standard tags, supports non-standard tags, and allows standard tags to be used in out-of-standard ways. The most crucial missing element is clear documentation. There's loads of forum threads, responding to peoples library/tagging problems, often ending in satisfactory results, and most of this could be alleviated if the settings were clearer, if there was more help (eg. in the tool-tips for the settings), if there were some form of user guide, and/or there were nice wiki pages that captured these common issues. Only Logitech can change the code/labelling in the WebUI settings and produce official user guides. But the community can help by making notes in wiki pages. Another problem I see is that often "bugs" are raised that are not actually bugs, or are not clearly stated what is wrong. It must be hard for the developers to decipher all the requests to work out what should actually be changed. I feel that in reality there is is very little wrong with the tagging support/options in place - perhaps there are a few enhancements to allow people to use the library in different ways, but generally there are not many actual bugs. Phil _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
