eq72521;516164 Wrote: > The data I'm talking about does show up on a web query on musicbrainz, > and it also appears to come through the XML WebService API. On the web > page for each artist, it will show up in normal font two lines below the > big bold header of the normalized artist name. For instance: > > Tom Waits -> Waits, Tom > http://musicbrainz.org/release-group/35c9a4b0-d4dd-3e6f-87fd-2185519296e2.html > > The Who -> Who, The > http://musicbrainz.org/artist/9fdaa16b-a6c4-4831-b87c-bc9ca8ce7eaa.html > > Ben Harper and Relentless7 -> Harper, Ben and Relentless7 > http://musicbrainz.org/artist/91636f0e-163c-4b8c-a355-d5127998d51f.html > > Alasdair Fraser & Natalie Haas -> Fraser, Alasdair & Haas, Natalie > http://musicbrainz.org/artist/37c81427-68cf-4b5e-b54a-aaf42749ac97.html > > So what I'm after would just be a matter of using the latter version of > the name as the artist folder (to get a natural sort with `ls`), rather > than the former (iTunes style). It's noted in the API documentation > at: > > http://musicbrainz.org/doc/XMLWebService#The_Artist_Class > http://musicbrainz.org/doc/Artist_Sort_Name > > It does seems though that I may be the only person in the world > interested in this, so I can certainly just install the software and > patch it myself (at which time I'd be asking about the process for > submitting a patch).
I just wanted to check that you knew Squeezebox server will use these tags and show music organised using them in search mode, but the browse music will still show the original folder structure. Dave -- DaveWr ------------------------------------------------------------------------ DaveWr's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9331 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=75051 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
