erland wrote: 
> I think I understand what you mean with art, but what do you mean with
> metadata ?
> 
> Would you expect it to find metadata even if your tags are a complete
> mess or non existent or are you looking for a way to find extra metadata
> which most people normally don't put into tags ? Can you give examples
> of what kind of data you would like to retrieve ?
> How would you like to metadata to be handled, is it something you
> manually select to retrieve/view for an individual item in your library
> or is it something you would even expect to be shown in the browse menus
> ?
> 
> Regarding album art, are we just talking about automatically retrieving
> album art for albums which doesn't have album art previously or were you
> thinking about a manual operation where you retrieve album art for a
> selected album/track ?

An example from yesterday. I ripped the "More Moondog" CD published by
WEA France in 1991. I had one of the CD databases return 1991 as the
release date. For me this is wrong. Release info is Prestige 1956,
remastered 1991. Further, this CD is a (hidden) combo: LP "The Story of
Moondog", Prestige 1957 has sneaked in as "bonus tracks" on this CD. 
So with the help of discogs I have split the CD in 2, set the
appropriate dates, and grabbed the original LP artwork (google image
helps here, too)

My tags are not in a mess. The music industry was: CDs were expected to
hold 60 minutes of music, so we end up with many nondescript
compilations, combos, or CDs where there are more "bonus tracks" than
there were tracks on the original recording. 
With the SB we are in the digital realm so I can fix this kind of
situation, and finally understand what I am listening to.

Another recent example. Miles Davis' soundtrack "Ascenseur pour
l'échafaud" on CD includes a ton of studio alternate takes, following
each master take. Listening to this CD was a bizarre experience… Finally
I compared the original LP tracklist and the CD reissue's, split the
files in 2, as "original LP" + "bonus studio takes". And for the first
time I could enjoy the LP thoroughly.


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