ceejay> I'd be careful with taking the composer out of the album name. > Suppose you have recordings of both Beethoven and Brahms > Symphony 1, conducted by Karajan. So you go looking for > music by Karajan and find two "Symphony no. 1" - > which is which?
ceejay> I'd strongly recommend having an Album name along the lines of: > Beethoven Symp 1, Op xx - Karajan - Berlin Phil - 1978 Your example is a good one. If I have the server add Composer tags to the Artist tags, I'll be coming to the second stage of the browse in two different ways: 1) I've selected the Composer and don't need to display it but I probably need to see the Conductor/Orchestra/Soloist in the album title. or 2) I selected the Conductor/Orchestra/Soloist and don't need to see that in the album title but I need to see the Composer. If I put both Composer and Conductor... into the Album title, it is likely to require horizontal scrolling to distinguish things. And typing the initial letter may not help if I've already selected on that tag. ceejay> I can also recommend the use of the Lazy Search plugin for > finding things quickly. I don't see it on the list in server settings/ plugins. I'll look that up. I have discovered that I can type one letter to jump to the appropriate part of the list. ceejay> I gather you are using iTunes to rip to MP3. This is IMHO a > VERY bad idea. You can't, AFAIK, get proper gapless this way. > I would strongly recommend using EAC to rip to FLAC - you > will also get better audio quality this way. I'm mostly making MP3 and AAC files rather than ALAC or FLAC because I'm in an experiment phase and I don't have room on my laptop. When I see a decent solution, I'll be in the market for a Terabyte plus of storage. I did make an effort to install and use EAC. Having to track down the correct versions of EAC, LAME and the FLAC encoder is a pain. Trying to get the right info on using them is a pain. My favorite piece of advice is the usual reply when someone asks how to produce FLAC files from EAC: the person asking is directed to a writeup on producing MP3 with EAC. I set it all up and produced FLAC files with no tags and meaningless file names. I've read hundreds of threads about EAC versus other ripping s/w and understand the issues. (I spent 30 years writing low-level software such as network node code, real-time kernels, device drivers and Windows kernel software.) I'm looking for a well-thought out product and not a major hobby project. ceejay> In the meantime I've been looking into the issues around > searching by composer etc and will be posting a separate > query on this one. I saw it. You are moving fast. Gorstk> This is becuase slimserver does not know what order to > play the songs. I understand now. When I ripped and tagged these two performances, I didn't know how Slimserver would use the tags. It does lengthen the album list to put composer and artist into the album tag. Gorstk>2. use smaller text on the display (press the size button) Good idea. No more lines than before by more characters per line. Gorstk>3. put the important info at the start of the title Well, as I discussed above, what's important depends on what you have already selected. ---- As I try things out and discuss what I'm finding, I get more convinced that the series of decisions I discussed earlier in the thread are closely connected and need to be documented as a whole. Thanks again for the responses from both of you. Bill -- Listener ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Listener's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2508 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18649 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
