Listener Wrote: > Bill> It is fairly common for the tags to be different for tracks > > on one classical CD. ... > > You might be careful to creat a different album name for each > > work but not everyone knows to do that or will make the > > effort. It isn't a safe assumption for SS to make. > > > I'm going to disagree here... I think we have to state the > > asusmption that the music has been tagged correctly, > > which I take to mean with one Album per Piece (NOT CD). > > Apart from anything else, ALL other computer music players > > work on an assumption that the basic collection of tracks > > is an Album, so if you want to play this music on any > > other player, you are going to want it tagged this way. > > I have been using iTunes, Foobar and MusikCube on a daily basis for > some time and see NO evidence that they work on this assumption. Each > of these players displays a list of tracks in rows with tag values in > columns. I select tracks and perform some operation on them. It works > fine when the other tags are noit the same for all the tracks with the > same album value. > > > I for one really don't want differently tagged music for > > different players (and I really do use several). > > What other players do you use? > >
OK, two different assumptions at work here. (1) other tags not the same for all tracks with the same album value ... agreed, this is not a problem. I think we have established some good examples (songs) where you can have an album where one of the tags (certainly performer, possibly genre) might vary from one track to another. (2) the assumption I think we should enforce for classical music... that "album" is set consistently for a Piece (eg Symphony). I use iTunes, and Foobar, and MusicMagicMixer, as well as Slimserver, Softsqueeze and Squeezeboxes. And if you want to play, say, a Symphony in iTunes then by far the easiest option is to search by Artist and then Album. I really do not want to be fiddling with sets of tracks to make up the Symphony, or to be selecting ones from a CD. This is why I think "Album" is so important - it comes naturally not just to Slimserver in its current state, but also to other players as well. Fortunately I don't think this needs distract us too much - I think we've nearly agreed on what will work, and it should be a strength rather than a weakness that the scheme can be used in more than one way. Unfortunately its my bedtime now (I don't know which time zone you're in!) so I need to sign off. If you feel like writing up a new version of the enhancement request I posted, please do! Regards Ceejay. -- ceejay ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ceejay's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=148 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18767 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
